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.

FNWF - June

What ????
June already???  The year will be half over soon.

But the First Friday of the month sees us gathered for some sewing fun with Cheryll and friends.

Recently I had finished prepping the pages for the next ABC book, so I decided to work on them.  (The alternative involved measuring & cutting etc...so I gave it a miss)

I had a medium grey in the bobbin, so worked on the grey pieces (not a lot of them and not a lot of bobbin thread.)
Then I switched to a light grey bobbin and did all the white pieces, before calling it quits for the night.  In retrospect, I should try to do the white & cream in daylight  .  but . . )

And of course - a bit of crochet while watching BH&G!!!

Thanks, Cheryll - pop over here to find out what the others got up to!

ABC Book ~ Alphabet Book

This is the 7th ABC book I have made.   When I look back at the first one - for Luka - it is quite simple - generally one or two images per letter.

These days they are a lot more interesting (I hope) and full of images.

I do enjoy making them - and I now have a few "buddies" who are making them too.

Here is the latest one for Milo - Luka's brother.

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!

ABC Book - Peyton

This ABC book is a bit more special...it does look quite similar to the one in the previous post...no surprise there...

Again - for my records - even more pictures this time  . . .

DD2 and partner live on 5 acres - in Brisbane suburbia - 

but they own 2 Lowline cows - (around 5 foot tall)

The dog is theirs

I had to make an "adjustment" to the "I" page.  There are not a lot of nouns starting with "I"...Someone suggested Indians (Cowboys & Indians...right???) _ so I found a picture of a boy & girl Indian...DD2 daughter asked what that was  . .  .I explained . . ."MUM - THEY ARE NATIVE AMERICANS"...so I found a new picture of an Iguana and used no-sew fusible webbing to cover the original picture . . . ooops

All done & delivered.

I think I can pack up the ABC Book gear for a little while now.
Eventually, there could be more for another of my eldest daughter's friends 

and then for extra grandchildren . . . 

but nothing in the immediate future that I know of.