FNwF September.

 I started FNwF by going to the patchwork shop

these came home with me. :). Then off to the quilt show. Lots of lovely quilts on display. Sorry no photo's. I did see a churn dash there by a lady i know who did the sew along with Chooky. It was nice to see it in real life.

Also there was a little knick knack stall, book stall, plant stall & a hand made goods stall/s. Also on offer was tea, coffee & cake. Whilst chatting to a lady i know & browsed the hand made goodies on sale & found this

I've been wanting a clapper for a while. So glad to have found one locally. It's quite heavy so i better be careful i don't drop it on my toe. lol

For my sewing i stitched the binding on this quilt.

Not much left, just this corner & about half way along the bottom edge to do. Oh & sew down the hanging sleeve & label. :)

Pop over to visit Cheryll out lovely hostess so see who joined in for FNwF.

Happy Stitching,

Churn Dash....

 .......is done. I finished the binding Wednesday night & gave it a wash yesterday. It feels all nice & soft now. :) Started as sew along June 2022 by Chookyblue i did get the top finished by October. Beautiful quilting by Fiona was recently done.

Now i'm off to a local quilt show before doing some stitching for FNwF.

Happy Stitching,

Tail Feather....

 ..... is done finally. I started stitching the applique & embroidery about 2014, stopped & started again early 2016. I started putting rows together June 2016. That was it until i saw a finished one on Instagram back in 2020 & thought "time to get it finished off". After putting all the blocks together i went to add borders & found i didn't have the fabric. Grrr. A quick post online & a good friend said she had the matching fabric. Yay, i was so thankful. May 2020 saw Tail Feathers as a flimsy.

A while back i sent it away to Fiona to work her quilting magic. Back it came beautifully quilted & i finally sat myself down 2 evenings ago to start hand stitching the binding down.

After a wash & dry it is now hanging in the dining room. Now to finish binding the churn dash quilt. :)

Happy Stitching,

Another jigsaw done.

 A new jigsaw arrived on Tuesday. I started it that day & was just pottering at it but today i had a helper & it was completed before i had planned for it. :)

Happy Stitching,

FNSI August

 My day for FNSI started early. I put binding on 3 large quilts

I stacked them ready to take a photo & someone thought they were for her. Anyway they are ready for a binge session on Netflix/Disney to handsew those bindings.

Next i pulled 2 Christmas stitcheries out of my basket of small ufo's to complete

Then a Zoom session last night with Chookyblue saw those bindings handstitched down

Now to see what is next on the list to finish. :)

Pop over here to visit our lovely hostess Wendy to see who joined in last night

Happy Stitching,

quilt jigsaw

 The latest 100 piece jigsaw arrived yesterday but i didn't realise when ordering it that the pieces are super sized. I only found out when reading the box. When laying out the border i discovered just how large it would be. Almost double the size of my regular 1000 piece puzzles.

Happy Stitching,

When life gives you lemons.......

your make lemon meringue pie. :) :)

and it hardly made a dent in the basketful. I think there is maybe 20-25 more lemons on the tree. I was going to make Limoncello until i saw how much the vodka had gone up in price. :(

It's a lovely sunny day here, more like summer than autumn so i thought i'd take some photo's of what is blooming in my garden

dahlias

osteospermums with sweet william in the photo above.

azaleas, 3 of them belonged to my Mum

some bulbs. Snowdrop from my Mum's garden(top photo) & a jonquil i've given a try this year.

can't remember the name of this bush but i love the little flowers one it. 

And lastly a little surprise for me, a sweet pea bloom. When i watered the other day i didn't notice any buds so it was a happy find in my little garden. I didn't think i'd get any as i was rather lax in planting out so of the punnet only 2 survived. The flowering one has grown maybe 15" but the other has only grown about 6". 

Happy Stitching,

FNwF August

 It was FNwF yesterday hosted by Cheryll.  I decided to make the RSC blocks for August, yellow fabrics having been chosen earlier in the week i started with the bowties. 

Those 6 finished & as i'm pressing them thought "hmmm something is wrong with these" Darn i made white bow ties not yellow ones. :( Now to find a use for them.

 Back to the cutting mat i go making sure i cut 2" yellow squares this time. :)

Those correctly done i moved on to making the churn dash blocks. No wrong cutting with those but i did only cut 2 yellow rectangles per block instead of 4. :) I was beginning to think i shouldn't have been sewing at all. That being an easy fix i proceeded with sewing.

By that time i'd had enough of sewing. Lol.  I just pottered around for a while & then in the evening i started the 2nd Christmas hanging that arrived yesterday morning. From Fig n Berry creations Christmas club.

Pop over here to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

quilt jigsaw

 I started the last of my quilt jigsaws sometime Wednesday & had almost all the bottom 1/4 done by the time i went to bed. Yesterday afternoon/evening was spent completing it.

Now i better get back to making my own quilts instead of doing jigsaws about them. :) As the new Homespun is out i'd better get the blocks done for Owl & Hare Hollow.

Happy Stitching,

Jigsaws

 A couple of years back i started a jigsaw but put it away for some reason, then i lost the use of my dining table/room for a year or so but the other day i finally got the table/room back. Hmm i think i'll get that jigsaw out & finally finish it off. I think i had about a 1/4 done when put away. It took 2 days & a bit of frustration with the top left corner but it is done!!

Now to do the last one of a range of quilt jigsaws i bought about 4 years ago.

Happy Stitching,

a nice surprise

 Watering my pot plants today i found that my daffodils had started to flower.

First one in quite a while. I used to grow bulbs many years ago but lost most of them over time from moving house/s. This year my sister & i discussed planting bulbs on Mum's gravesite & i got the urge to try growing bulbs again. It looks like all the bulbs i planted are sprouting. :) Now to wait patiently for the jonquils, freesias & a variety of others to bloom.

The second surprise was from a Zygo i had bought a few months back. One bloom & a couple of others getting ready to open.

Even though spring is still a month away it was nice to see something that reminds me of spring coming to life.

Happy Stitching,