August 2025

 I finally seem to have a month where I can show some making

Jackie came over and we went to Festival of Quilts with Lisa and did some sewing

I finished a crocheted scarf for my mum

Lovely Janet at church made some baby sets for the under-construction baby

I did some hand quilting on the mandala quilt, but it looks as if you'll have to take my word for it!  It's been put away until the cooler weather though!

I went on a course doing foil embossing - great fun!

I did a couple of shifts at Windsor Baptist Church: we made Trolls and Rainbow Fish

I did a final few patches for Tara

I made these for the new baby: toys but also for photographs to identify their age in days, weeks, months or years.  There will be another cube with those 4 words on (eventually)

I mad a few Gingers for various international August "Days": Lizard Day

And Bow Day

Dog Lover Day

And Zoo Appreciation Day!

Last year I planted dozens of sunflower seeds, replanted the healthiest looking plants, nurtured them, prepared beds for them and planted them in the garden, watered them regularly . . . Apparently for the benefit of the slugs. The few that weren't decimated only grew to 6" and never flowered. This year I have one sunflower plant - it had seeded itself, has been ignored by me (and the slugs?), I never watered it . . . The blinking thing is happy, healthy and taller than me! 

We went to a family wedding and had a great time

(Niki is starting to look pregnant!)

I got ahead of myself with A September Ginger: Talk like a Pirate day on 19th September!

I have stitched an altar topper for the Lady Chapel at Church.  It needs to be ironed, assembled, quilted and bound, but at the end of July it was just fabric off the roll, so not too bad!

AND have completed an I-Spy quilt for a friends new granddaughter

And exciting news for our monthly Stitch and Crafty Church groups:  We don't pay rent for the hall so when another group wanted to pay rent to use the hall every Saturday and Sunday I couldn't object.  The rea hall was a school room (preschool) until last summer then was an unsuccessful boxing club but it finally empty and clean, so the sewing groups and the Repair Café are moving into the smaller hall.  We should be able to leave stuff out, and advertise the space for other craft groups as a studio space - how exciting!!!

And right at the end of the month I attended a Silversmith class with LaJade and made a solver pendant

2025 May

 Hello June!

Well you'll be surprised to know this month is full of photos 😂

Completed "show and tell" felt birds from the Chertsey Ladies

And the start of slouch bags

My ridiculous to-do list

But a few finishes

Including the binding on the new hive quilt

This is a dresden plate flimsy that came over from Jackie's a long while ago.  I have finally embroidered  dresden plates on the blank blocks, but I'm not sure they show on the photos

I did a few patches (they are now off the to-do board)

and a few customer embroideries

Then I hopped on a plane to Ireland with the Dresden Plate flimsey: it's now been layers and basted so over to Jackie to quilt

And this is ready for quilting too

We don't get many pics of us, but this was a nice one

We made some project pouches

I have finally finished the tiny grandmother's flower garden: not sure what I'll do with it though

Hayley, Jane and I had a play with some fabric paints (thank you Val)

I really love the heliotropic qualities when you try things in the sun!

A friend brought us some donated quilts, and I managed to snap up this one (this pic shows half)

Deep breath and lots of measure twice checking and I cut it! First like this

Then a bit more detail

and now I have a quilted jacket!

but the most amazing creation has been left until last

And it's nothing to do with me

Huge congratulations to Niki and George

Munchkin due mid November

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