Chookshed Stitchers Challenge #10 & RSC blocks.

 Last minute sewing saw the Karma quilt done. It looked like this at the start of the month

yesterday i added to borders, quilted it & sewed the binding down

I made my blue circles & cracker box blocks earlier in the week

& the baskets yesterday

I've been making 1/2" hexie diamonds

and prepping Lucy blocks but i forgot to take photos of them laid out. :)

Now to find up the aqua fabrics & wait for next months challenge number.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI June

 I had planned to sew for FNSI but i really lack any enthusiasm to sit & sew. I pottered around for a while then dragged out the Lucy box to prep some more blocks. Some yummy fabrics had arrived during the week that i wanted to add into the blocks.

I got this block done

Started this one when interrupted by my brother in his search for a new house (he doesn't have internet)

Then the day went down hill. The dog needed to see the vet & the news was not good.

Here we are waiting for my daughter to get to the vets from work to make the decision on what to do. Sadly it was decided to put Nymeria to sleep. She was 11 years old. :( :(.

So the above block was finished when i made it back home. I only had 6 blues to make.

I started 3rd block but the sad day caught up with me & i went to bed.

Pop over here to visit our lovely host Wendy to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

Lucy Boston

 I finished the last of the five prepped in the last zoom i was on & wanted to lay them out to see how many more i need to make to fit a queen size bed. I have 30 so maybe another 10 or more. I'd better get cracking on making the filler blocks up too. :)

Trying to get a decent photo was a little hard. Especially when the dog & cat decided they need to walk through. :)

Happy Stitching,

nine patch catch up.....

 ........again. :)

Weeks 20 & 21

Plus another bowl cosy yesterday

Watering the garden the other day & discovered what i thought was a weed growing in amongst my bulb. On closer inspection it turned out to be a lonely little sweet pea plant.

When the ones i planted last year developed a seed i left it there to burst open & spread seed for this year. I hadn't seen any so thought that wasn't a success so seeing this little one growing made me happy. :)

Found a zygo i had bought last year had burst into bloom

one of Mum's Zygos has flowers forming so i'd better keep an eye on it. 

Happy Stitching,

FNwF June

 It was a wee bit cold yesterday which creates havoc with my osteoarthritis so i just faffed around. Time to clear out the baskets i throw scraps in beside the cutting table & put them into the designated colour baskets & the wadding scraps got good clean out too. :)

After that i made another bowl cosy. I wasn't happy with the first one. This time i cut the squares at 9-1/2" & the wadding at 9" & only used 1 piece of wadding. It went together much better & hold the bowl more snuggly than the 10" square did even with the double wadding that was in it.

Lucy was my project for the evening. I started here

and finished here

Pop over here to see who joined in. Thanks Cheryl for hosting us once again.

Happy Stitching,

a wonderful zoom day

 Despite being cold & dreary i got up early, fed the cats, made a cup of tea, grabbed my projects & jumped onto zoom to join Chooky in celebrating the Chooksheds 12th birthday.

I spent my day prepping Lucy blocks

Then in the evening i finished adding a row on 1 side & the last 4 on 1 end of this little piece.

Just random 1/2" hexies i acquired somehow. They had been tacked onto home cut papers & didn't go together well so i took them apart & used bought papers to fix them up. I added a few fabrics of my own to them. No idea to them just randomly sewed in rows. I'll trim them now & add a couple of borders to make a runner.

Thanks to Chooky & the lovely ladies who joined in yesterday for the wonderful day of chatting.

Happy Stitching,

Chookshed Stitchers challenge June......

......... is number 10. For me that is to quilt my Karma quilt. Fortunately it's only doll size. :) 

Happy Stitching,

RSC May

 Just scraping in with my blocks for this months RSC.

Now to get out some blue fabrics ready for June.

Happy Stitching,

Chookshed Stitcher's Challenge #5 update

 Monday saw the borders going on my project for the challenge & that was some fun & games. :) Then i glue basted it & left it overnight to dry. Tuesday i was all set for a day of quilting & binding. By night time i was done.:)  After that i could make a start on sewing this months RSC. :) Hopefully they'll be done by Friday.

My project went from this

to this

Freshly washed. I had to soak it because despite being packed away it had marks on it. I tipped the water out this morning after soaking overnight & imagine my horror when i saw the water was purplish. I hoped like crazy that i hadn't exchanged dirty marks for purple marks. It looks like a stain along the top but it isn't, it's just what is hanging behind on the clothesline.

I threw in a couple of dye catchers & they soaked up any dye that was there. 

Thanks Deana for the encouragement to get the pesky ufo's moving along out of the way. :) Now to wait for Junes number.

Happy Stitching,

Nine patch Sunday.

 I let myself get waaaayyy behind with the nine patches & kicked myself for doing so.  I had 60 blocks to make so yesterday i got stuck into them.

3-1/2"

2"

2"

Saturday night i pulled out the Christmas bom to finish the satin stitch. Not much was left but i was distracted by making Lucy blocks. :) :)

Now to trim & put together. I ran out of thread when i started doing the borders so i ordered 4 more skeins & i was getting a wee bit worried it wasn't enough as i was on the last skein by the time i'd done all 4 borders. Here is what is left.

I do use only one thread when stitching & 2 for french knots & satin stitch otherwise i would've needed 3 times the amount of skeins for the whole quilt.

Now to find a new project to stitch. :) :)

Happy Stitching

FNSI May

 The day started early for FNSI with me pulling out red, purple, pink & green fabrics to make cracker box blocks.

During a break i was reading blogs & Fiona posted about making bowl cosies. A good reminder that i'd been wanting to make some. Well 1 at least. :)

It won't win any prizes that's for sure. My machine did not like top stitching through all that thickness. Next time i'll follow the suggestion of making the wadding a wee bit smaller than the fabric. That suggestion should've been written at the top of the instructions not added in way at the bottom. :~

The evening saw me making another Lucy block.

Pop over here to see who joined in. Thankyou Wendy for hosting us again.

Happy Stitching,