3rd week of April

Second block of Caswell quilt is done.....

Thanks to Michelle and Marina for the enabling .... and support....

My local group UFO for this month was to finish off my Sashiko panels into something.... I found some suitable fabric in my stash and made them up into these table toppers.... they are quilted too but in a matching colour so you can't really see it...

Binding was done at my Tuesday sewing day and then I went on a made up a couple of hexagon flowers....

In the evenings I have been knitting and crocheting.... this little jumper was finished....

It has little poppers on the back for fastening.... I think it will fit a 1 - 2 year old

I did find I needed to concentrate a bit for the pattern especially whilst increasing for the sleeve but happy with the result....

That's my crafting week.... 

Righto, Gotto Go..... I started some bags a couple of weeks ago and would like to get them done and out of the way....

Have a lovely weekend....xx

Second Week of April

Another busy week and I end up feeling pleased that I actually fitted in a grocery shop!  But happy kind of busy I need to say, a lot of sewing with friends...

I had a trip to Warwick last week to a Patchwork shop having a closing down sale (the owners are retiring) and a few background fabrics were purchased but basically it was a fun day out with friends and included a yummy lunch.

This week has been quilt group, machine sewing at my place, embroidery group .... 

I have all my Blessings blocks prepared (except for the last one which can only be done when the others are together) and I started the machine blanket stitch around the edge at my machine sewing day.  Slow going.

Quilt group saw 2 more of these hexagon flowers put together....

I finally finished off another group of Sashiko blocks .....

I quilted this quilt.... I used fabrics from Quilt club Community Quilts but did the piecing, quilting and binding.

The pattern is Star Pop by Quilty Love which I have used for myself a couple of times before.

The quilting was ribbon and stars.  Soft and non fussy.  It's a very bright quilt!

... and one more hexagon flower done at Embroidery group....

Some blocks have been crocheted and some knitting done for KOGO, and a bit of needleturn for Caswell...

.... and that was my week......

Days and nights are cooler, thank goodness.  Am enjoying reading the blogs and seeing what others are up to.... always new ideas....

Take care, have a lovely weekend and I hope you get some time doing something you love... xx

First week of April ....

This week nearly sneaked away without a blogpost!

Another hexagon flower has been put together.....

... and I hand-quilted then bound this little mini.  The hearts are designed by Meg at CrabAppleHill and were a free stitchalong for February - embroidery month.  I sewed along with a few of the Brisbane stitchers and its been fun seeing the different versions...

This  will fit in my mini stand.... or on the wall....

A couple more blocks for the Blessings quilt have been prepped up....

Whilst cleaning up I found these little wool penguin jumpers I knitted up a few years ago.  I had started them to be used for the Fairy Penguins on Philip Island when they need a bit of help but then the organisation said they didn't need any more.  Anyway I see on the website they are taking some in to add on to plushy toys so I will send them off.  Rather a sweet idea and they are very very cute little penguins (even if they didn't bother to appear when we went and sat in the hail and rain and cold to see them)

Hubz had a birthday on Easter Sunday so I baked a cake and friends and family came over...  

We also went to Eclipse light show which was great fun ....

I quilted and bound the blue flannel rail-fence quilt....

An overall fairly open quilting...

The backing was pieced with left over flannel ......

the quilting shows better on the plain areas...

It's gone into the cupboard to go off to Melbourne in due course..... where it gets cold in Winter and this will be nice and snug....

Righto, Gotto Go.... I have another block for Caswell on the go and would like to get a few leaves on tonight...  have a lovely weekend...x

End of March ......

This week I have been working on various UFO's that I found during my tidy up....

This was a kit I purchased from a destasher some years ago..... so I have been tracing out, ironing on, cutting out, sticking on ........

I am just making up the blocks then I will blanket stitch on the machine when I get the chance with different colour threads....

I will hand embroider details like eyes (instead of buttons)

A couple of weeks ago at machine sewing day I put together these rail fence blocks... this week I sewed up the rows and added a border, pieced up a backing from left over flannel and made the binding.  I do need to get this finished in the next month so will need to find some quilting time for it...

Yay, I have started putting my Field Journal 'flowers' together.  As you can see I have used a different fabric to frame the inside but kept the middle the same as the embroidery frames to try and keep some consistency.

I had to unpick one of the brown coloured ones as it was not facing the direction I wanted!  

A small Easter display is on my fireplace, Michelle sends lovely cards so I have been keeping them as part of my decor .....

Hubz has a birthday on Easter Sunday this year and local daughter bought 2 tickets for this event for his pressie.  I love how she used the Advert to make up a personalised card (with us in it!)

I am hoping the rain is finished so it is a nice evening to wander around - I think it will be fun....

I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend doing something you enjoy - and perhaps a bit of nice chocolate.

Righto, Gotto Go, part of my tidy up is using up some 'curtain' fabric I have been hoarding saving and making up bags (luckily not too many pieces) - so I am cutting them to size, ordered some mesh and pressing linings..... This tidying up creates a lot of extra work!  I do wonder why I don't just go and drop it off at the Op Shop for someone else to hoard! - would be cheaper!

Better get back to it!

Third week of March

I don't know where last week went.... but it's gone ..... and I'll never get it back!

I made good progress on self binding hexagons...

And I completed the first block for my new start Caswell quilt.....  I'm going to love doing it ....

... and another hexagon group....

I have 21 sets of 6 framed hexagons now.... and I will start joining colours to make centres next.... those will be made from fabrics I have used already in framing....

and I have purchased some light grunge for the centres of the hexagons to join them up... and my favourite quilt shop is ordering in some of the right colour teal for me.......  

Then all the joining of the framed hexagons needs to begin...... this is crazy but it will end up as a completely hand made quilt....

We did purchase shelving for my little storage room.... which meant taking out a whole lot of stuff to put the shelves up, and I am slowly moving stuff back in - it's a total mess!  So of course I am sorting out one of the scrap boxes just to procrastinate doing what really needs to be done!

Righto, Gotto Go.... things to do, tidying to avoid, coffee to drink....  

Have a lovely weekend......xx

Second week of March

... another week has flown by.....

Crochet has focussed on some blocks for KOGO who asked for these colours for Torres Strait Island communities...

I am working in 8 ply and discovering that not all 8 ply's are equal - even within the same brand.  The blocks are supposed to be 20cm and sometimes they work to that and other times not.....

More framed hexagons have been done.....

and another set of Sashiko 365 blocks....

Some blocks have been sewn... these are for a Community Quilt for club - it's a clever pattern.  This one is bright!

I am hoping to sew the blocks together this next weekend...

Today at Embroidery guild some more hexagons were done.... I think I have another 3 sets to do then need to decide on centres and joining....

I did cut and start sewing strips for a flannel quilt I am going to do..... large rail-fence blocks.  I want to get this quilt done and posted before Winter so it is being moved to top of the machine sewing list.....

I hope you have a lovely end of week and weekend xx ..... I have a Community Quilting sew day planned and an afternoon of icing Easter biscuits ... that will be fun....

Righto, Gotto Go....  cat needs feeding,  fabric needs pressing and news to watch (such as it is!)

Hugz