Firstly, I hope Tracy has a speedy recovery and stay safe.
Now onto the stitching , I have made generous progress with stitches to the Teacups cross stitch, so here are the pictures.
before
Here is where i am now
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.
In the meantime please pop along to see what the other group members are working on.
My favourite time of year, warm jumpers, snuggling under quilt/blanket, warm cup of tea (or something else), a good book, sewing, knitting, quilting …. what’s not to love.
Hope you are all keeping well and safe. It has been a few gloomy days here in Old Blighty and I had Friday off work – it’s still busy at work and next week I have to cover for my work colleague who is on holiday, so another hectic week ahead. Well what was a woman to do on a misery wet and windy day – sewing whilst dowloading Windows 10 onto my laptop (I know I am very late to the party!!!) but it was a success.
Therefore, I will show you how far I have got with my Cups Cross stitch
This is where I was ………
And this is where I am now ……..
This is the last cup and I think my favourite. I love the top decoration to this cup.
Have you got a favourite one yet?
We are a small group of like minded sewing people, who all work on individual projects and offer encouragement to one another. Please pop along to see the projects of other members.
To practice hand sewing a quilt I have started a new fun project which is much smaller and more manageable I think. It is only two layers – a red spotted fleece back and the cotton top which I have back stitched around the head of the new snowman and high-lighted some areas with metallic thread. What do you think?
red metallic thread on collar and green on gloves
Also I have purchased some new stash, with ideas in mind for some of it and the rest will have to wait until I have an idea or see a quilt pattern which I would like to try. I must try and finish something – it is a weakness of mine – to never complete things before starting something new. Ah well!
Finally, but no means least, I have completed enough Rose Window Blocks to reach the half way mark.
Where to start – at the beginning I guess – I have sewn together white hexies for the Seasonal Quilt and now I need to create some end pieces and attach those to the main quilt – then the top will be complete.
I have also made good progress on the “Cups” cross stitch and I am now on the final cup so filling in any gaps etc and then it will be complete – happy dance soon!!!
Here is where I was last post ……
and here is where I am now …..
I have loads to tell and show but that is for another post.
Hope everybody and everybirdy is well and healthy.
I haven’t blogged for a while but Mummy was angry with me yesterday because of my chewing habit. Well I ask you what is a parrot to do? I have plenty of toys to amuse me – it’s not that I am bored but I do have the habit of being naughty and chewing things I am not supposed too.
Here is the photographic evidence of my misdemeanor …..
The beak
Hetty Bird – the Beak
My cage with toys and perch
Perch which I destroyed
I wasn’t that clever because this is the perch I sleep on at night and I was actually standing on it whilst pecking it to bits and had a mad flutter just after Mummy had cleaned the room causing feathers and dust to fly everywhere. Her main concern was that I wasn’t hurt and she replaced the perch immediately.
It is my Birthday today, I’m not at work, but my lovely manageress came to my house yesterday with a present and card from my work colleagues, really chuffed.
Here is what they bought me
Here are a collection of my other presents before and after
Before
Various cards – friends and familyMother and Younger Brother
My husband bought me some lovely flowers and when I get around to it – I need to upgrade to Windows 10, so either a new laptop with Windows 10 or just the upgrade (I love my current laptop) Also need to replace my printer. Very time consuming and I am not that proficient with all the gadgetry.
Now the after’s
I feel very cherished. My husbands card is the one with the dachshund as he knows I want one for real. Ahh! don’t you just love his little frown.
I have a mix of things to show you,(this post is quite picture heavy), but first I am in need of some assistance – having recently collected from my Mother’s house the boxed Singer Sewing Machine that I used when I was younger, mainly to shorten my skirt lengths. It is a hand worked machine, had issues with stopping an electric one.
Here are some pictures, and it is the different feet included with this machine but no instructions that I have the query with. So if anybody knows what they are can you please list them starting from left to right, top row and bottom row.
My Singer Sewing Machine
Singer in its very heavy Walnut Box
Well, onto sewing things, in my blog yesterday I mentioned some new stash and here are some pictures of the centre panel (very colourful)
I have planned the design, but that will have to wait for now, but it will be very colourful and bold. Not decided on hand sewn or machine sewn. Might call this Supernova or Firecracker or Phoenix as in birth of a phoenix, not sure, as you may have guessed. Very excited though to get in the swing of sewing again – hot weather made me not wanting to sew much, and feeling well generally lacking in enthusiasm for anything and then back to work – very heavy duty again, generally tired all the while.
Hope someone can help with the naming of feet pictured above, very much appreciated.
Well what can I say , it would appear that I missed out a week and forgot to post on the other SAL that I am participating in.
However, I had a fairly successful week of staying at home making loads of Rose Window Blocks and also made some good progress on the Teacups Cross Stitch. My mind was buzzing with ideas as I had taken delivery of some new stash and I needed to plan out how this new quilt design was going to look. Once that was settled, I could sit back and actually get on with some sewing.
Amazingly I have sewn the side panel on the Seasonal Quilt, so only have to finish the other side and sew and few end pieces on the top section and it will be complete. The weather was very changeable when I was off work, first it was too hot (34 degrees C) – hardly anything was accomplished and then it stormed and cooled down to a comfortable 25 degrees, so I set too …… also part of the stash was the material I found and will use as backing to my Seasonal Quilt. (So happy when I saw this online at Sew Hot – it is called Rainbow Sprinkles Swiss Dots by Andover Fabrics)
Backing Fabric
First some Rose Window Blocks – I now have 52 completed blocks and loads more pieces cut and sorted. (Only another 44 to make ……….)
Rose Window Blocks
Secondly Teacups Cross stitch
Here is where I was……..
And here is where I am now
Well talking of tea -I’m off to make one …. ta rah! for now
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.
I love to share my Quilting projects with other Quilters. My goal is to share my progress on projects that I am working on. I would love for you to follow along with me during my endeavors. I hope you enjoy watching me tackle new techniques and projects. Hopefully you can learn from my "hiccups" and mistakes and make your journey easier.
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