Tis the Season

Here are the rest of my Tis the Season blocks.

Bon Noel Birdies

 Christmas Joy

 

 Chilly Penguins

 Peace on Earth

 Christmas Reindeer

 Christmas Angels

 

Since I took these pictures I have sewn the blocks together, added borders and even quilted it. Just the binding to go. Enjoy your weekend.

Holiday Stitching

As is often the way, I started the holidays with a nasty old cold. Feeling too yuck to do anything vaguely energetic, the first few days were spent in front of the heater, watching Austar and hand stitching. 

I have added these to my growing pile of hexies. (This was the best photo of a bad bunch ... don't you love taking "quilty" photos in winter!!)

Also worked on my Tis the Season stitcheries and feeling much better today, started adding borders to my blocks. I'm using a Glace honeybun to finish this quilt so they will be a few changes to the original design.

 Partridge in a Pear Tree

Tis the Season

Elfin Sleigh

Santa's Boots

Here Comes Santa

Santa and the Christmas Goose

 

Glace is still one of my favourite ranges and I'm pleased to be using this treasured fabric for this lovely Natalie Bird design. Bye for now ... my hexies are calling!

Fussy Cutting

I am continuing to have lots of fun with hexagons. This week I played around with some fussy-cut fabrics and created some rather pretty hexagon flowers.

I am cutting only seven hexagons from each fabric so that every flower will be unique.

 

 Thank you for all the encouraging comments on my last post. A few people were interested in knowing more about the glue method. Sue Daley has a tutorial on her blog that explains it very well. Worth a look.

Just one more week of school for me before the term ends. Really looking forward to some sewing time. I can't remember the last time I used my sewing machine ... but it was quite a few months ago.

The Obsession Continues!

 Not much stitching happened this weekend. However much time was spent cutting ...

and gluing these little beauties!

 

 

 The Vignette Hexagon Quilt requires 139 hexagon flowers which means I have about 60 more flower sets to prepare. It has been fun looking through my stash to find suitable fabrics ... I like that this will be a very scrappy quilt using fabrics from lots of different ranges.

 

Annoyingly, yesterday I ran out of glue. Luckily, Sarah stocks the refills. She is always very prompt in sending out her orders so they will be here in a couple of days.

I've Caught the Bug!

The hexie bug that is! After admiring all the beautiful hexie flowers in blogland I just had to give it a go for myself.

I plan to use fabrics from lots of different ranges in shades of pink, green, red and white.

I have found lots of inspiration and helpful hints in here ...

and at the Vignette Hexagon Quilt blog. 

So far I've finished eight hexie flowers and have many more cut out ready to sew.

 Much as I love stitchery, it's nice to have something a little different to work on in the evenings.

 Only 131 flowers to go ... I could be doing this for quite awhile!

The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas ... block 3 ... "The Presents were Wrapped"

The presents weren't too difficult to applique (nice big pieces) ....

 BUT the poor little mouse is rather ordinary! Especially her feet, hands and ears! Any hints for getting them 'smoother' would be greatly appreciated.

 From the placement of his tail, it would appear Oliver has a similar opinion!

I am really enjoying this block of the month. There seems to be lots of fabric leftover each month .. I'm sure I will find a use for it.

Hatched and Patched Swap

Friends in Stitching recently had an Anni Downs swap. Sue made me this delightful block keeper featuring Anni's Home for Summer stitchery. We are doing a 6 inch BOM this year and this will be perfect to keep them in.

 It has been thoroughly 'cat-scanned' by Oliver!

 Love this photo ... the 'paw print' of approval! Thank you, Sue. I love the design and colours you chose for my gift.

For this swap I made for Sarah. Unknowingly, I had stitched the same design for her gift!

Sarah and I both love Figtree fabrics so I used a mixture of Whimsy and Breakfast at Tiffany's to put this cushion together for her.

It's been a long time since I did any buttonholes but after a couple of practises on some scrap fabric I was confident to go ahead. 

 

After I'd finished I realised I'd done 5 buttonholes ... the pattern only called for 4! Talk about over-enthusiastic!

Today, I've been typing choir scores on the computer in readiness for the Burnie Eisteddfod in a few weeks time. During my absence from blogland my computer 'died' and had to have a major overall. Thankfully, today the printer finally decided it was ready to be re-installed ... just got a major iTunes issue to fix and everything will be back to normal.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Birthday Gifts

Hello. Do you remember me? I have lots to share from the last couple of months.

Now Easter is over I plan to start blogging again on a regular basis. Wish me luck!

I belong to a sewing group called Material Girls. When it was my birthday (in February) each 

of the girls made me a special 'pink' gift.

This pretty needlecase was made by Annie ... love the stitchery.

Christine made this lovely pouch with pretty suffolk puffs on the front.

Another lovely pouch from Lyndy ... I think the pattern was in a Handmade magazine.

Rosemary made me this cute mug holder ...

with lovely pink butterflies.

 

And Vicki made me this wonderful apron ... 

 

with gorgeous machine embroidery

 

... isn't she clever?

Oliver Henry 'helped' take these photos.

This one looks like he's doing a squirrel impersonation!

Bye 'til next time.