a week of this and that..

I have really enjoyed my reward week of working on whatever I wanted to.
Some new carpet laid mid week took a big chunk out of my crafty time as we had to remove everything then put it all back again. Thank goodness we only did the one room! That was stressful enough.

the little girls of the world are altogether and I just need to decide on whether it needs a border or not? I do like it without the border but it just needs to be a little bigger.....
The Dr Seuss quilt was delivered to the quilters so I just have to wait for that one to come back for binding and that will be another ufo done. Gotta love that!

 I got my bunny stitchery finished and even got excited enough to get the borders done. You may notice that I have reversed mr rabbit as I just prefer him walking this way. Odd I know but that's just me. I dipped into my civil war fabrics for the piecing and chose a lovely purple. The colour doesn't show true but I thought purple would be a great Easter colour.
I just love these stitcheries and am almost finished may's one. The border may not get done quite as quickly but you never know. Then to quilt them!

(note to self-remove stray threads before photographing)

Back to normal next week, I will miss all this crafting time but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Happy stitching!
Marina

one down!

Well I can mark one off the list of to do's.

I have managed to piece together my Girls day out top. Wooohoo!

I am really happy with it. There are a few little things that need to be finished off, I missed a little bit of embroidery and I need to applique some roses around the centre shop, which I was debating about but I figure I have done this much work over the last 12 months a little more won't hurt.

I used Lecien fabric for the borders and am worried as they are fraying quite easily. I will need to be careful with handling and when I quilt it.

With the school holidays a success will usually encourage me to bring out the too hard basket and this horsey project has surfaced again. Last holidays I unpicked and resewed the blocks so that the embroidered blocks and the panel blocks were supposed to end up the same size but surprise- they didn't and I am lost with the busy-ness of it. Will leave them out for a few days and see if any inspiration hits. As always any suggestions more than welcome!

Off to finish my paper bag swap items! Deadline looming.

cheers

Marina

a very productive weekend

Gnocchi turned out great and have had a weekend full of good food and good friends and family.
Craft wise all planets aligned and I had a great sewing weekend.
Here are some of my Girls day out blocks, I have sewn up three quarters of the top. I just need to cut some more fill in squares. The buttons will get put on once it is quilted.

Here is my disappearing nine patch top- yep finished this on the weekend too.

Now is this the cutest tin ever. My sister in law gave it to me for my birthday along with a gorgeous blue willow platter. I just love it.

This will be a short week, work wise, hooray. It will be the weekend before you know it.

Have a lovely week.

Marina