Your lucky day!

 Yes! two posts in one day from me, what ever is going on!

So this one is just a catch up post with what I have been up to this week.

Christmas was quiet but pleasant and we are now in that twixmas period. I have been enjoying a little hand sewing this week along with a few Christmas specials on TV although some of the repeats are getting very tired now. And no, we did not watch Gavin and Stacy!

I have of course kept up with with my Stitch Journal - and look - just three days to go! and that includes today which I shall work on as soon as I have finished this post.

Not a brilliant photo but the next one will be all pressed and looking lovely.

I have also finished a couple of Field Journal embroideries

These were straightforward - the one I am working on now involves bullion knots and I am slowly working up to them!

My next post will be in 2025. My thanks to everyone who has followed me over the last year and for all your lovely comments, so very much appreciated.

Happy Stitchy 2025.

Chookshed Challenge 2025

 Having looked through my drawers and UFO lists I decided a while ago that I would have enough projects to join in with this challenge in 2025. I have also decided that I will be giving the Rainbow Scrap Challenge a miss in 2025 which will give me more time to work on these projects along with all the other things I am working on or planning.

So here is my list of projects.

1. Another needle minder - I bought the magnet and canvas for this earlier in the year and have decided          that I need another one!

2. Turn my 2024 Stitch Journal pages into a book. This will be a big one as I will need to make two            cover pages as well as join my 12 pages together.

3. Sashiko panel - a kit I bought a few years ago.

4. Sue Hawkins scissor keep - I think I bought this kit a couple of years ago too.

5. Many years ago I mad a whole load of Japanese folded squares which have been sitting in a box ever          since - they need joining together and making into something!

6. I have a lot of hexie flowers from my swap group that need making into something or somethings!

7. I need a cover for a small handmade sketch book I made sometime ago and which looks at me every          day on my desk.

8. I have a quilted applique panel that needs making into a cushion cover.

9. Lavender bag kit I bought earlier this year from a junk shop.

10. Large tote bag for carrying quilting projects to my quilt group.

Many thanks to Deana for organising this challenge - I shall be linking up with her.

FNSI December

 

First of all many thanks to Wendy for organising our Friday Night Sew In's again this year.

As usual I started the afternoon with my Stitch Journal and Fridays star was the middle one of the bottom three.

Sorry for poor photograph - another grey damp day here.

I then walked to our nearest coffee shop with a neighbour and spent an enjoyable couple of hours catching up. However, when we left it was tipping down and we both arrived home looking like drowned rats!

I have completed the quilting on the first outer border of Wings and Pretty things.

Sooo good to have reached the edge. One down, three to go but I have now folded it away until after Christmas as space is at even more of a premium at the moment!

So yesterday evening I pulled out my Field Journal folder where fortunately the next few are already drawn up. This sweet little plant was very quick and easy to stitch up and I am looking forward to working on another one this evening.

I have started on some crochet this week - sorry no pictures but oh is it gorgeous! Some beautiful handspun yarn in a lovely colour combo. Pictures next time.

Meanwhile, I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and I hope you have time for some quiet sewing in amongst all the busy festivities!

Mid December already!

 And what a grey and dismal week it has been! The storm last Saturday was as bad as forecast with lots of damage in the county and West of the country. Fortunately we survived damage free, we are in a dip and do not catch the worst of the wind. However, I did enjoy sitting indoors and watching all the leaves from the trees to the front of our house skip away across the surface of the park! Hardly any left on the trees now. Since then we have had grey weather and yesterday was particularly damp and dismal but today is a bright sunny day with lots of blue sky.

As usual I have been enjoying my stitch journal.

I have been thinking for the last month or so about how I can continue on with this but in my own way. I have all these nice solar dyed threads and fabrics left from my boro flower panel - see header picture -

and thought that it would be nice to make use of them. So I have decided to use them to make a daily stitch roll using this lovely old mill spool that I picked up recently in a charity shop.

So I am all ready now to start stitching on January 1st.

And to keep myself on track I have decided a daily post on Instagram will make sure I am up to date.

I have been quilting this week too - no pictures - and have also finished these Kingfisher socks.

So Christmas knitting all done and dusted. Christmas decorations have gone up this week and I had a present wrapping session one afternoon. Just a few more to do. We shall be entertaining twice over Christmas so now I need to plan my menus!

Have a good week everyone and happy stitching.

Friday Night with Friends December

 

Friday was a grey and windy day so after a trip to the supermarket we were happy to spend the day indoors. So straight after lunch I got on with my stitch journal - a new page now for December and we are all starry!

These are quick and fun to work.

I have been busy the last few weeks quilting the wide border of Wings and this week I came to the end of all the cross hatching. Just so happy with how it is looking.

Now to work on the outer borders. I spent some time yesterday marking up the feathers along one edge and in the evening made a start on the quilting.

We are in the middle of storm Darragh today. We had a red weather warning this morning expiring at 11.00am but I am pretty sure the winds have been stronger since we moved down to an amber warning! Strong enough to blow over my cast iron garden chairs anyway. Evidently we are to expect another 24 hours of strong winds so plenty of time to play in the kitchen - mince pies need to be made as we have finished the first batch - and with my sewing.

Have a good weekend every one.