2023 April

Hello lovely people inside my phone: happy May

Here is a photo heavy roundup of my April!

Little hexie flowers sewn on holiday (half inch sides)

   

Not many holiday photos!  Dad and Eileen's keep bees, and I love that they have painted all the hives a different colour!

I ran out of fabric for the mini hexies, but I had felt with me on holiday - this is prep for next month's Fun With Fabric class: the idea is that you can have several needles threaded onto the thead tail, and stored in the lid.  Take the end one and it's already threaded ready for you to start sewing

And then I decorated this (it was a kit but will also become a class)

Annnnnd . . . stitched this lama

Lizzie has been busy since we got back - we've made King Charles, and a coronation ginger

and I'm making 100 of these for a customer

(just 28 to go)

I made a cushion for the Coronation picnic

  

to go on the throne!

and made a load of name badges for a friend and his friends to put on their boiler suits

  

I finished this lovely balloon nail art kit that the girls got me for Mothering Sunday

And finished two i-spy quilts for two bonus daughters who have just had babies

 

and here are Freddie and Amelia

And loving the blankets Niki made for them

And I made bonus quilts for the Grandmas: I've embroidered "These grandparents belong to" and added the babies' names: as more babies come along they can bring the quilts back to me and get Lizzie to add more names (Jane is expecting the next one next month!)

Lisa helped me run a Crown making workshop in the village: not as many children as we'd hope for, but they all had a great time

  

In other news: Our lovely God Daughter got engaged last week . . . 

and then . . . .Niki and George did too!!!!

Huge congratulations to both couples!!

Niki and George are planning on next year, not sure when Alice and Liam's will be, but very exciting!!!

(of course there had to be a ginger to commemorate the occassion!)

And finally, I managed to put my back out and couldn't drive or even walk when I was supposed to do the April Fun with Fabric so the lovely Rhona came over, collect the stuff, had a very quick lesson in what to do to make Japanese Rice Bags and then took the class for me: Well done all expecially Rhona, and thank you so much!!!

 

2022 Week 2

So we start a new year with a new blog post - and some actual finishes!!!!

None were quite as smooth as they should have been though!

The Janet Claire sludge fabrics got added to a fleece backing with a lot of flaffing and measuring: I like clams but I dont see loads of them in my future!

I decided to use the sewing machine to blanket stitch them down: sometimes she was very happy, 

Other times she was a right pain in the neck!

Anyway: quilt got joined and bound, and was delivered on Wednesday - juts two weeks late, and she's very happy with it!

Another finish has been posted to Norway for a cousin's newish grandson.  His name, Sverre, is an old Viking king's name.  His mum is cousin to Theia and Saga's mum, so although I made a different type of I-spy quilt I wrote his names in the same style

Annoyingly I managed to trap some loose fabric on the back when I embroidered one of the names, but I added a strip of the blue spraytime to the back to match the front and the binding and that hid the problem!!!

I stitched badges for the scouts and other uniform groups that delivered the village Christmas cards

And I got to the hairdressers for a trim and a bit of colour!!!!

With a bit of help from Lisa my stack of granny squares . . . 

Is starting to become a bloanket

I have completed the January Hexi flower swap hexies

And received all the December ones

Lisa's Jim got me a fabric pack for Christmas: mostly mustards and teal.  He is colour blind so I know he sometime struggles to choose colours but he said he bought these because they must go together as they came in a pack, and I overheard him say that he chose a pack he liked in case I made him something from it.  This is the problem with having daughters - it honestly never occurred to me that Jim might want something patchwork!!!!  Also he lives in a house with a number of quilts I have made for Lisa over the years and a fair number of blankets that she has crocheted, so I don't know that making him one would have occurred to me . . . well now it has!  He has the box room as his 'play room' where he plays computer games, and there is a small mustard sofa bed in it

This was the pack he got for me

I ordered a few more mustards and a replacement teal, cut them into 2.5" strips

And now I have a flimsy round-the-world in mustard and teal!

I need to find the right colour fleece for the backing but I rather like it - hope he does too!

2020 Wk 9 Play date fun

The lovely Tara from Crafty Church came to play today.  She brought this panel she had made at a class where she learnt to draw and write with a sewing machine, and we turned it into a cushion

While Tara was sewing her projects I was cutting t-shirts to size for a T-shirt quilt for a customer.  I wanted (needed) a quilters square 15 inches square, but don’t have one and couldn't find one to buy - so I butted a 12.5” square to a 2.5” ruler and topped them off with an over lapping 4” ruler: worked a dream and no duct tape residue when I pulled it all off!

This cushion is going to be gifted with a pack of fabric pens so it can coloured in - put to add to the pizazz Tara wanted to add bright pom-poms. . . It was a fair amount of flaffing to get it right but doesn't it look great

Come on Tara - show us how chuffed you are!!!