Churn Dash - June

Somehow I got dragged/pushed/fell into/joined Chooky's SAL to make a Churn Dash Quilt.

I was being quite successful at resisting until a group of us were fabric buying (for our Charity Quilts).  A few were already in or teetering and someone said - "Well they don't take long once they are cut"...mmm...

So, here I am making Churn Dash blocks, and - because there is a deadline/goal to have 1/4 of the blocks finished by June 30th - they are done.

I am using a random selection of prints - from the stash - I bought the background - part of the fabric buying episode mentioned.  I have sashing and triangle fabric which I picked up new at a very very low price.

Here are the block fabrics

We "need to" do 1/4 each month til September - but then only have October to finish it off - that means sashing and setting triangles.   I really need to have a word to Madam Organiser about that ....LOL

Crochet Blocks - June

I was on a mission to finish 25 blocks this month (enough for Maria to make one rug) - didn't quite make it - but got to 19

Quite a stack!!! - All the same at the moment...
like this:

Still have about a ball of each colour so I should be able to finish off another 6.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) - June

I finished these much earlier in the month - but need a post to link up wth Angela's blog.

June's colour was Bright Blue / Dark blue, so I have added one more border... an interesting exercise to go with the green from last month...but they seem to work.

Purple for July - I am sure I can manage that one...but next to the blues???   Oh, I do love a challenge.

Thanks Angela

Homegrown Quilt - January-June

As noted back here - a group of friends are working on Sue Spargo's Homegrown Quilt.

It seems I haven't posted many pictures of my blocks, so this is a 6 month round-up.

We planned on one block a month, as we all have lots of other projects on the go.

I've left rimming them until I start joining them together 

as some of the hand stitching goes well over the seam line 

and I don't want to cut it off.

FNSI - June

I'm a bit late posting - but as most saw on Facebook - I was there in cyberspace working away

The usual Friday night crocheting for a bit

I'm still working on the Indigenous colors - almost enough for one rug.

Then onto my June house for the Sue Spargo Homegrown quilt.

it's good that I am doing this with friends - it makes me get a block done . . .else it would join the collection of UFOs.  This one needed to be ready for Show & Tell on Sunday - gotta love deadlines!

Happy Sewing all - hope you were productive - or at least enjoyed yourselves!

Thanks Wendy!

ABC Book - Kim

This is the latest ABC book - this is for the last of my eldest daughter's bridesmaids.

I haven't bound or tied this one together yet - so much easier to photograph it beforehand.

   

  

     

         

  

I really struggled to get all the pictures sitting side by side - they are not lined up nicely, but they will have to do.

Now I can start working on the next one - for eldest daugher's #2 bub....I have all the letters and some of the pictures ready to go . . .but I have a few other "on the go" projects...which one first???

Chookshed Sympathy Party

If you read Chookyblue's blog you will know this weekend is usually an annual Chookshed Party - with real live people gathering at her place - not via Zoom.  They sew and sew and drink and talk and laugh and sew.

BUT it's been so wet there lately - (unlike the years when the drought was so bad) that the road to her place is just not traversable.

So, to buoy her spirits a bit I had a pretend cyber sewing party with her.

Saturday I was out sewing with friends and worked on this Natalie Bird Christmas stitchery - it's a long-term project - but a handy "Go To" project.

Saturday night I finished off the RSC blocks for June  - and took a picture for a post later in the month

and sewed around the pages for the latest ABC book.

Today (after the grocery shopping  . . blah)   I turned the pages inside out - 

ready for hand stitching tonight (Sunday) when I watch the Royal Concert for the Queen's Jubilee

and then I made some more progress on my Churn Dash - that I really really wasn't going to do - but somehow got sucked into it . . . not mentioning any names, (Chooky, Helen, De)

No finished blocks yet. but a lot of HST, a lot of the rectangle pieces and the centre squares are cut.

Happy Chookshed Birthday Chooky!

FNWF - June

Crikey!!!   By this time next month - the year will be half over and we will be celebrating EOFY (End of Financial Year)

Cheryll has kindly gathered us together to sew and share creative projects - all in cyberspace.

Tonight - as usual - some Better Homes & Gardens and crochet - 

a bit of yellow to go then black.

Then off to Susan's Sewing Space - to escape the AFL ruckus - fortunately, Geelong won - though you wouldn't think so by the berating from DH....

I worked on my RSC - the colour/s for June are bright blue or dark blue - I used blue and tried to stick to the correct colour where possible.
Sadly didn't finish all 9 blocks - but 6 are done - 

3 almost done

(It's a bit of an "odd bod" thing really - but somehow I think it's working.)

I am going to trim the blue back - some will end up narrow - some - well who knows?
My vague plan is that the final squares are 20.5" - that is the largest ruler I own . . .so may need to do some narrow strips ... it's very much a "fly by the seat of my pants" thing.

I'm very grateful Cheryll keeps us going for FNWF - it makes me do something other than the lazy go-to project (crochet) and it makes me do a blog post...LOL   🤣

So, pop over here to see what else was buzzing around!  I hope to visit you all over the weekend.