June and August

What can I say?

My brain seems to have gone on leave 

and it forgot to tell me

leaving my body wandering along oblivious

and doing quite daft things!

I really thought I had posted June's item here

but it seems not

so here it is now :)

The last stitched part 

of this year's longer-to-do project

My label :)

 

Next is to put it all together

hope my brain hangs around for that :)

 plus

my item for August

a simple stitchery designed by Gail Pan

I did have an item finished for July

though I'm having some difficulty getting good photo's

so hopefully that will show up sometime this month too :)

So sorry Narelle for being all over the place with my showing and telling!

May you all have a lovely jingly-making September

Sisbabe  

Santa and the Mouse is Done!

I missed posting in July, as life was just too busy. 

This month I am thrilled to say I finally finished cross-stitching the Heaven and Earth Designs retired freebie chart of Santa and the Mouse. (It is a smaller section of this chart.)

I also added a Christmas tree seam and an angel seam to a crazy quilted stocking for my youngest son. 

Next month, I hope to have more finishes. I have a few items that are all stitched and just waiting for me to pull out my sewing machine to transform them into gifts.

Narelle, thank you for offering this blog. It is so nice to have so much progress on Christmas gifts and projects before the end of November this year.

Quiet In The Workshop

Helloooo .... yes it's me .... chief elf :o)  My sincere apologies for being such a slack chief around the Christmas workshop lately .... just time being gobbled up by all the 'life' stuff I'm afraid .... and that 4 letter word 'work' .... and DD's wedding coming up in less that 2 weeks now!  Any crafty time has been wedding decorations and one other monthly sewing target.

2015

However I am remaining positive and am sure Christmas gift making will return with still a few months yet to add to my stash ... it's never too late to get ahead, right?

Thank you to those lovely elves who continue to make and share your Christmas goodies here with everyone .... lots of gorgeous, sweet, clever and cheeky inspiration.

Happy Christmas Sewing .... looking forward to your August posts.