Happy Thursday! A batch of Grey's chess tarts are out of the oven. We're both waiting impatiently while they cool down enough to eat!
Happy Thursday! A batch of Grey's chess tarts are out of the oven. We're both waiting impatiently while they cool down enough to eat!
Back to knitting vanilla fingerless mitts using Shibui sock yarn. If there's enough I'll make them full mitts. It had been maturing in stash since at least 2010. Probably because it's buttery soft 100% merino and would wear really quickly.
Traced the fusible webbing for Father Christmas by Connie Tesene and Mary Tendall from Country Threads in the book Fast, Fun and Fabulous Quilts.
I was going to stop at the tracing, but decided housework could wait another hour or so and kept going. All the pieces are ready to cut out.
Wishing you a Happy New Year and hope yoir 2023 is wonderful.
Christmas Woodpecker is an FFO. It's backed with a scrap from one of the to be cut up piles.
All the floss I was gifted is bobbinated and is in the orphan floss box.
Stitching Snow by Glory Bee from the 2004 JCS magazine on 18 count aida.
The Father Christmas project ran into a bit of a problem. I was excited on Thursday to receive an Amazon package of what I thought was a bolt of fusible webbing. I'd ordered fusible interfacing instead. Oops!
This is one of those projects that I just pick up every so often and stitch on it.
It's a bit of fun to have a crafty word of the year. Next year's word is SANTA....because there is not one handmade Santa in the house! There's cross stitch, quilt and doll patterns in the stash....so plenty of inspiration.
This will be my cross stitch BAP (big arse project) for next year. It's close enough to a Santa. Everything is ready to go, apart from zigzagging the fabric.
Grey and I work at different hospitals in The Big Smoke and he drops me off about an hour earlier than my shift starts. For the first few shifts I was twiddling my thumbs, then had an aha! moment. A vanilla sock is the perfect project. It's small, portable and easy to pick up and put down. I've made enough of them to be familiar enough with the pattern to know where I'm at when I pick it up again.
Progress on Pint Size by Kim Diehl from the book Simple Whatnots III. The quilt ruler and rotary cutter combo that I'd been using sinc...