2 more done

2 more quilts arrived back from Fiona Saturday. Yesterday i did the binding on both. Not to self  "do not bind 5 quilts in 3 days". It's bad for the osteo arthritis in my fingers/hands.

My hand pieced Trip Around The World & closeup of the beautiful quilting.

This one is from a paper piecing pack by Sue Daley. I bought it as a ufo on a destash site & i kept going hoping i'd use up all the fabrics the lady had cut. I still have green octagons left, i had to find up similar plain white fabric & was short 2 pinks so i added what i could find in my stash to blend in.

Happy Stitching,

Finished Quilts

These quilts have been waiting several months for the binding & despite the heat i sewed the bindings on Saturday morning & then proceeded to hand sew them down. I managed 1 quilt Saturday & 3/4's of the 2nd. I finished it & the 3rd last night. Now to bind the 2 quilts that arrived back from Fabulous Fiona on Saturday.

Ist quilt is Applique From The Guest House By Sue Daley. Followed by closeups of the beautiful quilting

The next quilt is Gossip In The Garden By Anni Downs of Hatched & Patched with closeups of several patterns Fiona used to quilt it.

3rd quilt is from several years back run as a quilt along on a friends blog called Charming Stars & another closeup of the quilting.

Happy Stitching,

Busy, busy week

Enough is enough i told myself this week, time to dredge up some desire to machine sew. I finished a number of things.

Advent calender for my youngest grandson, late i know.

His Christmas stocking. After that these 2 stitcheries

Both by Natalie Bird of The Birdhouse Designs. I really love these Christmas stitcheries Natalie puts out every year.

Next day i was back at it to finished off more projects

An Annie Downs of Hatched & Patched stitchery

A Gail Pan stitchery. It is supposed to be a cushion with a frame of triangles around the stitched part but i just went for a simple hanging. Next i finished my grandsons name swag.

The cute pattern is from Michelle Ridgway of Rag Tag Stitchin'.

 I had hoped to get binding on 3 quilts next before the next arrive back but it's been a wee bit hot & orthodontist appointments had to be seen to.

Wednesday & Thursday afternoon/evening saw me cutting & gluing the joining pieces for Icecream Soda. There is over 400 pieces in this bag.

Last night i made a start on joining the blocks up

I think i'm going to be here a while as it's very slow going. Well i'm off to try & get those bindings on the quilts.

Happy stitching,

FNwF December

Last night i joined Cheryll for the last Friday Night with Friends for 2017. I hope everyone joins in again in 2018.

I worked on my gingie embroidery. The 1st photo is where i was at from stitching Thursday

The 2nd photo is where i got to with my stitching last night before bed called me.

Not a lot left to do now.

Pop over to Cheryll to see what projects the lovely ladies who joined in worked on.

Happy stitching,

Just a little sewing

Not a lot happening here this week. Some secret sewing

it's a gift for a friend so that's all i can show until she gets it.

Also i pieced 2 backings to send 2 quilts off to my fabulous quilter to work her magic but i didn't think you need to see a photo of the backings :)

 I worked on my Coffin quilt

Not sure how many rows i added to the left side & top. Maybe 2 or 3 rows to each. But it is growing slowly.

This pattern arrived yesterday

so i made a start. :)

I love Natalie Bird's Christmas patterns & she has just released this one.

Happy Stitching,