FNSI Results

I'm afraid I didn't get to complete the baby quilt top this weekend, in fact I'm amazed I got as much sewing done as I did with all the busyness of this weekend.

This is the first quilt I've made where I had to piece the blocks first, I've only made a couple of quilts before and used charm squares or strips of fabric. It took me a few attempts to get all the seams to match up, but I got there in the end.

Then my youngest daughter popped her head around my craft room door and sweetly asked if I could fix a ripped seam in her favourite dress as she needed to pack it for a trip in about 30 minutes.

I managed to fix it but the seam was ripped and frayed and I had to sew a slightly larger seam in one place which caused some puckering.  Clever me decided to try and iron out the puckers and forgot I left the iron on a hot setting and promptly melted a lovely hole in her much loved dress.

We decided to try something radical and sewed a little butterfly hexagon patch over the hole, it's given the dress a decidedly vintage vibe which she loves, and at just 22 she can carry off the look well.

I eventually got back to the sewing machine and left the quilt with the middle panel finished and one of the pieced borders in place.

Thanks to Wendy at Sugarlane Designs for hosting.

July FNSI 2016

I decided to join in with the FNSI (Friday Night Sew In) this month as I have a little quilting project on the go for my newest baby grandaughter who's just six weeks old.

I have already made the blocks and cut out the pieces for the outer border, hopefully I can get some of the quilt sewn together over the next couple of days.

Box of socks

Every Christmas I knit hubby some socks to put under the Christmas Tree, although I must admit that they don't always make it under the tree in time for Christmas morning.  This year I decided to start my gift knitting a little earlier in the hope of finishing all knitted and sewn gifts before December.

I found a set of three little suitcases in 'The Works' and decided to use the largest one to keep hubby's half completed socks in.

I'm knitting him three pairs, and as you can see I'm doing the first sock of all three pairs before moving on to the second ones, I'm hoping this will put paid to second sock syndrome.

I'm also knitting the heels and toes in contrasting yarns, this way I keep the stripe pattern consistent. The yarns for both of these socks is King Cole Zig Zag, I'm thrilled that my local yarn shop has now started stocking a good variety of sock yarns and have also just signed up to stock a good range of King Cole.

I also have a pair of socks on the needles for me, the yarn is Bergere de France Goomy 50 in the Imprim Beige colourway. 

So, an awful lot of sock knitting going on around here at the moment.