Stocking up

I have been busying away in a few spare moments over the past four or five days at stocking up some makes for our forthcoming Fundraiser/Exhibition early next month.

In spite of really not wanting to admit to myself that Christmas isn't so very far off, I forced myself to start thinking festive in the hope that an early November stitch sale might attract a few folks looking for Christmassy items.

Christmas Stockings - hoping folks might be interested in hanging one of these up at the beginning of Dec.

And, bunting - again for Christmas decorations (2 sets) and potentially for gift purchases (3 sets).

As you can see, these makes are still not quite finished but hopefully a wee stitchy afternoon with the other Bee Blessed bees on Saturday will soon tidy these up.  Along with a wee pile of baby taggies and a host of brooches I'm hoping that my contribution to the sale table is respectable.  Now just fingers crossed that they will sell, although I admit some of those brooches are going to be an acquired taste!

Festive Finish

In spite of my great plans to tackle some of the bigger projects on my Sew Many Plans list this weekend, I flagged dramatically after a hectic week and busy Saturday with family commitments.

Before I collapsed on the sofa, however, I did manage to I stitch together the constituent parts of the Christmas stocking I started last month.  I have long wanted to try this harlequin layout for a stocking.  It's a good job I have added personalised embroidery to the cuff or I'd be tempted to hang this one out for Santa myself!

Anyway, it may not be the tick off the list I was expecting this weekend, but it's still a tick.

Happy Monday for tomorrow folks!

Lots going on

I have been reasonably quiet on the blog for the last few weeks but that doesn't mean that nothing has been happening around here.  Would you like to see some of the little things I've been up to?

Too bad, I'm showing you anyway, ha!

Firstly, I have been back at Thursday night class.  I was a bit gutted to miss the first week of the class when Judith was teaching needleturn applique but for the past two Thursday nights I've been working on satin stitch applique and sketching.

Samples

All of this technique and skill building is leading to making a choice of one of the techniques to make an applique cushion.  I feel some of my Ruby scraps may be put to use for this selfish make - watch this space!

During the week Judith and I got our heads together on a Bee Blessed quilt and, attempting to remember and recreate my Grey Wonky Blocks quilt, have worked collaboratively on these lovelies.

I just love those greens and am thinking that some of that Kona Green Tea has to find its way into my fabric shopping basket soon.

The next project start comes with apologies to Catherine.  I have been giving her a hard time for showing off Christmas makes already (sorry, Catherine!) and now have to confess that I had a hankering after a bit of festive fabric myself earlier in the week.  So, I started work on the stocking my son has requested for his teacher's Christmas gift.

I forgot how much I enjoy making Christmas stockings and think this is probably the earliest one I have EVER made. (And Catherine, you now have complete authority to give me a hard time right back.)

The Not So Gross quilt has also been resurrected since being shelved in July along with the Swoon quilt.  It has had borders added and quilting is now finished, but I'm waiting to finish the binding before sharing it with you properly.

And then today, I just had a wee itch to do something new, so here's what I'm up to now.

Wonky crosses are blocks I've wanted to try since I first saw them on Oh Fransson, and I was not disappointed in my play time this afternoon.  I still have half of the blocks to finish but I love the ones I have done so far (the two right hand columns).

This project was also about trying to be better at selecting and mixing fabrics and I think I'm getting there.  At first I wasn't sure that I could get away with mixing aqua, turquoise, teals and slightly greener aqua but I think it's going to be okay (fingers crossed).  Really looking forward to finishing this off when I have a few days off later this week.

Hope you all have been having fun too!