Lets Celebrate Swap Gift

My lovely parcel arrived yesterday from Lyn, my partner in Mrs Martin's Lets Celebrate swap.

I received a gorgeous purple mug rug, Rum & Raisin Tim Tams & coffee.

Happy Stitching,

1 Xmas Item

Late again this month i know but i've finished the "Christmas" swag.

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Fruits Of My Labours

Yesterday i spent cooking. I'd been to my Mum's recently & picked up oranges & blood oranges on the way home i bought limes & Tangelos. Then last Thursday i came back from the shops to discover 3 bags of citrus on my door step. Still a mystery as to who left them there. In the bags were lemons, lemonade fruit, limes & Tangelos. I've still got the marmalades/jams to make.

Preserved lemons, Limoncello, blood orange butter & lime butter. Not sure how the preserved lemons will go as it's a new recipe i decided to try.

Happy Stitching,

Let's Celebrate Swap

This month our swap was to make a mug rug & include a yummy recipe. I showed you a sneaky peek last post & Lyn(no blog) has let me know she has received her goodies so i can now show it. Not a good photo i know but my camera has decided to play up.

I included some teabags in the pocket along with Tim Tams & the recipe was for a Caramel Slice.

Happy Stitching,

Finishes & sneak peeks.

I've made another scrap basket,

2 pincushions,

Showing 4 sides of the 2 pincushions i made for the Stitch-A-Long & the buttons on top.

The other 3 finishes i can only show a sneak peek as the are for swaps.

Time to get a new camera i think. Every photo i took this morning was blurry. I had to use zoom to get clear photos. Very frustrating.

Happy Stitching,

hexie day

My hexies this week are 1/2" ones for two pincushions i'm making.

I couldn't decide what colour i wanted as i do like the red pincushion but purple is my favourite colour so i'm making 2.

Happy Stitching,

Hexie Day

It's been quite a while since i posted about my progress with my Vignette Hexagon quilt. I'm pleased to say i've completed the flowers & have made a start on the embroidered "stepping stones".

I can't remember how many flowers the quilt needed but here is the stack of them.

Lovely flowers all in a row. :)

My start on the embroidery last night. I'd traced out 15 of the needed 59 stones ages ago. I think i got the leaves of 11 done last night. Still a long way to go.

Happy Stitching,

I'm all caught up.....

...on the stitcheries & applique at least from Fee's hexagon club. I still have to to turn them into hexagons. :) I had 8 months to catch up before month 9 arrives.

1 half of them,

2nd half of them. I discovered, much to my dismay, some of the Cottage Garden Threads i used ran. I'm hoping i can rid them of the dye later on when i've made the hexagons & can wash them.

The rest of my tennis/hostess sets arrived last week.

I didn't realise until i went to take a photo that these pair sit in the opposite direction to my other sets.

Another recent purchase was this

I've been wanting a pressure cooker for quite a while & recently Coles had them for $30. My daughter managed to get the last one at the Coles she works at. Yay for me. I tried the pea & ham soup recipe in the accompanying booklet & although it was tasty felt the ham hock didn't impart enough salt & we weren't keen on the green colour from the peas. I think i'll use the yellow split peas in future like i usually do & maybe add a little salt. Tonight i'm trying the meatball recipe.

Recently Loz posted about a mat for using with hand piecing. Took some finding but i found one.

It's a Matilda's Own non slip design mat. Also comes in A4 & will roll up so you can leave your piecing inside.

Happy Stitching,

I've lost the month of May.

As usual i had big sewing plans & as usual very little was done. All i have to show are 2 finishes. I had started putting together the bag for the Stitch A Long nearly 2 weeks ago & had gotten to the bag handles when my daughter asked if i'd like to go shopping. Well i chose shopping as i really didn't want to work on the bag anymore & there it sat until yesterday as time was running out.

My finished bag. I was debating whether to do the back like in the pattern & in the end i did.

The back of the bag has a gap cut into it & yes it has a Purple lining. :) My other finish is for 1 Xmas Item, late i know as it was supposed to be posted on the 25th.

A table mat from Gail Pan's Christmas book. I also completed 2 more stitcheries from "Christmas" banner.

only 2 more to do & i can mark that as finished.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI

After collecting the patterns for 8 months recently i finally started working on Fee's hexagon club. I've caught up on month 1 & 2 & last night started on month 3. There are 3 patterns a month. These are what i worked on last night.

The one on the left is still damp from washing my tracing pen out so the colours looks a bit dull.

Pop on over to Heidi's to see who else joined FNSI last night & what the worked on.

Happy Stitching,

quiltmakers 100 blocks

Recently Michelle posted about being in Quiltmakers 100 blocks & i was sent my very own copy by Michelle.

Signed as well. :)

Can't wait to make this block up. These goodies were included

bunny ears for the Valdani threads, yummy choccies, felt & my very own The Raspberry Rabbits pen. Wandering around my plants yesterday i found 4 bush lemons ready to pick & a lonely ripe cumquat. There are others on the tree not ripe & i'm keeping a careful eye on them. It's not my first cumquat by any means as i usually lose them to fruit fly. Grrr.

Happy Mother's Day,