Yes, finished already, although I loved doing this so much it was hard to put down. So here it is - my Sue Hawkins Fritillary thread cutter pocket and matching magnets.
Saturday, 11 October 2025
October Chookshed Challenge - a finish!
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Blast from the Past!!
Very strangely, this post appeared today as being unpublished! Written in 2015 where on earth has it been sitting. So just to get it out of the unpublished box here it is - enjoy. xx
It's Piece Yourself Together time again - and thanks to Anthea for hosting this linky.
Sad to say - I have done no EPPing over the last fortnight!! But I have remembered a small project that I did a few years ago that you may be interested in.
Averil Colby was a well known patchworker back in the 50's 60's and 70's. She wrote several books including one on patchwork which covers the history of patchwork as well as her own EPP methods and work.
In 2011 the Quilt Museum and Gallery in York held an exhibition of her work and I was asked to make a handling sample based on one of her quilts.
This quilt is called High Summer. I apologise for the quality of the pictures, I had to scan them from the book as I cannot find any pictures online.
I would have loved to see the exhibition as this quilt must be stunning.
And here is my sample based on a small section of the centre panel.
It's about 8" square. You will notice that there is still some tacking holding three papers in place. This was because the sample was not backed in order to show the construction method.
Saturday, 4 October 2025
FNWFs October
Storm Amy is passing through and from where I am sitting I can see the trees on the green swaying in the wind. We had rain most of yesterday, Friday, and a lot overnight. So yesterday was a perfect day to stay home, bake, paint and sew.
As always the first thing on my list was to work on my Stitch Journal and Friday's contribution was the red black and yellow woven crosses centre right. This picture shows my work for the week
and these the month of September.
After the hot dry summer, our fuchsias now have a new lease of life and the flowers are fabulous. I started a small watercolour of the flowers on one of my plants.
These flowers need more depth of colour and then I shall move on to the leaves. Time passes quickly when concentrating on this.
Then in the evening I was working on my Chookshed Challenge which is coming along nicely. I am having to pace myself here otherwise it would be finished in no time!
Philip has been clearing out the greenhouse now that the tomatoes have finished and I was asked! to remove 4 solar dye jars which I had forgotten about. So far I have emptied 2 and these are the results.
and this to the right towards Watchet which is around the headland.
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Chookshed Challenge - the last for 2025
And it is #1 and one I have been really looking forward to! On my list it was a needle magnet covered in canvas work embroidery. Having bought a lovely Sue Hawkins kit at Festival of Quilts I added that to my #1 and am planning to use the leftover threads - there are usually plenty - to make my magnet cover to match the kit.
This is the kit, a cover for a thread cutter.
Of course I was itching to start and so I did at the weekend. Here is my progress so far.
And I love it. For once these colours are pretty true to life, and just gorgeous. So some happy stitching ahead.
I case you missed it my post for the September challenge and finish is here.
Thank you Deana.
I will be back later in the week, in the meantime happy stitching.
Saturday, 27 September 2025
October is fast approaching!
We had a lovely week away in Cornwall arriving home last weekend. Somewhere along the way I picked up a cold so have not been very productive this week although have read a couple of books. So lets start with Cornwall.
We stayed in the same house as before with its lovely views of St Ives across the bay. Unfortunately some poor weather meant that the view disappeared on occasions but despite the weather we still had a great time. We went for a return visit to Godrevy this time getting closer to the lighthouse than before. However it was a stormy day and apart from a quick 15 minute walk between showers downpours we happily sat in the car and watched the waves crashing. And it was pretty spectacular.
We had been aiming for the top car park but while we were sitting in the lower one they closed the road due to the high winds.
We managed to pick a dry day for a visit to the Lizard and on our last day - also dry we went to Mousehole (mouzle for those who don't know).
I managed to pick up the cold somewhere on the way home and have been feeling under the weather this week although we enjoyed a night away in Axminster on Monday to see Francis Rossi of Status Quo playing some great Quo songs. No pics as they were not allowed😒
I have kept my Stitch Journal up to date - this is the last week and a half
I am looking forward to getting on with my last Chookshed Challenge this week - I will post about it during the week. In the meantime enjoy your weekend.