Friday night sew in August report!

hubby and i managed to get the little human into bed before 7pm - so that meant i was off to my sewing space then! lucky me!

i was very disciplined, bordering on boring, this FNSI - i restricted myself to UFO's only.

first i finished off my mother in law's blocks for her 60th birthday quilt.

then i got to work on my hubby's requested tv watching quilt. his challenge was to make it entirely from my stash (he is a bit of a tight-arse!) as then he would enjoy it more. i decided on a disappearing 9 patch some time ago, as it would hide my mismatched points more easily!

i had kind of just been going along cutting 3" squares and piecing them together, but i thought i should get organised with some colours etc, otherwise there wouldn't be a spread of the fabrics....

so i got all my colours out and started cutting....

then grouped them into piles of 9 separted by the insert from some flat fats i had...

then i pieced a few together....

getting some idea of what it will look like...

then i called it a night!

much fun - it is nice to put a whole night aside and be out by myself doing craft.  glad i have the excuse to do it once a month with FNSI!!!

pugs and kisses
xx

p.s. for those in Oz, don't forget to vote today!!!  despite what our Mark Latham might think, making your vote count is more important that protesting by donkey voting.  if you don't like what you are seeing in the major parties, consider a minor one or an independent.  but whatever you do, make it count!  people have fought and died for our right to choose our government

lucky me x 2!

today, i love my postman. not that i don't normally love him, he is very nice and regularly brings things that are too big to fit in my letterbox to my front door - very thoughtful. but today, two special reasons for love!

1. my swap partner for this month, Cathy, 's block arrived!!! and it is lovely - such great piecing. and she included a fabo piece of fabric in the colours requested - can't wait to put this quilt together one day!

love it - and not only that, this beautiful card was included, that Cathy made herself!  what a clever crafty lady!  (please excuse my hand - holding it up was the only way i could stop the flash washing out the photo!)

2. the other reason to love the postie today was the arrival of a prize from Homespun!  lucky lucky me!  "dreaming of a white christmas" by kerry swain was my prize and it is a beautiful book full of recipes, craft and decorating tips for a tradition christmas.

off to bed now - hope you all had a great FNSI
will post update tomorrow morning with some sleep in me!

pugs and kisses
xx

FINISHED! Adeline's tagged blankie

a lovely young couple that we know have had a baby prem - but thankfully everything is going ok for mum and bubs

they have called the little girl Adeline - a name i love!!!

anyhoo, here is the tagged blanket i made here - her name is embroidered in the middle using the curly font on my sewing machine.

so easy to make - this was 1/2 hour total!

hopefully it brings some joy

pugs and kisses
xx

p.s. don't forget FNSI sign ups!!!

UPDATE! boy oh boy quilt

the top centre piecing is finished!! i am pretty happy with it i think - happy for my first attempt at designing something myself anyway :)

as you can see, it is 8 pieced 9 patch blocks around a centre, which will have embroidered words from the poem/nursery rhyme 'what are little boys made of?'

this is a close up of one of the corners - i totally cheated when putting on the setting triangles as i didn't know how to actually do it.  so i wasted HEAPS of material, but at least i got the look i wanted

and these are the threads im going to embroider the centre with

still have to think about an outer border and then binding. i definitely don't have enough left of my fat quarter bundle for a solid outer border, and i think that is what it needs to finish it off - not more busy-ness. so may have to have a trip out to Quiltaholics - not my LQS but the one that i know of that has the biggest range.  so i am thinking they may have a green to match in.  i tried to find more of the fabric online, but without success - must be an older line?


so overall a good weekends work! luckily for me, the little human has just discovered that hiding is so much fun, and so a big box in my sewing area has meant about 1 hour of happy play at a time - so able to do more in larger blocks, which always seems to achieve more than little bits of time here and there. but mind you, ill take anything!

pugs and kisses
xx

oooo august friday night sew in sign up!!!!

lucky i checked on Alex's blog tonight!  it is always a good read of course, but she reminded me about FNSI!!!!
so get signed up for next friday night and get ready to stitch, stitch, stitch

pugs and kisses
xx

what's in my letterbox?

don't you love arrivals in the post!

i went looking for some lovely fabric that i saw on Leanne's House Blog  - and found it through Earthgirl Fabrics.  it is various gorgeous little people in national costume!  can't wait for it to talk to me to tell me what to make it into :)

and of course, while i was there i clicked around the website to see what else was on sale - and there was this great ribbon!  this is a close up of what is repeated....

i just love it for boys toys and bags.  i am thinking of dreaming what the rest of the 'hero' might look like and then making him for the Toy Society drops - an inspirational message along with a free toy :)

and add to all that, when i got to the checkout of the website - i worked out that there is free postage within australia!!!! so i went back and bought another metre of the ribbon with the money i figured i saved on postage - very happy all round :)

pugs and kisses
xx

UPDATE! little monsters quilt

waiting at the doctors today to get the all clear from the aforementioned kidney infection (which i got - yay!) i finished the blanket stitch on the last little monster - whew!

i know ive posted him before, but he is completed, so i thought he deserved another showing :)

i think i will put them aside for a bit - need a break from all that blanket stitching!!!

time to get back on track with the butterfly garden quilt - i unpacked it from the spare room today, and had forgotten where i had got to - that means i have been away from it for too long!  hope to have something to show of it soon

pugs and kisses
xx