It's CTTY time again

Christmas Through The Year is hosted by Anthea at Hibiscus Stitches.

Do go and have a look to see what everyone has been stitching and maybe link up with your own project. There are a couple of lovely items already linked up so have a look and you might get some inspiration for your own projects.

Here is my project for the month.

This is about 9" square and uses a Gail Pan embroidery for the centre. It can either be used as a table centre or using the little corner flaps on the back be hung on the wall.

Happy Christmas stitching.

Friday Night Sew In comes round again.....

...... and the months are rolling by!

Many thanks to Wendy for inviting us round again.

My Friday was spent finishing this piece of embroidery

which was designed by Wendy. You can see her post about it here on her Sugarlane Designs blog. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it and knew it would be perfect for a friends birthday that is coming up next month. Thank you very much Wendy. Now all I have to do is find a frame!

Hope you all had a good FNSI and I shall be having a look to see what everyone got up to soon.

Back on line and catching up

Isn't it horrid when you have no internet connection? We were offline most of the time for just over a week and with no telephone so I was feeling very cut off. Occasionally we had a brief connection and were able to download emails but that was even more frustrating as all I got was little snippets of blogs, needing to go online to read the rest. However, touching wood and crossing fingers all has now been well for a couple of days and so it is time to do some catching up.

First of all I have not shown you my July swap ATC's.

Here is the beautiful organza rose that I received from Kate

And this is my flower themed ATC that I sent to Julie

It was also my TAST fly stitch sample

Here is my pink BOM for August

called 'Hill and Valley'.

There has been a lot of secret stitching going on so no pictures but when not doing that I have been working on my August crazy block which now looks like this.

Taking my time for the last couple of days has been a small visitor and her parents. Here she is at a local funfair yesterday - always happy to pose for a photo!!

So that's all for now - lots of blog reading to catch up on so see you soon.

Blowing my own trumpet!!

The Autumn issue of Crazy Quilt Quarterly is now available and guess who has a piece of work shown in it? Yes, me!!
Pam Kellog asked for pictures of spiders webs and so I sent this picture

which I am delighted to say that she used, I am so pleased.

On the subject of crazy patch I have completed my July block and here are a few pictures of it.

After a cooler week - but very little rain - we have had a couple of hot days and now I can hear thunder rumbling around. It would be lovely if we could have some decent rain overnight, hopefully without any strong winds.

Hope you all have a good week.

Christmas Through The Year!

It's the first time that I have linked up with CTTY - thank you Anthea for hosting this and I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else has been doing as I am looking for ideas!!

So this is my first Christmas finish

A lovely Gail Pan design mini quilt.

Am busy working on my next item now.

July FNSI and TAST samples

Thank you to Wendy for hosting again. Just click on her name to go and see what everyone else was doing.

Our hot dry weather continues so it is good to be indoors in the afternoons. I made a start on embellishing my latest crazy block

working this seam using Fly stitch which was this weeks TAST stitch.

I worked a row of long tailed fly stitches first in pink then another row of mauve short tailed fly stitch inside each cup. The cups are filled with ribbon stitch and decorated with crystal beads.

I also did this little piece of work using much freer fly stitches.

Hope everyone had a good FNSI and that you will have a great weekend.

EPP Tuesday and a June finish

It's Piece Yourself Together time again - thank you to Anthea for hosting this link again.

Click on Anthea's name above and you will find the other participants on the right hand side of her blog.

Now, first of all I wrote a blog post for the last PYT link and then forgot to link up! How silly is that? You can read that post here.

Since then not much has happened on the EPP front except that yesterday afternoon with half an eye on this motley crew

playing their Bastille Day bowls competition, I managed to baste quite a few 1/2" hexies.

 

I have also sent off my hexie swap flower for July but as usual forgot to photograph it!

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I finished my June CQJP block last week - this is the finished block with a few closeups

The Dorset Posy in the bottom right corner is not a fixture yet - I am not sure if I like it there or not as I feel it might be a bit too 'heavy'

Anyway, this afternoon I put together my block for July and this is it.

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We had friends staying at the weekend and on Sunday morning we went to visit an Open Garden belonging to friends of friends about half an hour south of here. Their beautiful garden contains lots of lovely banana palms which are the gardeners current passion! He even has one with bananas on!

Here are a few more pictures of the garden.

Our garden will never look that neat and tidy!

Have a great week.