Hello

After a very difficult and different year, I would like to thank everyone for continuing to read and comment on my blog space, it means a lot.

Here are a couple of Christmas Photo’s and I wish everybody a safe and happy Christmas and hopefully a much better 2021.

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Bye for now!

Daisy and Hetty

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Hello Everybody

As in another post I mentioned that I have finished my practice session on the Snowmen Panel and it is hanging in the window as we converse.

Apart from that I have only managed to sew together a couple of the Rose Window Quilt Blocks whilst at work during my lunch break but it is all getting very busy. We have just visited some friends but remained outside and kept it short as the weather is inclement today and as it was to be the lady’s 80th birthday we didn’t want them to get cold.

Well here are the blocks (apologies about the grainy fuzzy photos), blocks 1 and 2 of Row 10. Not far to the end of this quilt top.

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Well that is me – why not pop along and see what other creatives are happening. I’m sure there are lots of Christmassy things being created that cannot be viewed yet.

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and hopefully 2021 will be the start of something better.

Bye

Daisy

Hello

Well I have finished my snowmen panel which is to be hung in the window of my room. I was mainly stitching this as a trial to find out how my hand-stitching would look when I start my Seasonal Quilt. I’m quite please although sometimes my stitches were irregular in length. Practice makes perfect after all!!!!

Here are some pictures showcasing various aspects (sorry about the lighting and grainy effect) it is not a bright day here in Blighty we have a blanket of thick fog outside.

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As you can see I have highlighted specific items with metallic thread. I think the hardest decision is when to stop and not overdo the titivating.

The back of the design is red polka dot fleece material and when hung in the window shines through to the front design creating a warm glowing effect as below.

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Well now I have to finish off the table runner that I started ages ago (UFO). Pictures in a later post.

Bye for now

Daisy

Hi Everybody

It is that time of year when we all turn our thoughts in one way or another towards Christmas, and I am no exception.

I have finished something which I will post later, but have to admit to not doing heaps of work on my Teacups. So here is where I was last time …….

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And here is where I am now ……..

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Have you noticed my cute little magnetic needle holder!

One final push on this and it should be finished.

Well that is me, now pop along to the other members of our blog group and see how they have progressed.

Bye for now

Daisy

Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, MaryMargaret, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Helen

Hello Everybody

Hope you are all well.

Life at work is still manic, but I have managed to continue sewing some of the Rose Window Blocks, and have laid them out in the design I like at the moment (of course that is open to alterations). It became more and more difficult to construct a block without matching up the same material design.

This is how the two halves look at the moment, (bottom line in first photo has been changed and is now first line in second photo). 12 lines in total. Then I will have to think about the border.

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As you can see the bottom half has quite a few blocks to sew together.

Apart from that, I sorted out some scraps and cut them up into squares, triangles etc ready to use on another design.

before after

That is me for this time.

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Bye

Daisy

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Gretchen, Daisy, Connie, Monica and Sherrie

Hello Everybody

Hope everyone is still well and safe.

I haven’t achieved much sewing so without further ado, here is where I was last time

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And here is where I am now …

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Why not pop along to the other members of oour group to see how they are faring.

Bye for now

Daisy

 Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, MaryMargaret, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Helen

Hi Everyone

I am on holiday from paid work this week, so after helping out in the Garden with Hubby on a very nice but chilly day yesterday, I decided that today was my day for stitching and catching up with penpals and of course playing with Hetty, my bird.

I also have two finishes to report that are not part of my SAL or HQAL groups.

Firstly I have completed a small object which has now become a present for Christmas and as the recipient might read the blog, I cannot actually reveal too much. Only that I have been toying around with a few ideas and well I guess you would say this item is the prototype. At some stage, I hope to open an “ETSY Shop” but I have just found out that due to the new Lockdown being announced it appears to have gone BARMY at work again!!! Will it ever slow down – to take a breath – I feel that I will go back to a muddle and lots of stock having been sold and a lot of stock to be received in. I mustn’t worry but I do.

Anyhow I digress – next finish was a jumper that I started many moons ago (a very old UFO). I used three different coloured balls of wool, cream, lilac and a variegated lilac in a stripey style. Here is a photo of the finished item.

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The only bit that was standard was the ribbing, everything else was how it came off the ball as I had re-winded swapping between colours erratically.

Bonus that I haven’t put too much weight on and it still fits – snuggly.

Hetty – my Meyer’s Parrot has had a lovely day today. Here is what she has to say on the subject.

“Hello” – “mummy spent lots of time with me today despite the fact that yesterday I was very screechy. She has tidied my cage and created new toys for me, as well as made a new swing which I always chew the rope until it breaks. I fall off but never learn. Birdbrain you see!! Here are some pictures of me asking for a kiss”.

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“Yes that beak can do serious damage. But I love mummy and only give her gentle warning bites (doesn’t break skin) on her fingers. Not often I must add – when I’m hormonal usually.”

Well, must go now – I’ve a long letter to write.

Daisy

Hi Everybody

I have been making good progress on the Teacups cross stitch, so here we go

This is where I was last time

And this is where I am now …..

As you can see I rolled back to start filling in the gaps.

Please pop along to the other members projects to see how they have fared this last 3 weeks. We all stitch individual projects and encourage one another to finish UFO’s or complete a new project.

Bye for now

Daisy

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Gretchen, Daisy, Connie, Monica and 

Sherrie

Hello everyone

I have made good progress this time on my Teacups – so without further ado here is where I was last time …….

and this is where I am presently ….

As you can see the top cup is completed, now I just need to fill in any gaps. A “happy dance ” is not far away.

Thanks for reading, so now pop along to the other members of our small sewing group and see what individuals have been working on.

Bye

Daisy

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, MaryMargaret, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Helen

Hi Everybody

I haven’t done a book post or even updated my 20 for 20 – which considering the altered world that we live in at the moment I think it will get abandoned.

However, I have finished reading a rather large tomb which is written in the style of the wonderful Jane Austen. Here is a picture

This was my bedtime read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has the same little twists that Jane puts in her book Pride and Prejudice and I think you will view Mary in a rather different light after reading this. May not be everyone’s cup of tea.

The other item that has occupied my time (when I haven’t got a needle and thread in it) is attempts at poetry. I have written several poems but I want to make them into a book if possible – there is a theme but it is a secret at the moment and things are in are in their infancy.

Instead I will leave you with a poem by John Keats called very appropriately

“To Autumn”

To Autumn

John Keats – 1795-1821

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
  Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
  With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
    To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
    For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
  Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
  Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
  Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
    Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
  Steady thy laden head across a brook;
  Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
    Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
  Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,–
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
  And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
  Among the river sallows, borne aloft
    Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
  Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
  The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
    And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

It is beautiful is it not?

Bye for now

Daisy