Sashiko

 I finished the celtic Christmas tree last night. I've seen them with crystals added so i may do that before framing it.

Now i need a new project to stitch at night. :)

Happy Stitching

Santa is done & now......

......... onto a new project. But first is my little angel thingie which was also a freebie kit. I made it up before starting Santa. This was also a fun & games thing. I thought i'd achieved getting it into shape quite well but it had a slight accident when i was Christmas decorating.

Ta da Santa is done & dusted

and now for something completely different

a sashiko celtic Christmas tree. It is my first ever sashiko.  Now i just need to buy thread for my other sashiko project. :)

Happy Stitching

FNwF December

 I have this Santa cross stitch given as a freebie last year i think. Last weekend i made a start, zooming along real well i thought. I'd started in one area & wanted to continue using that colour so i counted carefully several times, or so i thought, the number of squares & merrily went on my way stitching. Bugger those areas didn't match. Unpick that first area & hope for the best again. Nope went to add another colour & Something not right still. About this time i was seriously considering binning the darn thing. It's not like this was my first cross stitch either. :)

So for FNwF hosted by Cheryll i was determined to get it done. I'd stitched quite a bit when i thought i should take a photo to post on Facebook FNwF. :)

Almost done

just a few stitches where the green thread is & then it is onto the black outlines.

I'd been worried my desert roses had carked it as they were taking a long time to get their leaves back. They'd all been nicely repotted & the stems weren't showing any die off so i couldn't figure what was wrong. Finally after weeks & weeks success leaves were appearing. I've been keeping a close eye for flowers but only 1 has flowered so far(i have 4 desert roses)

it has lots of blooms on it this year. This was the only open one. Cross fingers the other get flowers too. :)

Pop over here to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI November

 Thursday evening i traced out a Christmas stitchery to do

and made a start. Friday for FNSI i stitched some more

Recently i noticed a flower spike shooting up out of a bulb & thought it was a late flowering hippeastrum but to my surprise it turned out to be a spider lily

i was a wee bit excited to see it as it hasn't flowered in years & i thought i'd lost it.

The blood lilies have all bloomed & the look quite a sight

Thankyou to Wendy for hosting us again

Happy Stitching,

projects

 Although i'm enjoying sewing the little hexie project i felt i needed a break to do something else. :)

The hexies so far. Fabric on left is for the next round. 

I went looking in the kit box hoping i had something ready to go as i really didn't feel like doing any tracing or cutting. I found a pattern i'd bought several years back with a pre-printed panel. Perfect. Alas it was stitched with Cosmo threads so i had to spend quite a while finding DMC equivalents. 

I'd noticed that the blood lilies had blooms starting to form & 2 had broken out

several more coming up in this pot.

only 1 in this pot.

The hydrangea has flowered & looking quite pretty. 

Happy Stitching,

Lucy Boston

 Yesterday i laid out the Patchwork of the Crosses blocks to see how they look & to take a photo. A bit hard when there is so many blocks & a photobomber. This one was the best of all i took. :)

Now to start prepping all those squares to join the blocks together. :)

Happy Stitching,

FNwF November

 I started FNwF early as i was determined to get the 56th(& last) block of Lucy done. I started here

& it's finished. 

I may have started a new project. :) :)

Called Mrs Holder's Hexagons. I spotted it recently on Instagram & looked it up to find out it was a project from Temecula quilt company back in 2016. It's done in a concentric circle pattern & i'm using 1/2" hexies to make it.

This is the picture of it from Temecula quilt Company blog.

I spotted a flower forming on one of the hoyas i have

then happened to look up the tree where tendrils have taken themselves & spotted one which had opened.

Then after all the lovely rain(thunderstorms) i found a bloom on the on the crocus which has since had a 2nd bloom.

Pop over to hostess Cheryll's blog to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI part 2

 I had this little stitchery to finish so i started with that for FNSI.

Satin stitch all done

i moved onto starting another Lucy block

I noticed a stalk coming up from some potted bulbs & was happy to see a Jacobean lily bloom. i missed it last time as there was some gooseberry bushes covering it.

One of Mum's cactus has also burst into bloom

Thanks Wendy for hosting. Pop over here to see who joined in

Happy Stitching,

FNSI October

 For FNSI it was another Lucy block. Adding the white surrounds. This is where i was at Thursday night.

I remembered i needed to dig out some more white & cream fabrics to make up more & to have a bit more variety.

That done back to stitching

i had gotten this far when i kept nodding off so to bed for an early night i went. :)

Happy Stitching

Plodding along with Lucy

 I have the last 13 blocks prepped & have slowly been making them up.

another one in the works is almost done but all the previously made up white pieces were nearly all the same. I sewed on as many as i could & have spent the last few days making up more white pieces.

I'll be able to finish it tonight. :)

One hippie has flowered & i found another 2 spikes on bulbs in the same pot. You can see one just starting to open. Oh i just spotted a chook way over the back. :)

I was happy to see this orange one flowering this year

I thought Mum's mini rose was going to cark it. It was very straggly looking. I moved it to another spot which it must love as it has masses of new growth & a few flowers.

Happy Stitching,

FNwF October.

 EPP was the project for me for FNwF yesterday hosted by Cheryll. I had completed a Lucy block on Thursday & started to add the white surrounds.  That was completed last night.

Another Lucy started

One of the orchids i inherited has flowered. I have been watching it for weeks waiting for all those buds to burst into bloom. I was out putting the stuff in the bin when i noticed one had opened but by the time i went out later to take a photo quite a lot had burst open. Now the whole lot are open.

I had the GS over for a few days last weekend & he mentioned he hadn't been on a train ride. I'd been wanting to go to Bunnings so off we went to buy a few things. He was happy he had his train ride even if is was a very short one. Just one station along. :) 

I grabbed another punnet of petunias to plant as i had this pumpkin planter of Mums & thought it would look nice with the flowers in it.

I don't think the mystery of the citrus fruit will be solved this year as each time i've gone to check on them i've discovered stink bugs on the branches/leaves around the little fruits. Thanks to the blasted bugs that area is dying off. Oh well looks like its another wait for discovery.

Happy Stitching,