February 2026

 Hello from February's Furtle!

Lets have a look at the February photos

Some fab peacock Easy Stack blocks from Chertsey

An I-spy under construction

An Auschwitz memorial Ginger

and a Mothering Sunday snowdrop Ginger

A cuddly bear in the garden

I used a few left over easy stack patches to make a useful basket 

I made Jack a mini quilt to go with a new book.  I may have spelt Jackesaurous wrong but as it's a made up word, and his spelling is currently worse than mine, this will do!

 

He seems to like the book!

Another national day ginger: National Hug Day

Grandson's age now being measured in months not weeks!  Where did that time go?

Step mom asked for a pickle ball ginger

A little friend came to play in the sewing room

Lisa and I went on a locked latch course

A few nearly ready quilts - you may count 6 quilts . . . the sheet of paper on top has 7 names on it!

Gingers celebrate national dog walking day 

and national chips day

Brian needed to do some work on the heating so my sewing room is even more untidy than usual! 😶

Niece Tara and I had a day at Hampton Court.  Do zoom in and see the amazing detail on this dress

and the beautiful fabric behind the beading

and then take time to appreciate that whilst the dress would have been made by hand several hundred years ago, we are looking at a painting of the original dress

OhMyGosh!!!

I also spotted a few ceilings that would make great EPP projects!

Finally we had Crafty Church yesterday and made a few winter hats for charity

and couldn't resist the temptation to photograph them in use!

Happy 1st March, see you next month x

2021 Week 15

 A quick project - inspired by the lovely Plum I decided to make a tray liner!  the red and white match my favourite mug (thank you Jackie) and the biscuit tin!

And husband helped me make a thread storage shelf for the embroidery threads - the 1000m spools fit nicely into a plastic draw in the Ikea Trofast units that make up most of the sewing room

But the 5000m spools are too big to really fit on the spikes, and generally don't behave

Ikea made shelves as an alternative to the drawers and I had a few that were not in use.  With the help of a length of broom handle and various bit of equipment in his shed we bodged this shelf

And it works perfectly !!

The lengthened denim dress has been finished and worn and photographed!

I met with a friend in the garden - I had finally finished the felt OLIVER for her grandson, and the felt animals needs to be positioned so I could hand stitch them on.  It was lovely to catch up and nice to have some hand sewing to do

Lisa sent Jackie and I this pic of her blocked crochet - don't they look fab!!!!  I think my blanket will be much harder to do!

With no crochet of my own to do, I thought I'd have a go at fingerless gloves!  Problem number 1 is that I can't cast on - my crochet is too tight!  So I used a huge hook and created three chains and forced the hook back into them to cast on three stitches . . . then turned the whole lot through 90 degrees and started adding rows of trebles, three at a time, until I had a band that was long enough.  

I then turned it through 90 degrees again and started adding to the side (2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1 to make it the right circumference and made it up to ten rows, I then missed 2 stitches and zigzagged back and forth for 7 rows then started with complete rows again.  there was a lot of frogging to make them the right size (left needed to be much tighter than right as I am, ahem, digitally challenged) but they will keep me warm next winter!

In other news, I finally finished this for a customer, just need to add a name

And there is a Ginger ready for St George's day next week

Apart from that the sewing room is an absolute tip, I've eaten too much, and I'm fed up with looking at this computer screen so I'm going to go and sit in the sunshine for a bit!  Hope everything is Ok in your corner of the world

2020 week 48

 A quilt for a customer . . . 

A tip of a sewing room

A tomte, gonk, gnome, troll or Julenissen depending of which you prefer

Gingers for my daughters and Lisa's boyfriend.

"Lisa" is crocheting a block for this

Niki is cross stitching this:

And Jim is on his Nintendo Switch!

I was asked to make a few gingers for some ambulance drivers:

And some dressing up clothes for a few Elves on the shelf!!

I'll add the pics when mum posts them on Facebook!

I made a few ginger nativity sets

And then posted these on Facebook offering to take orders

It seemed like a good idea at the time!

Lets just say they are far more popular than I had anticipated!!!!