Friday Night With Friends

  

No sewing for me last night. I decided to keep working 

on the rug I started Monday on our short road trip to 

Adelaide to pick up our new caravan. 

Rex missed me while I was away and cuddled up close 

while we watched the Carlton vs Collingwood match.

I'll be adding a round of white to the blocks 

to make it a Carlton rug (wink wink!).

Thank you to Cheryll for hosting us last night.

You can see what the others got up to here.

 

If you haven't had any replies to your comments 

from me, I'm not ignoring you. 

Apparently Optus is having problems with 

Hotmail and Outlook emails being blocked 

but they are working on it. 

But I've worked out I can email you through my 

Gmail account, so that's what I'll be doing until it's fixed.

Friday Night With Friends and Zooming

It's been a long time since I've joined in FNWF. 

In fact, when I had a look it was back in April 2023!

Last night I worked on a secret project so not much to show you!

Thank you to Chez for hosting us. 

Hopefully I'll be joining in more regularly this year. 

That's the plan anyway!

Today I've spent a lovely few hours zooming with

 Chooky and the Chookshed Stitchers. 

It's always so nice stitching along with these girls.

Friday Night With Friends

I only managed a little stitching last night as my eyes 

were a little tired and itchy due to hay fever. 

They're feeling much better this morning so I'm off to my sewing 

room to attempt to put the zip in my dress!

Thanks to Chez for hosting us. 

You can see what others got up to here.

 

Friday Night With Friends

 

Last night decided to start a new project just because I can!

My Christmas Jewel decoration. 

It was one of the projects I got in the Tilda Christmas 

Mystery Box from Dawn at Kitty Rose Cottage.

The fabric on my left is my favourite!

Doing the prep work.

Prep all done.

Time to start sewing it together.

I got the first two sides stitched together last night. 

With a bit of luck I'll finish it today.

Thanks to Chez from Gone Stitchin' for hosting us last night.

You can see what others got up to here.

 

Friday Night With Friends

 On Fridays I always do my housework. 

So what better than to work on this little "cleaning" block!

Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night.

Friday Night With Friends

 

Last night I worked on the final stitchery for our 

Tilda Lovers Club Windy Days stitchalong. 

I'll finish this off tonight ready for when 

Fee reveals the next project tomorrow.

 

Thanks to Chez for keeping us inspired.

Tomorrow I'll have the first two projects of the stitchalong 

to show you. Just have to finish the last little bit of project #2. 

I'm re-doing the binding on our first project as I wasn't happy 

with it. I'll tell you all about it in my next post.

Friday Night With Friends

I am joining the Tilda Lovers Club Windy Days stitchalong. 

Last night I started the first stitchery in preparation for starting.

The stitchalong is to coincide with the release 

of the new Tilda fabric range "Windy Days". 

The range was released yesterday and my order is on the way.

 

The boys and their girls gave me an accessory pack for my birthday. 

You can get these from Fiona from Fee Fee and Me.

   

There were lots of goodies in the box. All sorts of bits 

and pieces we'll need. This makes life so much 

easier than trying to source everything myself.

There are also fabrics and pre-printed stitcheries. 

It's great being able to do the stitcheries prior to the stitchalong so 

I can take my time and not rush them when the stitchalong starts.

Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night.

You can see what others got up to here.

Friday Night With Friends

  

I headed into my sewing room early and got to 

work on Nelson's new quilt. The top is finished but I need to add 

a panel to the backing as it isn't quite wide enough.

After I put the panel together, I found it needed extra 10 inches 

or so in length for the quilter. I've been using all the leftovers 

and have planned how I am going to add the extra length. 

But it was starting to do my head in so I stopped before 

I messed it up and will finish it today. Then I'll have to wait 

until we're out of lock down to take it to my quilter.

 

After dinner I sat down to work on some more of my

Heartstrings stitcheries. Finished off this cute one.

And made a start on this one.

I also realised I hadn't stitched the little flower on 

the caravan's flag so did that. 

The pineapple block was done earlier in the week.

Thanks to Chez for hosting us last night. 

You can see what others got up to here.

Friday Night With Friends

 

I managed to get a little bit of stitching in early 

before we headed out to dinner and the theatre.

 

Thank you to our lovely hostess, Chez. 

You can see what others got up to here.

 

Friday Night With Friends

 

Last night I pulled out my Tilda Christmas stitchery 

while I watched a movie. Looking at this photo, 

I must remember to stitch that little bird's eye!

Just one snowman to go.

 

Thanks to Chez for hosting us. 

You can see what others got up to here.

 

Friday Night With Friends

 

On Friday I worked a bit more on my Tilda Christmas stitchery. 

I'm a bit late with my report as Friday night my phone 

started to die and couldn't take any photos. 

Saturday finished it off! 

So now I've got a new whiz-bang phone!

Thanks to Chez for hosting us for FNWF.

Friday Night With Friends

 

I had a lovely night working on this little stitchery. 

It is for a swap I am doing with the Tilda Lovers Club. 

I'm hoping to get it put together this weekend.

 

Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night.

Friday Night With Friends

 

I finished the final block of my Lillian Elizabeth's Kitchen quilt. 

This is an extra block to those of Jenny's Phyllis May's Kitchen pattern. 

I decided I would add a photo of Nanny (that's what I called her).

You may remember seeing this. It is the rough layout for my quilt. 

I'm pretty happy with this layout. Now I have to get my brain

 working to work out the final block sizes and and then calculate 

the strips of blue fabric to cut. Yesterday Mum gave me a doily 

that was Nanny's and I plan to cut the circles/flowers of the doily 

and add it to the quilt, along with some lace.

 

Thank you to Cheryll for host us last night. 

You can see what others got up to here.

Friday Night With Friends

With not being able to really go out and shop, 

I've decided to make the nieces and nephews Christmas presents this year. 

Last night I cut out lettering ready to be ironed down. 

Also finished stitching baby Ameliana's Santa sack label. 

Gave up with baby Darcie's as I kept missing single

 threads and continually unpicked.

Thank you to Chez for hosting us last night. 

You can see what other's got up to here.

Friday Night With Friends

I got an early start to FNWF as I had finished all my chores 

thanks to Austin, who had an RDO,  insisting on doing

 the vacuuming for me. What a wonderful son!

I started off with some prep work for a swap 

I am doing with the Tilda Lover's Club on Facebook.

Then I settled down on the couch last night and did a 

little stitching while watching a movie. 

As it's a surprise, I can only give you a little peep!

Thank you to the lovely Chez for hosting us.

Well, I'm off to my sewing room to work on the project.

I'll give you a tour of my new room tomorrow.

Softies and FNWF

Last night I finished my two soft toys for two special little girls 

for their birthdays. The doll is for now 4 year old Thea

 and the cat Billie's for her first birthday.

Hope it's not too long before I can see them to give their gifts.

I gave Thea's doll red hair like Auntie Christine's! LOL!

 

It was a bit of a learning curb making these but 

I'll know what to do next time to make it easier. 

Even with the hiccups, I enjoyed making them.

Thanks to the lovely Chez for hosting us.