Last Saturday I had the most fantastic day! For the first time in around 12 months I spent the entire day stitching. Not only that, but I spent it stitching with around 100 like minded ladies. Lisa of Fig n Berry Creations runs a couple of stitching soirees each year, but this is the first… Read More
Life here is always extremely busy. So having the opportunity to sit and stitch for 2 hours without children interrupting me, or the husband needing me to do something is a bit of a luxury. Every second Monday night, I indulge in that luxury, by going to Mrs Martin’s Quilt Shop for an evening of… Read More
That is the patchwork top I made last weekend. Ok. So it wasn’t last weekend. I wagged one day last week. Well, sort of. You see, my daughter, who has High Functioning Autism, had her orientation day at secondary school. It was only a half day. And she had to be there at 9am. And… Read More
Monday night I attended my regular sit and sew up at Mrs Martin’s. Over the past year or so I have been slowly working on Leanne Beasley’s “Down In The Garden” project. Initially it took me a while to get started, because I was not sure about cutting into the Rural Jardin fabrics from the… Read More
Here in Melbourne, the first Tuesday in November has been a public holiday for many years, as the ‘race that stops the nation’, the Melbourne Cup, is hosted here, at Flemington Racecourse. I took advantage of having a day off to complete a small patchwork top that I started several years ago when I first… Read More
In August I set a number of goals, but was unable to achieve any of them. So in October I am trying to be more reasonable. In October I am aiming to… complete the first of Blackbird Designs Anniversaries from the Heart – Snow Garden. (Remember I mentioned that I had started this one yesterday?)… Read More
on the first of the month. Well, not really, but it sounds a lot better than August Goals, don’t you think? In August I am planning to: complete Shepherd’s Bush ‘Sophie’s Roses’ complete one row of alphabet on Berthe Massiet (Reflet du Soie) stitch on Blackbird Designs Anniversaries of the Heart complete the embroidery of… Read More
In April, I embarked on the mammoth project that is the Dear Jane quilt. It is not a true reproduction, but rather my version of the quilt made during the American Civil War. Over the last few weeks, I have had a theme for writing about my progress on this quilt bubbling away in my… Read More
I have not been able to do much stitching this week. Between going to bed late as I have watched Le Tour de France (GO CADEL!!!!) and getting up early so I could go to work, my eyes were constantly sore from tiredness all week. BUT Monday evening I went to my regular Sit and… Read More
Remember in January I posted about the projects that I had started but were sitting in various UFO piles?The 10th project I spoke about was the Jennifer Knol Ditty Bag. At the time it was still in lots of pieces. Well, here you see it almost finished. Almost you say? Why show it now? Welllll,… Read More
