What have I been making all year.

  It is finally here.

My friend and I have been slowly working on 2022 Xmas gifts for our quilt group.

We made sets of luggage tags. The trial cuts.

40 sets all cut out and ready to sew

We are getting there.

And hexies key rings

Time to give out these wonderful gifts.

A job well done..

All packed away in fabric envelopes made by another member.

Here they are all packaged ready to go on the tables.

I have been sewing hexies.

 Moving on with a UFO. I have been working on my Japanese hexies.

I am on the last one. Then I will get out the sashiko blocks and work out what I have to do next.

All my other mystery surprise hexies are done. I can’t show them yet but please be patient.

My past week.

 Well, here is another long awaited catch up post. I don’t seem to be able to keep up lately. I’m not sure if it’s inspiration I need or what. Anyway, here  are a few things.

At my Saturday sit n sew I made a pin cushion/bin tidy to go beside my chair. This was a tutorial night workshop our group had while I was away in March. I finally got to do mine. I am very happy with how it worked out.

On Monday we had our daughter and family over for dinner as it was her birthday later in the week and she was going to be working. So we had a lovely night together.

Of course there was a little cake

Never too old for birthday cake.

Our grandson made dessert. Berry fruity dream sorbet in the Thermo. He is 13, now taller than me and did it all by himself while I watched over his shoulder. He did well. Yes I am loving the Thermo.

I hadn’t been feeling well and had left work early so nothing special was made. The following day I wasn’t feeling the best and stayed home again. Spent some time knitting my teabag strings

Donated tea bags

Collection from work

All the tags are off

The strings are ready to tie together.

Where the knitting was

Where the knitting is now

I had a painful Tuesday night so off to the ER on Wednesday morning. To find out I was being admitted with diverticulitis. Oh so painful.

The wards were full so this was my new home for 2 days. The short stay ward.

When I could finally have a meal that I could keep down without any pain I was allowed home. My meal. We always get told to not have too much salt. Oh boy. That soup and mash was hard to swallow. I think they used the whole salt container. I did mange to eat it without any other trouble though.

I WAS ALLOWED HOME.

I had some beautiful flowers delivered by a friend

So here we are on Saturday and I am joining in with Chooky on zoom. I was supposed to be away at a quilt retreat so I am very happy to join in on zoom. I am sewing away with my little hexie flowers.

Well that’s it for this week. Here I was thinking I hadn’t done much but reading this I know I have done plenty. I’m hoping to go to work for a short day and see how I manage.

Thanks for all your caring support and messages.

Wow it’s nearly December. The start of Summer.

 Where did November go to.

I am now the President of our local quilt group. How did that happen?

A few committee members went to our storage shed to see what was there. There were quite a few bags and boxes of scrap and donated fabrics. 

I brought them home and started sorting.

Well the tubs are now tidied up.

We are having a charity sewing night tomorrow night so I thought we could use some up. We found some sweet flannelette and some cute kids prints. So we have decided to cut them into 6.5” squares and sew them together again making little kids quilts.

My daughter and I had a fun night out at a painting class for a fundraiser. This has been rebooked a few times due to covid. Well it’s here.

Neither of us has painted before. So we booked for a bit of fun. We started on some platters and a glass of wine.

Chose our colours and started. 

There was a group of 10 and we had so much fun.

I received this lovely tea towel in the mail from Maria - WA today. Thanks Maria, yours is in the mail too.

(I can’t show mine yet but I think it’s cute)

Look at the cute teapots

We had our grandsons for an overnight visit. It was fun. We ate a quick dinner 

then played bowling on the Wii. 

Then we had a lovely lunch supplied by our daughter and husband for my hubbies birthday. It was so good to finally catch up with lots of lockdowns due to covid

The only bit of sewing is a gift I have made for a friend. They are easy to put in the post.

Hi everyone. I’m still here

 You will need a drink, coffee or wine, whichever you choose, enjoy the following. 

This is a catch up of what I have been doing. There will be lots of photos from the last couple of weeks all in no particular order. I can’t believe that we have been in lockdown, restricted movements and I still can’t keep up with blogging. My motivation is low but hopefully with some nicer weather this may improve.

I have loads of ideas, plenty of UFO’s, projects planned and no need to shop. I have everything to make them. The fabric & time but no oomph.

It needs to change. ANYWAY, here is something to report.

Here is my finished bell with another one I was gifted. It was easy to make. And didn’t really take long. 

My friend came over to choose fabrics for masks for the kids to go back to school but you couldn’t see my sewing table, sewing room or move anywhere so a clean up was necessary. This is it now..

Now I can start to sew again. Making some masks for a work friend and her children. Kids are back to school but must wear a mask. This family wants fun ones to enjoy. 

This is what they chose.

Here are the finished masks for the kids to go back to school. She liked them so much that I need to make another rainbow stripe for her.

You all remember the panel, Australian animals, I sent to the USA for the swap I was in. Well, here we are on a public holiday, MELBOURNE CUP DAY, I get a knock at the door and it was a delivery. A parcel from the USA. Excitement set in. I was amazed when this parcel arrived. LOOK AT THAT COST. Just ridiculous. I was so shocked and thrilled at the same time. I raced in and opened it straight away.

Look at the beautiful panel I received from Mona. Thank you. It is perfect and I am a purple fan.

I will make this into a quillow and use it when I am watching tv. If I line the pocket part with polar fleece I can use this as a pocket to keep my feet warm. It is the perfect size.

I also took part in their FALL/AUTUMN mug rug swap. I don’t like doing just square items so I change them a little bit. I saw this design on the end of a table runner and thought it was perfect. I’m so happy with how it worked out. 

This is the beautiful mug rug I received.

 Looks like we were thinking along the same lines. How fun is this.

This is the fat 1/4 I won from QATW for a visit and comment I made on one of their posts. Lucky me. This will definitely get used.

We have been meeting up in the park for our sewing group. It is hard to sew in a camp chair without a little help. I bought this bed tray years ago from an op shop for about $5. It is finally getting some use.

What makes it even more special is I have been using my new zippered placemat with it and it fits perfectly. Now everyone wants to make one.

Even the ducks came for a visit.

Our group has a birthday fat 1/4 gift swap. This is how I packaged mine this month.

Now the year is over I have to find another way to wrap a fat 1/4 that is using something I have at home. I find it hard just to put it in an envelope. Maybe, I could make boxes using my birthday cards they have given me. Oh, that’s a great idea. Problem solved. This just came to me as I was typing so I might just give it a go and post a picture later if the fabric fits in the small box. 

I had a lovely friend come over for the morning. 

Before we got into the planned activity I was notified of a local garage sale. So off we headed. There wasn’t any quilting fabric like we expected but we both managed to purchase something.

My friend bought some pieces of vinyl which she uses in her pin cushions and I bought these. Some ribbons/braids, felt, bias making bars. I already have the Templar plastic ones but another set wouldn’t hurt. Also got some more zips. These are always handy for when I make bags of all sizes or the new style zippered placemats. All this for only $5.00. 

A real bargain.

Back home now for the purpose of the visit.

My friend brought her die for me to cut out heaps of hexies. 

A start on a new project. 

Why do I keep starting them… 

She was amazing and I appreciate her time and help. Now to sew them

Papers and fabrics are all cut for my future project.

I am organised and have some hand stitching to take to my sewing meeting nights or even zoom, Chooky, for quite a while.

So this is where I’m at. Hexie sewing. Who would have believed it. Gotta start somewhere.

I can say that I will not be making a quilt with these and will never in the future. 

This is not me!

Good on you all for your EPP sewing. It is amazing and I appreciate your work.  

Enjoy it and happy sewing.