A BIG finish and a broken resolution.

I blame Chooky.

I didn't say it out loud, but I had quietly committed to myself that I would spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day in my sewing room in an effort to take the focus away from my cross stitch and keep some other things moving along. I have mentioned previously that I found time on Christmas day to add some sashing strips to the second batch of churndash blocks and on 1st of January I got the fist row put together. Yay! Go me. I also made a start on some quilting. More on that in a few moments. 

Then later that day I spent some time zooming with Chooky, so put away my cross stitch and pulled out Lucy until it was time to go to work, adding the pieces that took me around the final corner on the edge. The end was very close indeed. 

I slept in on the 2nd and awoke to find another zoom invitation. 

Still in my jammies and with my hair un brushed,  it was in that session that I finished Lucy.

Here she is, a night time picture with the Christmas tree twinkling away.

Now to figure out how to quilt her.

Of course there was still some zoom session left......I felt a little lost without Lucy.

What to do.......?

I pulled out a UFO that has been waiting for me since February 2021. So not terribly old by some standards, but old enough to bug me.

This is a BOM by Gail Pan called Bring me flowers.

Of course I'm stitching it in blue.

Januarys pieces were all done and this one had been started, so I finished it before it was time to head off to work.

So of course all of that meant that I did not spend 15 mins or more working on the churndash top.

Hmmm.

I made up for it on the 3rd, getting another row sewn on.

I was there for way over 15 mins trying to get rid of that wave, right in the middle.

I pinned and sewed and unpicked so many times the fabric is getting tired so I decided in the end to leave it and hope to quilt it out.

Today should see the final row put on and maybe tomorrow I'll get some borders added too.

I mentioned quilting at the start of this blog post and here it is.

I had also quietly committed to getting some of my many finished tops quilted and like the churndash that commitment was put aside in favour of zooming. LOL

But progress has been made.

I took this photo when I had stopped on the 1st, before sitting down to cross stitch.

It has since progressed even further. Hopefully today it will be finished and I can get some binding on to it.

Then I might put Lucy on to the frame.

I had planned to do some straight line quilting on her, but now .........???

Watch this space.

Cross stitch?

Snowy St Nick has progressed too, I'll get an updated image soon.

Today was Lucys big day.