Small Finishes...

A couple of small finishes this week...first up...one night after work this week the choice was the ironing or...

...make a fabric basket...no contest really...

Christmas Eve my mixer decided it would be a good idea to drop dead right while I was baking biscuits...good one mixer...so I inherited the mother's big version and with it came a cover that was a good 40 years old and well past its use by date...after pulling it apart to get a template and finding some cute Debbie Mumm fabric in the stash the big mixer now has new pyjamas...

No way to make a mixer cover photogenic really.

Yay! two more April OPAM finishes.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Happy Stitching... 

I'd Like...

...to show the candle mat I finished...but I can't...and I'd like to show the framed stitchery I finished...but nope can't show that either...secrets for a swap...

I can show kitchen towels made from hand towels picked up during Safeway (Woolworths for non-Victorians) grocery shopping and curtain fabric samples brought home from work (yay for chuck out pile!)...happy kitchen now has clean new hand towels...

Friday night I journeyed to Threadbear in Castlemaine for 6-Midnight and took P-faff for an outing, using the night to sandwich and quilt a small finished top into a table mat...I couldn't find anything in the fabric emporium that would do for binding so shopping for suitable was the first task of the evening.  I managed to get all the quilting done and the binding stitched on ready to handstitch before I called it a night.

The stitchery in the centre is an Ella & Skysie pattern, the rest I just made up...nothing flash or overly creative going on mind you, just 5" (finished) squares stitched together and quilted in straight lines but it did the trick.

Started over Easter (and finished the following weekend) this jigsaw...1,000 pieces and measuring 30cm x 42cm (12" x 14") finished...of course the drawcard was the quilty details...



Happy Stitching...