February Finishes...

Well a February finish...but as this finish is a pair the plural in the title is working to help fool myself of greater accomplishments because the actual accomplishment isn't all that awesome...

...a pair of serviettes to go in the felt serviette rings that got the guernsey as last month's finish...

...yep 2012 is definitely off to a less than flying start in the stitching stakes...I seem to be up to the speed of a snail going backwards!!  It has taken me weeks (seriously, weeks) to put binding on two squares of fabric (twice).

Hope you are achieving more than I am...it would be hard to achieve less!!!!

Happy Stitching...

FNSI...I Actually Did Some Stitching...

Last night was Friday Night Sew-In hosted by Heidi & Bobbi...I looked around at the various projects in need of attention and settled on the hexagons I started last week as most likely to get to a stage where I'd feel like I'd achieved something...they were all ready they just needed to be stitched together.  After making a Coles run for macadamia dairy milk (yay on special!) to keep me going, I settled down on the couch with the stack of hexies, my block of chocolate and Macbook for iView catch up tele and I was away...resulting in...

 ...a ring of hexie flowers...

and for me a successful FNSI (for once!)...YAY!

Happy Stitching...

I Lost the Fight...

The fight not to start any new large projects until I've liberated fabric from ones already on the go that is...but...

I've been fighting the urge to start one of this year's Summer School projects since I returned from Blackheath...last night I lost the argument with myself...*sigh*...

Hexies ready to be stitched into rosettes for the first round...and order placed for papers required for the rest of the quilt...

I found $10/metre fabric for this quilt's wide borders from one the shops in attendance at Summer School (and nope can't remember which one) and then I found three of their $5.00 scrap bags which worked just nicely with that fabric - bargain!  Other fabric needed will be scrounged from the on-site Fabric Emporium...such fun playing mix and match with fabric...

Happy Stitching...

Oh Good Grief...And Now It's February Already!!!...

And I'm up to blog post number 2 for the year...this is not a good start....good thing it is the beginning of February so I've got all month to get caught up (yeah like that is ever going to happen).  Aside from anything else it proves that I've managed to achieve very little in the sewing room for weeks and weeks...there was of course the quilty adventure to Blackheath, but aside from that I could probably count stitchy days on my fingers without the need to remove socks and include toes...so in an effort to get back into the whole stitchy bloggy thing (reading and commenting went out of the window as well)...here is what I made in January (I'm a bit late for OPAM reporting oh well)...

...felt serviette rings (no sewing required)...the serviettes are still under construction because apparently it is way hard to stitch around two squares of fabric!

I have managed in the last week to get some actual stitchy progress made on My Favourite Things quilt for the Some Kind of Wonderful Stitch-A-Long...

I had an hour to spare Sunday morning last week before going around to the fire station for Sunday stuff and got the itchin' for stitchin' on this project and I was certainly not going to ignore that itchin'...it was time to act...I've left the project box in the lounge in full view all week and it has resulted in the applique part of the blocks getting underway.  Sure, the stitchery part isn't done, there is a bit missing from the suitcase (the name tag label...oops! seems I forgot to include that bit when preparing the block) and the patty cakes need their cherry decorations but hey, it's a start and not too shabby for a week that also included two new working environments!...


The take-a-long project for craft group/friendship group when I've actually managed to go in the last few months has been the snowball borders for Bumb'le Bee.  One border was completed and stitched on in Karen's class at Summer School (it is one of her quilts).  Today between one job and the next I went to Monday Group for a while and managed to get the second border almost stitched on, I was about two snowballs from the end when I had to leave for the next job...guess what took priority when I was home from work for the day...the second border is on!

The project box for this one is also sitting on the lounge room coffee table mocking me and it seems that has worked...OK it probably helps that my working circumstances have changed again and is currently more regular hours with much less travel (well as from last week anyway - let's see how long it lasts!) so I'm not getting as tired and I have the head space and energy to stitch.

I'm trying the same methodology with my TAFE assignment, so far the mocking hasn't been loud enough but it really does need to start yelling as it is due at the end of the month...gulp!...mmm, maybe the stitching isn't going to be centre stage for a few weeks yet.

Happy Stitching...