RSC - July

The end of the month is here….time to post the aqua fish to add to the pond.

Now to check the colour for August…..Orange!

ABC Book ~ Alphabet Book - Montana

Another ABC book has rolled off the press...or the sewing machine.

This one is for Montana - the 4th grandchild - and this is the 8th book I've made. There may not be any more grandchildren...but there are two more people I may make one for...time will tell.

Sunday Stitchers - June - UFO Challenge #10 - My Small World - Section 5

I am not sure about the Random Number Cyber Gods.  On my SS Challenge List - I had 3 (out of 12) things for My Small World.  We have only drawn 6 numbers so far...and all 3 have been drawn.

I groaned a bit when #10 fell out of the spinning container.
But - a challenge is a challenge -  I put these things on the list to make me do them.

The last section of My Small World is done:

The hot air balloon is not part of the pattern...

but patterns are just a guide,.,,, right??

And the top is together

There are a few bits that I could have done a lot better. . . but when viewing it from 3 yards . . .it's perfectly fine. (Just last month I repeated "Finished is better than perfect" to a fellow blogger.)

Originally started in November 2019 - here.

It is a challenging project - well for my skill set anyway.
And I still don't like how Jen Kingwell writes her patterns.  I was very fortunate - back in 2019 to be able to get a set of foundation paper pieced patterns for this..They were a great guide to the sizes.
And a new facebook group has started for those making the quilt now and it seems they will also have some additional guidance/patterns.

Not sure about the quilting plan yet.....probably next year...too much happening this year!!

FNSI - July

Winter has hit Queensland.
It is not often that I am thinking it is cold where I live...Winter is generally quite mild - by 10:00 AM it is often warm enough for a light top...and I rarely turn the air conditioning onto "Heating".
But its on this year - it has been cold - single digits overnight and very windy.

Nevermind, I can mostly stay in my Sewing Space and while away some time.

Tonight, as I joined cyber friends, I planned to sew some French Rose blocks.  

BUT any new project is hugely exciting and the first part of the Winter Shops Cross stitch pattern has been released,  I just had to make a start....

I have enough started, 

so that I can sew it without too much counting & checking 

on Sunday when I go to Sunday Stitchers.

Then - as it was footy time - I escaped and worked on the French Roses.

I had already prepped them so it was just a matter of stitching...
They are sewn by free motion stitching - with the wadding & backing attached.  De, from the Sunday Stitchers group asked us to make some - she will make a quilt for our DV Charity.

I had made 2 previously but will have 11 in total to hand over.
Here are a couple:

That is about it - thanks Wendy for gathering us together and a big "hi" to everyone who joined in.

FNWF - July

And another month has rolled on by .  . 

Friday Night saw me working on a little crossstitch.  One of my "enabling" friends showed it to me and I laughingly said, "Oh!  I will whip that up tonight".  It took more than a night - but not too many.  Here is where I stopped Friday Night.

As Saturday was a sewing group day - with Loose Threads - and it wasn't a complicated design...I worked on it some more.

Now, I just need to assemble it.

Thanks, Cheryll for hosting FNWF each month, and thanks everyone for the company!

RSC - June

Oops - it is technically July in Australia - so I am late....but in the US it is still June....

My blue RSC fish

and the next month is aqua...I will have to see what I have - I have already delved into the aqua shades to finish one fish...

Happy New Financial Year to all