Friends Having Fun Swaps…..seeing spots!

For this swap we were to use spots either spotty fabric or a pattern with spots or dots I chose to go with the spotty fabric and my partner for this swap was Claire and since she’s emailed me saying my parcel has arrived safely at her house and she loves what I made for her i thought I’d pop a couple of photo’s of what I made her on here.

First up was this table topper I made as the main gift although Claire tells me it’s never going to see a table as it’s way too good to get food spilt on it and she si in the process of making it into a wall hanging for her sewing room…..hey I’m just happy and relieved she loves it LOL….

I also sent Claire a few goodies to go with her main gift these included.……

A spotty Rosalie Quinlan pre-printed stitchery, a spotty notebook, a mini charm pack of Miss Kate as I know how much she loves her Bonnie and Camille fabrics and of course I had to add some blue and white M & M’s too with the theme as well as a box of smarties both without nuts or fruit just the way Claire likes her choccies.

Thanks for being my partner in this swap Claire and hopefully I’ll get to see how my table topper turned wall hanging looks hanging on your wall real soon. I also want to thank Peg and Shez for organizing these swaps as I’m having heaps of fun trying to work out what to make and add to each parcel……well I better hop to it and get started on the next swap which is a Christmas themed one and as many of you know I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! so it’s no hardship finding projects it’s just going to be really hard to stop at the required number LOL….

Charming Stars sew-a-long update…..

October blocks done and dusted to bring my total to three finishes I’m loving how these blocks are coming together so quickly and it wont be long before I can start putting my rows together.

I wonder who these are heading to ???? & a giveaway win!

These parcels are part of our Friends Having Fun Swap, I wonder where they will end up????

I was also lucky enough to win this gorgeous sewing machine button from Yvonne in her giveaway….it’s huge!!  Do yourself a favour and visit Yvonne’s blog as she creates the most amazing buttons and brooches, thank you Yvonne!Now to think of a special project I can use it in

Friday Night With Friends results….

Friday night saw me sewing these itty bitty HST’s together to make a flimsy…..

Today I’ll start quilting it by hand and just enjoy the slowness of doing it this way.

If you’d like to see what everyone else got up to last night pop over to Cheryll's and say hi I’d also like to thank Cheryll for hosting this monthly event it certainly gets me motivated to get a few thing out of the UFO pile and into the finished pile.

A finish and a start…..

finally finished my cherry ripe baby blanket, very pleased with how this one turned out it’s now in my gift giving basket for babies.

I also started assembling the HST’s in preparation for sewing together, hoping to get started on this one sometime this weekend These are the leftovers from my charming stars blocks I’ve been working on.

Who’s a lucky girl????

Me that’s who!

The very talented Fiona was my swap partner this time and I have been totally spoilt. Fiona made me a beautiful roomy spotty bag which I’ll be using to store my rainbow ripple I’m planning to make for myself, a very cute needle book and pouch both with my name and the year stitched onto them as well as an appliqued mouse bag to put my  ball of wool into while I crochet and see that little hole where her tail should be that’s where the wool will pull through and stop it from tangling up on me. I also have to admit that the jelly babies are nearly gone ooops

Thank you Fiona, I have been thoroughly spoilt by you in this swap and I love everything you’ve  sent  me 

Christmas Through the Year…..

I’m linking up with Anthea for Christmas Through The Year, I finally finished the quilting on this table runner last night and it’s now  residing in my gift basket

FNSI Results….

I decided to work on a new crochet project last night, this is the willow block and when finished will be a blanket for my nieces 21st birthday next year.

I added a few more centres to the pile, now to crochet the final two rounds and add them to my growing pile. Friday night also saw me finishing of this secret project……

Sorry this is all I can show you at the moment, these leftovers have now gone into my scrap basket and will become dots for a multi-coloured blanket using all my little scraps from other projects…….but not to leave you without a finish I’ll also show you a photo of my rainbow ripple blanket which is now in my gift giving basket…….

Don’t forget to pop over to Wendy's and check out what all the other participants were working on Friday night

Charming Stars sew-a-long….

September’s block is now done and dusted for our Charming stars sew-a-long, I’m using the range “Midwinter reds” I only had enough of the cream fabric to make up 14 blocks with no sashing so 12 will be used for a wall hanging and the spare two will be made into a runner. I’ve already cut out and sewn up the points for each of my blocks but will select from these and make up one or two blocks a month till done.

I also copied Fiona's idea and made up HST blocks with the leftover corner triangles that would have otherwise been discarded and have plans of making a mini wall hanging as well as a cushion with these scraps…….Thanks Fiona it was soooo easy to make up these HST blocks

Now I just need to wait for some more Midwinter Red fabric to arrive so I can finish my next lot of blocks……I just needed a few more creams and tans to even out what I already had in my stash. When this quilt is done I plan on making a larger version with my birthday red & white fat 1/4’s for our bed and I’ll also be using Fiona's trick again to make more HST for a few extra accessories to go with it.

It feels good to be back at the machine, it’s been ages since I’ve done any machine sewing Hopefully I’ll be doing lots more over the next few weeks.

Friday Night With Friends Results….

Friday night saw me working on a couple of my crochet projects….

I went from two piles of pretty cherry ripe dots to…..

Four piles, ten dots per pile so that makes forty done and another forty one to work on and then I can start putting this baby blanket together. I also found myself working on adding a few more rows to this project I started in early August……..

After sorting through my wool baskets I found I had quite a few odd balls as well as odd 100gm balls leftover from other projects so now they’re all contained in one basket and from this basket I started making this rainbow ripple ( above ) and I’m planning to use the leftovers from this blankets to make a rainbow dot blanket next. Below is an updated picture of the six nearly seven rows completed last night, I love how soothing a ripple is to work on……Today saw me finally knuckling down and sewing in those pesky ends before they became too numerous

Once these blankets are finished they will be going into my gift basket which is rapidly filling up with baby blankets  lol….. I’ll be doing a bit of blog hopping tomorrow to see what everyone else was working on and if you’d like to do this as well why not pop over to our lovely leader Cheryl's blog to peruse all the lovely blogs of the other participants at your leisure over the weekend