March Finish

 

My first Santa Snack Mat for the Grandies.  I have one more to make for Christmas 2021.

Still sewing

 Well, I don't know if this will be a Christmas present for a niece or someone else. It is the outer cover of a little sewing case. I'm making the case up as I go along I started the outer sewing on a day course with Angela Daymond. She designs a lot of Kantha projects and is a lovely teacher.

I have also been knitting socks as that is easier for my eyes. I hope to get to the opticians after my second jab. Fine work is out, too many headaches and having to stop frequently.

Happy sewing 

Josie

March: Christmas Flurries

How is everyone's list going?

I have a big finish for March and I'm not sure

where, or to whom, it will be going but it will

definitely be coming out for the holidays!

"Christmas Flurries" (71x71)

I am not a fan of the paper-piece quilting method

but I do love anything with snow and snowflakes

so when I came across this pattern I thought,

Oh why not?

A few weeks into it, I knew all-too-well why not

but I persisted for a few more weeks and I can

now share with you the result.  It's easier to

say now that I'm very glad I chose this one!

I have no idea what I'll be working on for my

next Christmas item but I'll be seeing you all

back here in April with...uh....something!

(Something simpler!!)

March Madness

 My gorgeous little family have moved back to their own lives and my home is super quiet now. So the knitting came out of hiding and I finished off this wash cloth. 

Happy March makes everyone 🎄

A BaG

This roomy & open bag will be great for keeping/carrying projects in then being able to FiND any item inside. 

I think it will make a great gift for Christmas too.
Now I call that a WiN WiN situation...

If you want the BAG details...

please click HeRe or HeRe over on my BLoG...

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I'm late, I'm late.....

 My covid vaccine knocked me out of action for a week. Then the weather slightly improved and I concentrated getting some seeds sewn and my allotment prepped ready for the growing season. Not a lot of time to sew but I did enjoy this Gum Drop Tree.  I have taken liberties with the embellishments, to suit my supplies.

I need to get cracking on this months whilst we have a couple of drizzly days.

I also need to catch up on all the other February additions.

Happy sewing

Josie

Embroidery

I have managed to finish this embroidery this week so I am late for February

 I still need to make it up into a little mini quilt...

Have a lovely March...xx

February Finish

 This was a fun machine embroidery project Oma's Place.  There are a few other designs that I want to try.

Christmas Candle Mat

Michell’s February

 Slowly getting through my stitchery.

First elf is done and now onto the second 

February

 This month I added a cushion to the gift box.
Simple but sweet...

January and February Projects

Hello everyone and thank you for alowing me into the group.

In 2018, I made a couple of reversible scarf bibs for my mother-in-law who was in a nursing home. I thought she could knot it around her neck like a scarf to keep it out of the way of the walker when she went to the dining hall and then pull it down across the front of her shirt to eat. She was very particular about her clothes and her appearance. I tried one out in the car last year when we were on a road trip and found that they weren't quite big enough.

Last month I designed a new pattern and made one scarf bib and this month I made five more. I made these for my mother and her caregiver because they like to eat in their recliners in front of the tv and they eat in the car if they just don't want to cook for themselves.

I think my mother-in-law only used her scarves twice when we took her out to eat, and she made a loop around her neck and pulled the ends through the loop - like in the first picture. After lunch, she took it off and stuffed it in her purse. She refused to eat in the dining hall in the nursing home and once she was confined to bed, she rarely got dressed. I hope the new scarves I made get used.

February's Christmas Project

I'm a little early but we have some travel coming

up and I'm just trying to get some things checked

of the list.  I like to leave with everything done!

One of my goals this year is to use up

all of the triangle trimmings I've saved from

some of my favorite quilt projects.  I've finished

sewing them into HST's--I'm estimating over

2,000 of them!--so it's time to start on some

scrappy mini-quilts.

My first project with them is this little table runner.

9 x 17.5

Having the HST's and the binding (scrap also!) 

ready allowed me to get this whipped up in 

just an hour or so.

The trimmings are from this quilt that I gifted to

my sister's husband several years ago.

I still have lots of coordinating fabric so I want to

get some coasters made and have a nice set

ready to be gifted to them next Christmas.

Getting all of those HSTs sewn up was a bit of

a struggle but it made for good tv-sewing while

we watched football and now that I have all

of these ready to go for playing around with, it

was all very worth it!  I'm excited to see what

other fund and quick minis I can come up with!

Michell’s January

After not posting on here for a long time I am going to make an effort and do it monthly.  However I did do Xmas stuff last year.

This month I have started a new project.

Though I have stitched more than the picture below now, I am away on holiday writing this and have not got the project with me, so look for it next month.

What I have finished is the first elf. I was going to take a picture the night before leaving but got sidetracked. 

And best of all my S titching mojo is returning ❤️

So that’s my January post finally done.

 

In JaNuaRY

 I finished off this wall hanging called...

Santa Rides... 

Thanks Narelle... for hosting us all again in 2021...

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