made it in time

Little stitchery was a freebie from Lynette Anderson Designs.

Happy Stitchin,

Almost missed April!

Gosh it's quiet in the Workshop this month!

For me was only when I saw Narelle's post that I realised

yep, the 25th means 1 Xmas post time.

It's a bit tricky thinking 

about Christmas in April for us here in Australia.

On the 25th my head was full of the other National 'occasion'.

On the plus side,

it has meant getting this post together has been a 

lovely light ending to the month.

After all, the bravery we honour is about respect for the lives we get to live 

due to their sacrifices.

I reckon that absolutely includes the joy making Christmassy things :)

This month I have been working on

the other progressive project planned for this year.

Step One- stitching a long-ago Bom offered by Gail Pan

Christmas Wishes

The first 3 designs done 

Tick :)

 

 

Sisbabe

Did You Hear A Pin Drop?

It seems to be very quiet in the workshop this month ... quiet enough to hear a pin drop.

Hope you are all simply busy with projects and will be back to share with us all in May.

April - Made It!

Finished the knitting last night and quickly joined this morning. A knitted jar cover for the gift box as a little gift filler...using up wool leftovers a bonus.

This was my March project completed ... the 2nd washcloth is still in ball form pictured above with the jar cover.

Happy Christmas Crafting

Aussie Bush Christmas

One day late for month of March item but I have a good excuse - we are travelling around northern Queensland at the moment and most of you will appreciate there is a distinct lack of telecommunication up here.  Currently at Dimbulah with internet access so I took the opportunity to post my Christmas item. The photo is not very good. It is a Smee Design called Aussie Bush Christmas. Printed in colour on 100% cotton. Stitched in DMC threads. The pattern is mainly backstitched but I have added a few different stitches as I got bored with the backstitch! Only the embroidery is finished this month as I will have to wait until I get home in July to add the borders to make a lovely wall-hanging for one of my overseas children.

Aussie Bush Christmas, embroidery complete

A mini quilt for March

I bought myself a smallish Christmas tree last year

since all my full-grown Christmas stuff is still in storage,

and I'd had enough of not having a tree up :)

It's one of those fibre optic ones, 

really pretty lights :)

However it also has this awful ugly pot

at it's base, yuk!

Now I have a proper little tree quilt

ready for this Christmas

(less than nine months away! eek)

It's about 23" across,

and all from scraps, yay :)

Sisbabe

March Gingerbread Man

 

This little gingerbread man is soooooo unhappy.... someone has taken two bites of him.  He's an easy decoration:  brown felt, small white rick rack, 2 red buttons, and a little thread.      I'm sorry but I don't remember where I got this pattern, it's so old !!

   

But I have enjoyed this monthly blog ---- it makes me finish some of the very old Christmas projects.

Until next month, Blessings, Sandy

March finish

Running late again. I finished this yesterday but couldn't post until this morning as it's school holiday & the desktop was unavailable until now. :)

The Carolers by Natalie Bird.

Happy Stitching,

A little finish

BUT IT IS A FINISH..
I have made a little quilted hexagon coaster. It was a kit that was given to me years ago. Pushed to the back of the cupboard and forgotten about. Time has come to clean out the smaller projects. Tis was an easy one to do...

An Ornament Finish and a Bit of Progress

This month I sewed a crazy quilted circle I completed last October into a Christmas ornament. Sewing circles is not my strong point. Thanks to the beaded edging tutorial I found at Hokkaido Kudasai, it looks a bit more round than it originally did.  

The ornament will be a gift.

On my larger projects, I made a tiny bit of progress. I added a few more snowflakes to my Winter/Christmas wall quilt. Next month, I am going to try adding a flake a day so I might actually finish it this year. (I love the look of the snowflakes, but find I am very s-l-o-w at embroidering them.)

I also finished the little tree scene at the bottom of the Christmas stocking I am working on. (I believe the Santa cross-stitch was from the book Alma Lynne's Country Cross-Stitch. I no longer have the book, so I'm not positive.) My goal is to finish the embroidery on this by next month's update.

Narelle, thank you for your behind the scenes work with our Christmas Workshop. It provides me with motivation when I find mine lacking (or other projects screaming louder for attention.)

Click Go The Needles

Click, click, click ... my knitting needles have been getting short bursts of use in the past week. The first glimmer of a Christmas gift almost ready to go into safe keeping.

I just love working with this wool ... it's called "Giggle" and I get 2 cloths from one ball. They make amazing dust cloths and super soft wash cloths. I also have a ball of white for baby wash cloths.

Wonder how busy our workshop has been this month?

HanGeR

I used Michelle Ridgway's design for the letter K on this Christmas mini hanger.
The finished size is 7 x 7.5 inches.

Thanks Narelle... for hosting us all this month...

February Finish .... Just a Bit Late Posting

Well the end of last month was hectic for me with working full-time (arrghh don't do that often) and any spare moment working on my Master of Nursing assignment (3am finishes) before I took off to Hobart, Australia, so blogging was on the back burner ..... I also misplaced my camera cord so photos were stuck on the camera.

Anyway I did finish a project for February and am just about to completed the March one so will post that one in the next few days.

This "Heart of Christmas" stitchery is a Rosalie Quinlan design I started awhile back but have now finished.  I still have two other to finish and am hoping to this year.

This one is the "Angels" pattern

March Finish

It looks like a lot of people are going to get pillows for Christmas, now that I found the tutorial on Geta Grama's site. They really are fast, though I'm slower than she is! I think it took me 20 minutes, but it was my first one. Now I want to experiment with piecing my own fabric for it. The only thing I will change is using 38" instead of 40". I thought the overlap was too large, more than I usually make, and it made the pillow hard to get in the cover.
 

  This fabric is a soft yellow, with pretty spring flowers on it. I must have succumbed to the lure of spring outside my window, with birds singing and the windows open all over the house. It's 77 out there and sunny off and on!

February Finish

 

The February finish is posting a few days late -- I've been painting a bedroom, cleaning some closets, and generally downsizing..  we're hoping to find a house and move closer to my daughter, son, and granddaughter.

  (I tend to get impatient and have to remind myself that all my plans will fall in place in the Lord's time, not mine.)

 

Anyway, this is for my grandson and his wife. 

The weather is gorgeous, 65 degrees.  Too pretty to be inside but we're repairing a floor....... darn......

Hope all of you are having a wonderful day.  Many blessings,  Sandy