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 :)

I'm on a roll.....

I decided to make another table runner with the scraps I had left over from my previous blue runner.The only thing I changed was appliqueing flowers on each end and a diferent backing fabric and I still have enough left overs to make a couple of cushions to go with it.I'm loving how they both turned out.

This is going to be another Chrissy gift so two down with many more to go :)

A sewing kit for the flood releif....

These pictures are of the beautiful sewing kit my sister Anne made for the flood relief that Jenny of http://www.elefantz.com/ is organising.

If you'd like to join in and make one or two for this great cause pop over to Jenny's blog to get all the info about where to acess the free patterns to use and where to send your finished kits to.

Anne used a pattern from my stash to create the one in the picture above ( by Leanne Beasley) but like me she winged it to make the bag to put it in,isn't she clever :)

2 more finishes for 2011....

I've been watching all the mug rugs appearing around blogland and decided to try my hand at making one or two of them.I'm quite pleased with how they turned out .I wasn't too sure of the actual sizing of the rugs so I just winged it.

A couple of WIP....

These are a couple of things I've been working on.The red and white runner is a BOM I did and then couldn't figure out what to make it up into.Over my holiday break I decided to border it with red sashing and make it into a runner.I just need some backing/binding material and I can finish it of.I love how it's turned out and I think Vicki will be too :)

The wall hanging I've been working on one block a month and have been putting it together as each row has been finished so now another one to find border,backing and binding material for and I can finish this one off to.Mmmmm I suppose I'll have to go shopping for this material,what a hardship lol :)