Secrety Stitching...

It's been slow stitchy time lately but deadlines are being met...Santa has picked up my SSCS present and popped it on his sleigh for delivery to ??? in ???...mmm, wonder to whom and to where it could be going???

The sky falling today meant there was nothing for it but to spend the day in the sewing room...plans for weeding on a grand scale and washing Jindi shelved...the dog may be pleased she avoided being washed but until she smells better she is relagated to outdoors which doesn't please her at all, tough!...rifling through old magazines looking for inspiration, which wasn't forthcoming without help, I settled on a mug bag...all it needs is cord or ribbon for the drawstring...of course the ribbon I found which was the perfect colour wasn't long enough...I'll have to wait until Monday now when the local habby is open, fingers crossed they have the colour I've now decided is perfect...I've also completed projects for a group I'm a member of...a quilt-as-you-go-hexi for new club banner for next year's quilt show, stitchery block for annual Christmas break-up block raffle, a Kris Kringle present...the pincushion is from Anni Downes book, Some Kind of Wonderful, which of course is the current Stitch-a-Long which I must get to starting now that I've almost met all of the swap/Kris Kringle/group project deadlines...I did say almost, still a few bits and bobs to go before I can get to SKOW...and two triangle pouches, which is what you get when you automatically cut two pieces of main fabric and two pieces of lining for a bag when setting out to make one triangle pouch, oh well I've got one in reserve now for another time.

I was a bit worried about the potential "fiddlyness" of the pincushion but it went together very very easily and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, hope it's new stitcher likes it as much as I do...a couple of pics of the detail...

Hope your weekend is stitchy...and dry!...
 
Happy Stitching...