2025 April

Hello to the April furtle in my little corner of blog world

At the beginning of the month I taught the Fun With fabric session at Chertsey Museum - we created  lots of felt birds

I (or rather Lizzie) made lots of gingers for a customer

Jackie came over for a few lovely days - we made pouches for crochet and knitting markers

We made pouches for knitting needles and crochet hooks

We (or rather Lizzie) added stitched dresden plates to Jackie's fab Dresden plate quilt - not sure if you can see the stitching but it is there!!!

And we made craft bags with a lovely big opening

And we went to Creative Quilting and chose backing for the mandala quilt.

(She's gone off to the longarm quilter and is being quilted)

I made some samples of slouch bags ready for the May FWF session at Chertsey (instructions here if you want a go) I used the template from https://sewcanshe.com/easy-sling-bag-free-sewing-pattern/ but simplified it for hand sewing and the short lesson time.  The daisy bag was made with SewCanShe's template, and the others were made shallower (blue) and smaller (red)

The New Hive quilt has been quilted and bound and is now finished.  I had just ONE yellow bee hexie remaining 😳 Nothing like cutting it fine!

And finally a few uniform zippies for the Chertsey Museum staff:

There are a few other things ongoing but not ready for photos yet.  The to-do list is currently at 44 items and I know there are still a few more projects to go on the list but at least a few things have been transferred to the "done" clip

2022 March

Gingers are usually cheerul and happy, but  that was totally inappropriate for the shocking events that have happened this month, so I made this sad Ginger holding a Ukraine sunflower.  I'm not making them for sale but I have made a donation to the Red Cross appeal

On a more cheerful nore, the very talented Janine blogged about keeping a Book of Days - projects that grab your attention.  They are entered in the book as a safe place to keep ideas, they may never be made but they have been recorded.  My art skills are not up to hers and I tend to use Pinterest for ideas I want to keep, but she did inspire me to make a log of everything I have started to make and really should finish one day!

Be kind about my drawings - they are rubbish, but they are enough to remind me of each project, and that's all I need.  As I type this I realised there are still more to go in the book, but this gives you an idea!

I really do need to finish something before I start something else!  My plan is to cut off the top right corner if each project as I finish it so I can have a visual pat on the back for actually finishing something!!!

Not in the book, because it's crochet not sewing, is the Fall Shawl V2.  By mid March I got back to the size when I'd had to frog it 

And now, it's 99% finished (about 6 ends to sew in).  It's about 2m wide on the longest side so very difficult to photograph

It's lovely to wear, and I'm loving the "picot triangles" on the edge: I totally failed to grasp the instructions but with long distance help from Jackie and Amo I bodged a wiggly edge and am more than happy!

I went and set up the village hall early for Stitch and Crafty Church this month so I could speed date these 'covered corner' blocks in peace and privacy.  My thought was that I could do it at Crafty Church but I needed 8 tables which is all we have, and it's Lisa's birthday pressie so it's better if she doesn't see it!

Talking of birthdays - this glass panel was Brian's birthday pressie from the girls and I, I love it!

I made this Ginger for a friend,

And lots of these for Mothering Sunday at Church

However life then changed based on one of these (well two actually as husband had a matching one!)

So - jobs that had been put off for years no longer had any excuse to be put off any longer!  New kitchen cupboard doors and worksurfaces are due in April to transform this

So cupboards came down and walls and ceilings were painted

Cupboards cleaned

Patio tidied

And the fabric matched and cut

And half way to being a Chemo Comforter requested by a colleague of Niki's

But an opps!  

Do not proceed if you have any affilliation with the Quilt Police!

I cant believe when planning this block  I never considered seam allowance

How stupid is this!!!  How many years have I been patchworking????

It's simply too late to do anything about this - I think've used ten packs of FQ!!! I can't start again -  All I can say is I hope Lisa loves it despite the gaps!  (Plum I need to re-write the instructions!!!!!)

PS - and blogger spell checks seems to have gone on holiday, so aplogies for any spelling mistakes!