NY 2016

SSCS Gift

Finally it was opening day on Christmas Day to see what was in that wonderful parcel sent to me in the SSCS swap hosted by the lovely Chookyblue.

My beautiful gift

from Martina.  I love it. The embroidery on the bird is fabulous. Behind the bird is a pocket which held the cute notepad & pen. Sorry for the crap photo. The purples look so much better in real life.

My partner to send to was Steffi. This is what i sent her for the ornament

& for the main present

Happy Stitching,

Xmas 2015

FNSI

Started the embroidery on the final owl for the wallhanging last night.

Pop over to Wendy's, our lovely hostess to see what all the other Elves got up to last night.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night With Friends.

Sadly not a lot happened on my Friday night stitching. Or during my week for that matter, :(

All i managed last night was to finish off the leaves on the owl stitchery & start a new one.

Pop over to our lovely hostess Cheryll for links to see what everyone got up to last night.

Happy Stitching,

SSCS 2015

This year i joined Chookyblue again for the Secret Santa swap. Last week my parcel too...... in ......made it in the post. It's winging it's way to it's new home as i type.

This week my parcel from Martina in Switzerland arrived. So exciting.

Thanks Martina for my gorgeous ornament & the very cute tin it came in.

Happy Stitching,

Last Week

Not a lot of crafting happened last week as the weather was just to hot. Sunday i made a tablerunner &  then i spent Tuesday quilting it.

It's quite large & i had difficulty in getting a decent photo of it. it was a Secret Santa gift at our Sunday Stitchers.

Also on Tuesday i cut out a pile of scraps ready to make pineapple table runners.

The result on Wednesday:

1 & 1/2 table runners done.

Even at night it's been too hot to stitch so little progress has been made on my owls. Most of what has been done since i last posted was done yesterday at Sunday Stitchers.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI

I actually managed to join in yesterday for change. :) I started early. I backed, quilted & bound a gift.

Can't show it all as it is a Secret. Hand sewed the binding down last night.

 I'd finished 3 stitcheries from my previous post during the week so i cut the felt for those & started stitching them together last night.

On a roll i cut out fabrics for a table runner but that is where it ends. I had a little visitor & by they time they left it was too hot to sew.

I'm going to sew it together today.

During the week i caught up on  my  pineapple blocks as well. Big marathon sewing day Tuesday.

I was here at lunch time.

& all the coloured rows added by about 9 pm. There is a lot of work there for 70 blocks. The plain row can be chain pieced which  makes it so much faster.

 Wednesday saw me adding the "ears" & 2 blocks together.

I started stitching my owls during the week too.

Pop over to our lovely hostess Wendy to find links to who joined in  last night.

Happy Stitching,

What i've been up to.

I didn't post last week due to illness & then being away for the weekend. I finished the dinosaurs the week before & my GS loves them.

weird little critters.

I've gotten behind on my pineapple quilt.

I should've had another coloured row added here.

 This last week i've gotten the coloured row added but i'm now 2 rows behind my SIL. I need to add them by next Wednesday so we can add the rabbit ears & start sewing blocks together.

I've been doing embroidery at night. Started with this deer

but i've  put it aside for these stitcheries which i need for  a present

During the week when i prepared these i also prepared these owl stitcheries for my daughters present.

 Crappy shot. Tried several times to get a good photo. They are iron on transfers that didn't go very dark & it's a dull wet day.

These already were ironed on, i just added the stabiliser at the back ready to start stitching.

Happy Stitching,

Sewing Week

Sunday i thought i'd better start strippin.....

...for my pineapple quilt of course. :) Then i prepared the bit's & pieces needed for 6 ornies

The next 2 evenings were spent on those

Tuesday i was to sew the cream rows on the pineapple blocks ready for Wednesday sewing at my SIL's. Doing it this way so the quilt is done quickly.

Wednesday the scrappy borders were added,

That is all i've done with sewing this week except yesterday when i cut out these cute little fellows

We use compost in the pot plants as well as potting mix & tomatoes came up in quite a few pots. I let them go to see what i'd get

large, cherry & egg tomatoes have fruited. So many tomatoes have formed which makes me happy. So tasty as well.

 Happy Stitching,

A sew sew week

I think my sewjo has headed off to have a holiday. Wish it would come back & take me with it. :) All i did this week was

finish this gingie,

 & made a start on the last 4 blocks in Jenny's free Xmas bom.

Wednesday i spent all day add the next round to 70 pineapple blocks

Thinking i should have made a smaller quilt. :) Need to cut & sew more strips now to catch up to my SIL for next Wesdnesday.

Happy Stitching