Scrub Stitchin'. Part two, show 'n' tell.

 I'm not even going to try to comment on each picture, there are so many!

In the old dial up days my name would be mud!

Suffice to say there were many, many beautiful projects shown. 

Thank you to everyone who shared their work.

Scrub Stitchin'. Part one, where to start?

As you can imagine, I took hundreds of photos. It's hard to know which ones to share!

There were three great long double rows of tables with I think about thirty sewers attending. Goodness it got noisy at times with everyone chattering happily away while they were sewing, pressing and cutting. 

Of course blogger has mixed up all my images so there is no particular order here.

There were many, many starts, lots of progress shots and plenty of finishes too.

Some finishes were faster than others. 

Some projects barely got off the ground. 

There were some very inspirational pieces dotted around the room and more appeared as time went by.

A trip around the world seemed appropriate given how far some of the international ladies had travelled. 

Friday dress up night was great fun.

Sylvia took the prize for her outfit. So much imagination and effort!

All the internationals and Chooky.

The dining tables were decorated with native florals and greenery.

It seemed like there was food every five minutes.

 and through it all I even managed to sew six of the eight rows that make up my Anchor quilt top.

There is more to come....

I played with fabric and made a 'something'.

But first......

A Santa update. this first photo was taken very early in March, before he was put aside in favour of some secret stuff.

And this is where I left him last night

The bottom of his cloak has appeared and as I mentioned last time, a very unexciting snow drift. There are a few different colours in there, all very pale and all are blended to two different colours in each stitch. It feels like there is a lot of it and I'm over it.  Usually by this stage of a project I'm daydreaming about the next project, but that hasn't happened yet. Maybe because I know there is still hours of back stitch to do after I complete the cross stitch.

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Now about the fabric..

I went in to my room with the intention of playing with my scrappy triangles, last seen back in July.  You know where this is going right?

I ended up opening a completely different drawer and pulling out a completely different bundle of fabric.

Although she wasn't a quilter mum used to enjoy coming with me to the big quilt show in Birmingham UK. She also bought fabrics and gave them to me, asking me to make 'something'.  I did make her some 'somethings' with some of those fabrics. A purple bundle was added to and went in to a quilt for GD Charmaine a couple of years ago. Other fabric bundles have sat waiting.... This is one of those bundles.

Mum loved wildlife, like me she would sit and watch David Attenborough all day long, so no surprise that she would chose this bundle. Just a tiny bundle of pre cut squares. Though they were not very well cut. I don't recall which vendor she purchased them from, but I am shocked that they would be sold looking like this.

It seems that yesterday was their day. In no time I had them all trimmed to the same size, with nice neat edges.

Next I cut some strips of coordinating batik.

And Voila! 

A cute wee top.

I'll finish it in to a wall hanger for my boy Joe. He mentioned a while ago that he would like 'something' to keep his pin/badge collection together. 

I think maybe his pins could go in the sashing strips between the animals and he will have something of his Nana's. 

There is another similar bundle that just might get similar treatment.

I too have a collection of pins and badges.

This guy might upset the balance a little, being the only circular motif.

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I see lots of red peeping through the leaves in the green house, time to go and collect chili again!

I might need to make another batch of Evil chilli chutney. LOL

Have a great day.

 

Time out, hot stuff and very exciting news.

For anyone hoping to see a completed Lucy Blue quilt in the near future.

Don't hold your breath.

Things are not going to plan. She is not playing nicely and some strange bubbles and bobbles are appearing. I'm really not sure what is going on, but I do know I'm not happy.

So Lucy is in time out while I think about my options.

Persevere....

or pull her off the frame and reach for the ripper!

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Meanwhile

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Santa is being worked on and has grown a little, I'll get a pic soon but not much to show really as I'm working on a snow drift.

More preserving has been done. The Carolina Reaper Chili are coming along now and are making their way in to the cauldron. I made a special batch of Evil Habanero chutney and gifted a jar to some friends. Angela sent me a message a few days later telling me the men in her life had tried it, they had already taken several samples and seemed to be enjoying it but there were 'expletives'! LOL Apparently it's a hot one. 

Tony didn't try it yet, I wonder what he will make of it. 

I'll be making more of the evil stuff today, with a few reapers in it.

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Three more shifts at work. Six more sleeps then Tony and I will be heading off to get on our plane to Sydney and just a few days after that.....

Scrub Stitchin'

EXCITED!

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And on a very happy final note. Tony finally got a job back in his field of expertise.

He will start work in his new role when we get back from Australia.

He is a very happy man.