SLIKstitchesblog: Becca

Thursday, July 1, 2021

2021 Week 26

Sorry - photo overload . . . you have been warned!

I know this is mostly a crafty blog - but I did make this gorgeous girl!!!!

#2 daughter is still best friends with three girls she met at school (aged just 5) and two of then are getting married this year . . . and having the other 3 as their bridesmaids. The first wedding was last Saturday.

This little minx is the next bride to be in a few weeks time

The bridesmaids and their partners (just the groom missing!)

We found the groom

Niki wanted a photo with "Mumma and Papa P" - the brides' parents.

He started his speech by thanking the bridesmaids and how they'd been in and out of his house so often throughout their childhood he thought of them as extra daughters - that set them all off sobbing . . . luckily I had made plenty of tissue cases so they could dry their eyes! (Talk to Me ginger is nothing to do with the wedding, he just wanted to be in the photo!)

I made tissue cases with white embroidery for bride and groom (or may have forgotten the change the thread but keep that under your hat!) which went down well too . . . as did the ginger bride and groom!

I was given one of the table displays and am currently drying all the flowers - I'm experimenting with resin but they need to be dry first -

I've also got some flowers being pressed, and one bud (hopefully) drying in salt

There was a bit of dress lining and a fair bit of dress fabric left after the (very traumatic) taking up of the dress so I made a rope bowl, maybe to put the resin results in.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

2010 August (3)

Kate's SAH Robin

Last year at Festival Of Quilts I bought LOADS of whites with black, and blacks with white.

The mostly whites went with some pale greens into a quilt for Niki's friend Kay:

The mostly blacks went, with some pale blues, into a quilt for Niki's friend Becca

Both types, plus a bit of red, went into log cabins which became cushion covers for Niki herself:

and the remaining fabrics plus a few orphan log cabins went into a plastic bag awaiting inspiration.

One of the blogs I've been following is Kates's Quilting Blogspot where she is hosting a Stay At Home Round Robin. We'll I've finally plucked up the courage, and I've used an orphan and some scraps to catch up with the first two stages, and now I'm off to ask Kate, Pretty Please, can I be in your gang?

I have a great two days at the Festival Of Quilts with Jackie. Really inspired by some quilts, and staggered by the complexity of others - and even found myself thinking "I could do that" on a few, so maybe I'll think about entering something somewhere next year!

I was fairly restrained in my shopping: just a few fat quarters and two jelly rolls

(one for free when I signed up for Popular Patchwork magazine).

Mostly I bought treasures - that will go onto postcards, or onto Journal Quilts for Lisa. The felt is for handmade Christmas decorations, and one of the FQs was fab little cupcakes for Niki!

I also bought a bunch of treasures which I will use for something - no plans yet, but they were too cute not to have

Today Brian and I added some more shelves to the
bookcase in the sewing room, so I've got the fabrics arranged so I can see them, and plan my next project.

But I am going to try very hard to finish some of the to-do list BEFORE I put scissors to any of this scrummy fabric!

Green Pink postcard swap

This is me being amazingly organised for a postcard swap in October!!!

I took these cards and the ribbons with me to NEC at the weekend, and worked on them on the train and while chatting in the evenings. As they were SO close to being finished I thought I might as well get them done so they can be taken off the to-do list! It also means I can join in QuiltStory's Fabric Tuesday, as I actually have a Fabric Finish that I can show :-)

The swap theme is "Pink", and I've called them Greenly Pink, as all the ribbons are recycled from packaging or other projects :-)

A short update

Not many photos today :-( but that's because I've been doing basically boring sewing: 3 more Hug Radio t-shirts, two more paw print headrests, and initials on another six PE kits - boring but all earning money so I shouldn't complain!

I also got started on Dales' bags: I've been following Spoon flower's website, where you can get your own designs printed onto fabric, and have finally taken the plunge and created a 'design' which gives care instructions for the Wombat Hats: I'm very excited!

Other than that it's been an exciting week: Niki got fab GCSE (O'level in old money) results, Lisa got her Uni accommodation sorted after a few problems, I got the grant of probate on Uncle Geoff's estate, and I got offered the job at the After School Club - what a week!!!

A Blue Quilt, and a Christmas tree

Today I've been delivering a grant application and some PE kits, and done some work at school, but when I finally got home I NEEDED to sew!

So I've cut strips apart, sewn strips together, cut sewn strips into squares, sewn squares together to make bigger squares, and finally sewn those squares together to make a quilt top, and I feel very please with myself!

I have also mounted a little Christmas tree project which is for the crafts with fabric course that I am doing at Windsor library next month. Slightly limited in what we can make without sewing machines, but I was quite pleased with the end result of this one, so we'll aim for this idea in the first session and see what people want to do for the next session (hoping that there are 'people'!!!)

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