Two new starts and Zooming along.

Chookyblue had another of her world famous Zoom parties yesterday. They really are fun and a great way to sew along in good company and to meet new friends. I joined in late as I had stuff to do. As usual there were different folks in and out all day.

Here are just a few of us.

I got on with various things throughout the morning. I pulled out this lovely pattern 

and yellow fabrics and made a start on the cutting,  then I cut butterfly bodies for my RSC blocks. I also got on with some secret stuff.

Then it was lunchtime and time for Tony to try and sleep as his two night shifts this week fall on Saturday and Sunday.

So I shifted camp into the sitting room as my sewing room is right next door to our bedroom, and apparently a zoom stitch along is very noisy!! I sat listening to everyone chatting and even managed to join in while I was busy with Jack the ripper! Un quilting the last couple of rows I had done on the Purple turning twenty quilt. If you remember I was having tension issues. I pulled it off the frame a while ago but just never got around to the unhappy un quilting part. 

I had just finished doing that when Tony surfaced from his snooze.

So I folded it up and dumped it on the arm of the couch, grabbed the zooming laptop and headed back to my sewing room. 

I made the petals and the centre for the sunflower and started to put them together.

I have a choice of greens for the back ground but by now it was getting dark and I didn't want to make colour decisions with the room light on. So I put my lovely sunflower to one side and started to applique bodies onto butterflies, using the blanket stitch setting on my machine.

That was going all fine and dandy until the thread ran out!

Made even more frustrating by the fact that I had only two and half bodies to go.

I see a trip to the store in my near future.

It was at that point I decided to call it a night and said good bye to the girls and headed back to the sitting room to have a glass of wine and read my book for a while, where I discovered that someone had made herself comfortable on my half quilted quilt.

A few pages of book later and she was really settled.

Menace!

So there you have it, a rather itty bitty day, but I did make some progress.

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In other news, I've been working away at some secret stuff, not Christmas ornaments this time, but other Christmas stuff, which includes buttons. LOL

And speaking of Christmas.

I made a start on St Nick. The fabric is a piece I ordered especially for him from a local dyer it's called Snow Drifts. I wanted something that looked cold and wintery. I think I got it.

If I'm reading the chart correctly, this dark green blob is part of a holly garland. Hopefully I'll get to sit and stitch some more of him today. 

I've been busy in the kitchen all morning making lunch boxes for the freezer. Tony loves mince and potatoes, so a big batch of that was portioned out ready to freeze, I also made up a chicken curry and rice which was also divided into lunch box portions. They are handy to have as a back up for those days when there are no leftovers to take. That should keep us going for a couple of weeks. All we have to do is grab a box from the freezer and head out of the door to work.

 And of course a new slice.

Parkin.

I remember my Mum and my Gran both making this. Sadly this is not either of their recipes but one I came across in the Best Baking collection which  I showed back here.

I have to say, this recipe is not as good as my Mums.

I'm also very happy to report that I have Mums recipe in my old school recipe book.

Do yo still have your school recipe book?

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That's it, that's me all caught up. Time for some lunch and then some stitching.