Australia Day was overcast & rainy for me. A nice cool day to sit & sew. Chooky invited us to a zoom get together in the afternoon & it was lovely to chat with all the ladies who were able to join in.
I stitched my the hexies for the doll quilt i'm making. I had 9 left to do.
and these 2 last night. I now have all 12 i needed so today i'd better find what fabric i need to make the quilt. :)
Thanks ladies & Chooky for a pleasant afternoon.
Happy Stitching,
Yesterday Chooky hosted a short Zoom chat. as always it was lovely to join in chat to the lovely ladies from all over the world who regularly join & to see some new faces. We have had 3 Zoom chats this month which has been wonderful.
Whilst chatting i stitched my little Christmas stitchery.
I had just started doing the satin stitch when it was time to finish the Zoom chat. :). Whilst watching the tv last night i completed all the satin stitch. Now to decide what to turn the stitchery into.
Kathleen Tracy started a hexagon sew along on her Facebook group at the start of January. I had my fabrics chosen but until now didn't have time to start. I managed to make 2 last night & have a 3rd one done. It will be a 9 patch hexagon doll quilt.
Happy Stitching,
Wendy, our lovely hostess, is again running FNSI & last night was the first for 2022 & that sadly means January is almost gone. Thankyou Wendy for hosting us again.
I really didn't know what i wanted to do yesterday. Start my dolls quilt, work on ufo's start something new? endless possibilities. In the end i didn't do a lot.
I made a Christmas quilt some years back & when i put the top together i realised out of the 25 blocks for some reason i'd only done borders on 3 of them. I got the top out a few weeks back & started stitching those borders. I only had 1-1/2 left so i finished those off.
I had found up a small Christmas stitchery yesterday afternoon & prepared it ready to stitch last night.
Happy Stitching,
Finally after sewing on & off for 2 weeks the other 15 liners to go with the 2 in my last post are finally done. yay.
This all 17 of them in varying sizes. Most though were around 80cm x 48cm. I just hope my sister is happy with them.
Happy Stitching,
Here we are at our first FNwF for 2022 with thanks to Cheryll for hosting us again this year. Hard to believe Christmas has passed by again so quick & we are in 2022 already.
My sister had a new kitchen built last year & asked me to make mats to sit in the drawers. The fabric finally arrived as Christmas so yesterday i thought i'd better shift myself & get them made as there is 17 mats to do. Well i don't know if she miscalculated the fabric amount or i did with my cutting or a combo of both but i have run short of fabric.
I got these 2 finished yesterday. They measure 80cm by 48 cm. There are 8 of this size & i have another 4 ready to quilt & 1 cut out ready to baste. That is when i discovered not enough fabric to make 1 more of the large mats & the 9 smaller mats. Fortunately i have the grey homespun in my stash but not the aqua & the white. So a trip to Spottie's is in order to find those(cross fingers). Hopefully i can get the mats done quickly & posted away so i can get back to my own projects. :)
Pop over here to see who joined in & what projects they worked on.
Happy Stitching,
Last time my GS was over we started to make a small quilt for his bear. He chose 6 x 6" squares & sewed them together. Today he asked could he finish his little quilt. I found some wadding for him & a piece of backing. Last time i asked how he wanted to quilt it giving him a couple of options & he went with grid quilting.
So with GS pushing the pedal & me helping guide the quilt off we went. Left the drawn lines a couple of times but overall he was happy with it. Next was finding some binding. He went with a piece of aqua homespun i had leftover. I sewed that down for him as he thought that was bit more complicated than he was prepared for :). Rather than hand stitching the binding down i decided i'd have a go using the machine to do it. I wasn't that keen on my first attempt at it but GS was happy so all is well.
Well here we are at the last FNSI for 2021, 1 week away from Christmas & 2 weeks away from 2022.
Thanks to Wendy for hosting FNSI throughout the year.
For FNSI yesterday i finally got to sit & finish my GD's Christmas present.
Next was to make a 10 minute table runner. I bought this kit many years ago & in my cleaning & sorting i found it & decided to get it made this year.
Well here we are the final FWnF for 2021. Boy that time has just flown by. Thankyou to Cheryll for hosting us all again this year. I look forward to more sewing nights in 2022.
I had plans of what i wanted to sew but woke up not in the best of moods so i read most pf the day instead. In the evening i didn't feel like stitching any projects that i'm currently working on so what to do?
Oh i know i will start the project that just arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon. My son had asked me what i wanted for my birthday & i had told him i didn't want anything. Then a day or so later Marg Low Designs posted about her latest pattern/kit & i sent my son the link & said you can get me this. Instead he gave me the money to order it. :)
Getting the 6 little stitcheries traced out, 1 completed & the 2nd nearly done was how i spent my evening.
Pop over here to find links to who joined in last night.
Happy Stitching,
The day of sewing started fairly early making blocks. 1st up was block 24 for Sewcialites It took a little longer than i hoped. Next weeks ...
