Brrr-ring...Brrr-ring...

I got a new phone recently...one of those "smart phone" types...flat touch screen and all that stuff that I still can't drive yet...

Anyhow...this new phone is kinda slippery slidey and being flat and black hard to find in my bag...so my solution?...

A little case for it...designed by me for my phone...took all of 2 1/2 hours last night including the stitchery to sew so a really quick project...this is the prototype and a bit wonky but it will do for now and given I made it entirely from scraps it cost nothing but a bit of time to draw up and sew.  The Rocky Mountain scraps are from A Gardener's Journal which I've apparently abandoned...must rediscover my GJ mojo...

 

So that makes four OPAM finishes for September...mind you, the UFO pile hasn't decreased because I keep starting new stuff *LOL*

Happy Stitching...

A Win and A Done...

The win...

...my name came up for OPAM in August and the lovely Kris sent me these goodies...aren't I lucky...thank you Kris (& Peg)...

...and this is now done...

...ready to be sent off to GF K to join her other Georgetown Circle blocks...I hope she likes it...

Happy Stitching...

A Little Progress...

...the day job really does interrupt the stitchy schedule but a little bit of progress has been achieved...

...now to tackle the great long list of Friday tasks...starting with taking Larry for his 60,000km checkup...the quicker I get the list ticked off the sooner I can sew!


Enjoy your Friday...


Happy Stitching...

X Marks the Bag...

Remember the non-event of Friday Night Sew-In?  Well, it has progressed to a finished bag…

Ta dah!

 The Xbag…by Four Corners Designs…

I used dressmaking weight cottons to “test drive” the pattern before using the way more expensive patchwork quality fabrics I bought at Threadbear a couple of weeks ago and a thin polyester batting, without adding any quilting, so the red homespun doesn’t show through the white/red spot fabric.

So a new week…a new bag…and another OPAM finish for September (that makes 3…what is going on here!).

Happy stitching…

Immersed in Stitching...

...at the lovely Immerse winery at Dixons Creek, which is in the Yarra Valley to the north-east of Melbourne...This was the environment we were forced to endure for the day…

Immerse Winery grounds

Look, it’s a hard job but someone has to do it *LOL*…And what did I do all day?...I took the advice of this project very very seriously...

Excellent advice for the day!

and did just that!  Stitched the day away happy as a lark...stitching, chatting, eating, stitchy shopping...the best way to spend a Saturday...

Our goody bags contained three kitted stitchery based projects from the lovely designers who together create this event every year…Rosalie (Rosalie Quinlan Designs)…Melanie (Melly & Me)…and Leanne (Leanne’s House)…along with other goodies such as needles, pretty scissors and of course, chocolates…

Projects and Goodies

 The project I choose to start with is Leanne’s...usually I stitch with one strand of embroidery floss but I looked at this project and went, nope, it really does need the texture of more so I’m using the number of strands in the pattern…boy did that take some getting used to again…the letters are stitched with three  strands...looks great…felt like I was stitching with rope!  The rest of the design is with two…OK, less rope like...now it feels like string!…I’m happy with how it is coming along…progress report another day.

Yes, there was shopping so of course I had to check out the wares of the shop for the day, Under the Mulberry Tree, and some just happened to come home with me...

Pretties for the Sewing Room

A wonderful day well spent...now back to reality *sigh*...

Happy Stitching...

Friday Night Sew-In Failure...

Oops!  Yesterday afternoon I momentarily forgot it was Friday Night-Sew-In and asked someone around for tea.  Someone who isn’t a sewer!  Yeah, that was smart - not!!

So, I didn’t get a whole lot done…I had planned to make a bag and I did start…I did cutting out stuff in between kitchen duties and pinning stuff after my friend had gone home. While there were still a few hours left of Friday night and the actual sewing part won’t take too long I have to make binding before I go much further and I am slllllooooowwww at making binding so, as I was tired. and had to get up really early this morning as DF R, Mistea & I are off to play at Immerse Yourself in the lovely Yarra Valley, I called it quits and went to bed.  The most I managed was this…

Not a very good effort hey?  Maybe it will be Saturday Night Sew-In at my house…after spending the day playing at the sewing retreat day I’m sure I”ll be pumped and ready to go …. to bed!  He he he

Happy Stitching…

P-Bot Joins the Team at Chez Jindi...

Still catching up...

Sunday, after working on the Never Ending Wagga and tidying up the disaster that was the cutting/sewing table, I once again picked up a box containing a kit for a  Vintage Ric Rac creation that had been sitting patiently on the corner since we played at Daylesford Craft Expo...and in a fit of "I'm just going to make that!"...P-Bot was born...

P-Bot

Isn't she cute?...She informs me that now she is out of the box she is going to take up residence on said corner and supervise proceedings...seems while she was waiting patiently she got to like it there and wants to stay and play.

Happy Stitching...

6-12...

At least last week ended on a high note...Friday bringing a regular class at Threadbear Castlemaine...6-12...that's 6:00pm to midnight...6 hours of stitchiness...a group of 8 that has been together now for about 5 or 6 years I think, typically I can't remember timelines...always a good night…I even managed to sew!  Amazing...I took three projects along and did a little on each...

…retraced the design which had faded on this Cinderberry Stitches project from Inspired Stitches in April and put in a few stitches......almost a hexagon diamond for Bumb'le Bee......and some stitching on a Gardener's Journal stitchery...

...then there was shopping...oops!...I kind of came home with souveniers...oh well, you get that...

...mylar circles to make applique circles that bit easier and more circular (well, here's hoping) and some fabric just because it's gorgeous...

And this fabric…

...which called out to me at the start of the evening and whispered...bag...I caved a few hours later and added it to my "pile" on the counter...the pattern is already out and ready to go it just needed fabric...the pattern was bought at The Village Patch in Maldon in May when we were at retreat, DF Andrea and I buying the two copies left in the shop.  Andrea has already made hers and she tells me it took only two hours so now all I need is a couple of hours to focus and get it done...mmm, focus, that could be the problem...anyway...

Happy Stitching...

The Never Ending Wagga...

Not a lot of stitchiness happened at Chez Jindi the past week or so... the week fell apart when it came to needle and thread...not a good state of affairs at all...not well, struggled through work shifts, no energy or motivation to do anything and basically a danger to myself and others, sharp objects like needles and scissors best kept well away….I'd already scalded both hands and wrists with boiling soup, the same soup that I'd managed to burn...really, who burns soup!

It started out OK as I spent the whole of the first Saturday of September in the sewing room taking refuge from the deluge that was happening outside and achieving great and wonderous (well for me) progress on a very very neglected UFO…the Never Ending Wagga…(can't even remember when it was started...)...started at the very first retreat Mistea and I went on a number of years past (can’t remember what year but it was this century *LOL*).  We stayed at the school camp at Emerald Lake in the Dandenongs (on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne) and had a lovely time.  The workshop that I wanted to do didn’t have enough particpants so I transferred to the Wagga Workshop…the lady who took the workshop was a very lovely older lady (whose name I can’t remember either) but as her “pattern” is a trifle lean on the detail and as it has been SO long so I touched this project I have no idea what I was actually doing…I had two strips of angles and dangles left to do so I’ve just winged it…it’s OK, it’s that kind of quilt.

The Never Ending Wagga

I finished putting it together this far this last Sunday…still a work-in-progress but getting there…

See you later for more catch-up...(DF R you'll have something to read with your porridge for a few mornings *VBG*)...

Hapy Stitching...

Pochette Production Series on Hiatus...

The mini pochette production line is now down for maintenance...the last one in the series finished (well, it has been finished for a couple of weeks but I'm behind schedule in the blogging portion of the show...so here it is...Mini Pochette - Chocolate...

It is lined with the same orange fabric as the back panel...I really like the fabric combination in this one.  Another present done - yay!

Happy Stitching...

Jindi's Play Date...

Jindi here...yesterday I got to go for a ride in Larry (one of my very favourite things).  The human took me over to her cousin's house so I could play with my cousin Miss Millie - yay! I LOVE visiting Auntie B and cousin Millie...Millie has a tummy full of puppies but she is still able to play.

We got to go for a walk and Auntie B gave us treats, a doggie biscuit, an apple (my favourite) and I even got to have a piece of toast! Millie had stuff put on her toast but the human said I could only have it plain, oh well, it was still yummy...Millie and I helped Auntie B make the toast...

Jindi & Millie Make Taost

We were very helpful...she couldn't have done it without us...

Millie was being very funny and she decided it would be a good idea to stand her back legs on Auntie B on the couch and her front legs on my human in the armchair and lick my human all over...she has a great sense of humour my cousin...I wasn't allowed on the furniture 'coz that is our rule but I was OK with that...it's Millie's house she has different rules...

The is SO Much Water falling out of the sky today and the wind is blowing so hard that I'm staying curled up on my inside bed...the human says that the weather is too awful to anything else so she is going to have to sew...she doesn't seem very upset about that...

Hope you get to stay inside today and keep dry...and I sure am glad we don't live across the ditch in NZ...a place called Christchurch on their south island started shaking this morning and the buildings fell down...I don't think that would be fun at all...I'm glad we only have rain and wind.

Woofs, licks and tail wags...

Jindi...