RSC 2025 May - Green

Green is a much easier colour!!!

I found plenty of strips and some wadding - already about 13" wide and it had a green fabric with it - must have been an offcut of a quilt...so I cut that into 4 x 19" long pieces and sewed the strips.  I still have green strips - but a lot less.

While I was sorting the strips,
I was also able to organise the green pieces for the colourwash blocks.

During the "sorting" stage...I found some blue squares and was able to whip up another placemat.  I know it's not green but it can stay in this post.

Be My Neighbour - May

Blocks 7 and 8 means we are halfway through!

Fiona has hers completed too - and she has joined the top two rows - look here!

Sunday Stitchers - UFO Challenge - #4 - My Small World

For the April MOJO List Challenge - I switched projects. I had planned to finish My Kinda Town, but couldn't find a suitable border fabric, so I decided to do My Small World instead.

I finished the top last year - in June as my Sunday Stitchers - June - UFO Challenge #10 
and I am very happy to now have it quilted (lightly) and bound.

I started this in November 2019 and joined an Instagram group where I found some FPP patterns for the blocks....and the hot air balloon. Five and a half years...not so bad.

and I had found this fabric for the backing...it was a perfect choice I thought.

Floral Fun - May

Progressing well and staying on track

2 x Section 1

Some DV Quilt Finishes

I had a big pinning day with Helen a few weeks back to help get some of the DV quilts moving along.  Pinning is much more fun with company ...and of course quicker. 
On the day we pinned 6 quilts - none of them were really big...so that of course gave me the incentive made me feel a little obliged to get on with the quilting.
It only took a few days to finish them - it is all walking foot quilting using a decorative stitch or two and straight stitch.   And then a bit more time to bind them.
An added incentive is to have them finished for the next Sunday Stitchers meeting, so I can hand them back to Helen to pass to the DV (Domestic Violence) organisation.

such a neat little pile

Be My Neighbour - April

I am a little late - these are the April blocks.

Fiona finished hers quite early as she had a busy family month.  Hers are here.

They are so different to mine...

Chookshed Challenge #4 - Lanarte - 3 vases cross stitch

This has been a very very long term project.  
(And as it's already the 29th - I'm just scraping in)

Back in 1985, I finished one of a set of 3 vases of flowers - designed by Lanarte.

It appears I finished the second one a fair while after that - I'm guessing 2018.

For the last couple of years, I have added this project to challenge lists and made some progress on it each time.

Finally, it's done:

and the other two:

  

I will need to add initials & year to the second one and stitch the frame.

I really think I may need to get these framed...

RSC 2025 April - Red

Red is another colour that I do not have a lot of . . .but I found enough to make 3 placemats

and 20 Colourwash blocks

That will do for now.

Something a bit different

My blog is mainly for me sewing/crafty pursuits, but I do occasionally do a few other things . . .

Before Easter a few of my enabling friends found these Kit Kat house kits.

As we were visiting the grand girls and extended family on Easter Sunday, I decided to make an Easter Egg Hunt scene.  The family live on a few acres and have a couple of cows.  The egg hunt is fun for children and grown ups alike.

A bit of frivolous fun.

Sewing Machine Hanger

When I was at Warwick recently, we visited a new patchwork shop - Sew Pretty - and amongst the treasures, we saw a Sewing Machine hanging....It was a machine embroidery design...

I googled it when I got home  . ..and . . .it was on special...so of course I bought it...and decided to "whip one up". . .LOL. . .If you know anything about machine embroidery projects...you don't whip them up...maybe if you have been doing it for years . . but that is not me
When you load the design - it says 103 minutes. . . well, that doesn't take into account trimming fabrics, changing threads etc. . . .lets say it took 5 - 6 hours...

And, also - don't believe the story that you can do either things while its stitching away - firstly - each bit only takes a few minutes, then you need to trim or change the thread....and secondly, the minute you leave the machine the thread will break or something else will go wrong...well strictly speaking that is not true . . . .but you get the idea.
It is possible to listen to books though.

The design comes complete with some dingle dangles underneath -
scissors, thimble and a reel of thread, but I didn't want them.
its from Designs by JuJu in case you are tempted.