FNSI March

Last night was FNSI night hosted by our lovely Wendy. I joined in with a little stitching.

Another block from that long ago free bom. :) I have several completed now but still lots of block to stitch.

Pop over to Wendy's blog to see who joined in last night & what their chosen projects were.

Happy Stitching,

Found a little sewjo

Somehow I've lost my desire to create. Most nights I read with an occasional night stitching but time was running out to get my doll quilt finished to send.

Friday I cut out the binding & attached it.

One little quilt already to post away.

While i was there at the machine I finished the little Christmas item I got out last month to do but time got away on me.

This was a bonus project from Gail Pan's 2019 him.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night with Friends March

Last night I joined in FNwF hosted by our lovely Cheryll. Thankyou for having us Cheryll.

My project of choice was from a collection of stitcheries given for free once a week I think it was on a blog back in 2008.

I had collected fabric when the patterns were given to us to go with it thinking I'd stitch in a plum colour but when I got the patterns out last year to trace i didn't like my fabric choices. So redwork it is. 😊😊. As there wasn't a finishing pattern sashings & borders were left up to us so now I'll be looking at ideas as I stitch & hope I can use fabrics from my stash to put it together.

Pop over to Cheryll's blog to find out who joined in & what projects they worked on.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI February

Last night I joined in FNSI hosted by our lovely Wendy.

Not a lot done as I somehow irritated one of my eyes making it hard to see as it was very weepy. I stitched some of the embroidery on these little blocks before I gave up.

Pop over to Wendy's blog to see who joined in & what projects they worked on.

Happy Stitching,

Just for a laugh

Laughed so much just thought I'd share. 🤣🤣

Happy Stitching

Friday Night with Friends February

Yesterday I joined in FNwF & for once I actually got to sew all day. 😊😊. But who would've thought such a small object would take me all day. 🤣🤣.

Whilst sewing the shoo fly blocks together I found my companion like this

She looked so relaxed & comfy.

I finally finished the little quilt late afternoon

I'm  in a doll quilt swap & time is running out to get it made. So many things making it hard to make a start but at last a lovely cool day made it possible. Thanks to some lovely rain. 🌧🌧.

The last night I started hand quilting.

Pop over to Cheryll's blog  to find links to who joined in & what projects they worked on. Thankyou Cheryll for hosting us all.

Happy Stitching,

Medallions

My last medallion arrived today so I took a photo to see how they all look. I'm leaning towards using diamonds as the path to join them all together.

The left 3 x 4 rows are the blocks sent to me, the 3 x 4 rows with the watermark are the ones i made.

 Happy Stitching,

2 little finishes

I finally got back to my daisy table mat from a few posts ago. All I needed to do was iron the backing on, trim to size & then stitch the 2 pieces together. Not real happy with it as the backing kept fraying. I'm lucky the wool front didn't.

Still it looks good & I'm so glad that the kit I bought so long ago is now finished & not still languishing in a box.

Next I finished up a little bonus project from the Christmas BOM I was doing last year.

It will just be a decorative teatowl.

Happy Stitching,

Medallions

January nearly got away from me to sew my medallion for this month as i just haven't had any motivation. But i got my skates on & made them up before the month ended.

Whilst I was making them I decided to get February out of the way.

The swap is now finished for me & once I receive my last block this week(I was sent February block early) I'll be able to work out a layout for the blocks.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI January

Last night I joined in with FNSI. My project of choice was another cone shaped pin cushion.

They are such cute pincushions.

Pop over to visit our lovely hostess Wendy to find the links to who joined in & the projects worked on.

Happy Stitching,

Border Ranges Fire

My daughter had asked me that if it was possible could i take some photo's to show her the devastation of the Border Trail/Ranges fire that so nearly came to wiping out my hometown but thanks to the valiant effort of the firies in that area from both sides of the border it didn't. Not a lot of places to stop along that twisty windy road as one side is mountain & the other drops off into vallies. We stopped where there was a little layby & the area around the road is open farmland & i could look back along the area. These photo's just show a small amount of the fire that swept through that area & raged for weeks.

This is one side of Mount Lindsay, the burnt side but with that bit of rain around Christmas you can see the paddock is greening along with the trees going up the mount. As you follow the road around the mountain the other side was untouched by fire.

 Looking north towards Boonah, Qld way i guess.

                                   
                                     
 Not sure if this one has a name but you can see all the burnt trees on it. All these photo's are taken on the Queensland side of the Border Trail/Range.

 We are looking back south towards my hometown many kilometres away.

 All along this highway there was evidence of trees having to be cut down as they were too dangerous to leave. Piles upon piles were stacked up in the paddocks beside the road.

Along the way there was a spot i wished we could have stopped & taken a photo. It was in one of those areas where you just couldn't pull up as it was an area with drop offs one side, mountain the other. In all my years of travelling to & fro down that road we've not really been able to see through because off all the rubbish in the undergrowth, By rubbish i don't mean litter thrown out by people I mean scrub. But this particular spot as we passed by i said to my brother "would you look at that, we can see miles & miles across that valley now". It was such a shock as i never knew that view was there through the trees.

Happy Stitching,