Are you ready to have some fun!!

Thank you for joining Our Craft Forum's Blog Hop.So what's a "Craft Forum?" A Craft Forum is a place for like minded people who love crafts like patchworking,quilting,stitching etc... It's a safe place to make new friends who share your interest,want to have fun,ask questions and also a place to join in swaps of all types of crafts.This weekend is designed to tell our blogging friends all about our wndeerful Forum and invite you to be part of the fun.

Several of our members will be offering tutorials,giveaways and some tips of the trade.

The Blog Hop starts at http://missnance.blogspot.com/ so if you want to join in on the whole journey please go to http://missnance.blogspot.com/ and follow the links at the end of each post to find the next blog along the way.

Each person who joins Our Craft Forum from this Blog Hop will go in the draw for a craft pack.So to join got to http://ourcraftforum.freeforums.org/ and register.Entries start midday today and close midnight (EDST) Sunday 27th February.

In order to enter for the prize for my giveaway please just leave a comment on this post after midday today.The winner will win this gorgeous book called "A is for Apron".This giveaway is open to all.

Now to keep following the Blog Hop please head over to Terri's blog and say hi and see what she's up to.Just click on the link below.

http://vrbh.blogspot.com/

Keep hopping along the way,you'll have lots of fun and perhaps even win a nice giveaway :) Barb.

P.S: Just a reminder that I will not be including any comments to the draw if they have been posted before midday today.....

More OPAM finishes for February.....

I've been working on more dishcloths for my kitchen trying to use up all my bits of cotton I made some multi-coloured oned with the leftovers and these will be designated as bathroom cleaners,I also finished off the 2nd candle mat I started in December last year.

The cupcake pot holder I couldn't show till now as I made it for a special friend in my fat 1/4 birthday swap list and had to wait till she told me she'd received it before I could post any pictures of it.So that's a total of 5 more finished for OPAM for this month......I wonder if I have enough time to finish of a couple of more things before February ends???

Now don't forget about our Craft Forum Blog Hop happening next Friday.....it starts at Midday Aussie time and finishes Midnight Sunday....you've got to be in it to win it right?

Blog Hop....

Just letting you know that I'll be participating in a Blog Hop with some fantastic ladies from our craft forum.It starts on Friday 25th February and there will be giveaways involved so come back next Friday and we'll get the party started :)

Stitch-a-long fun....

I've joined in the "Tis the season" stich-a-long,I've traced out all my blocks and can't wait for March to get started on them.They should be easy to keep up with as they're very tiny blocks to stitch,if you'd like to see the progress of the other stitchers taking part click on this link http://stitch-a-long.blogspot.com/ and it will take you there...all the other participants are up on their blog roll on the right....go check them out :)

More Finishes....

While sorting through all my UFO's I discovered all these tuffet tops in a bag and decided that they would be one of the many projects I would finish this year.Now they are sitting in my gift giving basket ready to be used at a moments notice for family and friends this year for birthdays or Christmas gifts.

It feels so good to get things finished!!

More finishes for OPAM

I started these three cushions out as bags last year but kept mucking up puting them together due to tiredness and sooooo they turned into three cushions instead,I got fustrated seeing them sitting in my UFO pile but no more :) So three more for my February OPAM list.

I also finished stitching my second block of the birdie stitcheries.....so cute!

Febuary Finish for OPAM....

I've had the top of this runner together and sitting in my UFO pile for (I'm too embarressed to admit) how many years but now it's finished and of my UFO pile and into my OPAM finish pile.

Boy does it feel good to get things done and be able to use them :)

Final January Finishes for OPAM....

Last night I finished my final Christmas table runner that I'd started making a couple of years ago Wooo Hooo so glad to have this one finally done,it's now packed away with my Chrissy stuff where I'll finally be able to use it this year!!!

I've also been working on some knitted dish cloths over the last week and a half in-between all the sewing I've been working on.I started making crocheted dishcloths last year but found them to hard to wring out with my weak wrists/hands so decided to try knitting them and I must say I love how they've turned out,super soft and so easy to use.I just bought more balls to make up lots more so expect some more pictures of my lovely dish cloths in the coming weeks :)

Three more finished......Finally!!

I finally put the back on my christmas table runner I started nearly three years ago,ooops should have ironed it first.I made five variations of this runner,three were for Christmas gifts to family and friends and you guessed it the other two were for me.I finished the other three on time as gifts but mine as usual got put on the back burner till now.I still have one more runner to finish with prairie points and then I can say I'll be ready for Christmas reeaallllyyy early this year LOL.

The two tea towels will be going itno my Christmas box as little gifties for unexpected pressies being needed quickly when I run out of time but still want to give a hand-made gift.I'm sooo loving finishing off things and crossing them of my to-do list

If you look top left of my blog you'll see a new button for the 2011 OPAM challange which I've joined.I'm hoping this will keep me motivated to at least finish one thing a month which will be harder for me starting Febuay as I'll be commencing part-time study as well as working....we'll see how it all pans out at the end of the year :)

It's only taken me two years to put together.....

I started working on these four blocks a couple of years ago using some of my scraps from my stash.It's taken me all this time to find them again in my humungus UFO pile and then ages again to decide what I wanted to make them into!?? I finally decided to join them together to make a wall hanging,although they nearly turned into four cushions for my couch lol.The colours all go so well together,I love how it's turned out :)