WIP Wednesday and 2012 Goals

It had come to that time of the year again where it is nearly over - where did it go.

I am getting in early and changing my rotation and will trial it in December to see whether it is achievable.  I have decided to do a project a week for 4 weeks and then I will start at the beginning of the rotation again.  I am also going to have a Monthly Focus project.  I also want to add in there a BOM and Designer for the year.

The Designer that I want to stitch this year is LHN/CCN and see how many I can stitch in a year.

So December is going to look like this.
Week 1
Rochelle QS HAED
Week 2
Rites of Spring - Blackbird Designs
Week 3
Sentimental Xmas Trio - Handmade Vol 29 No 8
Week 4
Snow in Love -LHN

MONTHLY FOCUS is
Snowman Kisses - CherryWood Designs (a new start)
BOM
Some Kind of Wonderful - Annie Downes
LHN
Elizabeth McGuire - Dear Diary Series

Yikes when I write that all down it looks a lot.  We will see how I go.  I think I need to grow another pair of hands.

Last Month I Focused on Please My Angel Wings Take Me Away © HAED, I am doing this as a SAL with my friend Kim and here is what I have done so far.

PMAWTMA - page 2 completed

I have been stitching on Terra © HAED as a SAL with the BB.  I love this piece and how it looks - the greens are so pretty and she is a joy to stitch.

Terra 3 pages

Till next time. 

Annette B

Week's stitching

These are what I have been working on this last week.

 I managed to finish Block 2 of Some Kind of Wonderful

Singing in the Rain - Block 2 - Some Kind of Wonderful

 I also finished off the the pillow for the Dear Diary Series that I am stitching - this one is Kindness.  I am doing them all on one piece of fabric.  I also started the Sampler..

Kindness - LHN

Elizabeth McGuire Sampler - LHN

 I have  been working on Sentimental Xmas Trio Stitchery by Jenny of Elefantz.  These are 3 stitcheries that were published in Handmade Vol 29 No 8.  I finished Peace and will stitch the other 2 before mounting them.  They are beautiful and easy to stitch.

Peace Stitchery - HandmadeVol 29 No 8

 I have just been to the Drs and all their computers are down, so I have no results yet from the tests done.  I have to ring them this afternoon.  I have developed a throbbing headache, so will go and down a few painkillers.

May you all have a wonderful week.

Annette B

I won

A little while back I entered a competition in Homespun to win some Lynette Anderson fabric.  You had to write in 25 words or less about animals and what they mean to us.   When the date they were picking a winner passed and I didn't hear anything I promptly forgot all about it.  It was a few months later when I got a notification from the PO that there was a parcel to pick up,  I couldn't figure out what it might be as I hadn't ordered anything.

Even when I saw the name Universal as the sender it still didn't twig until I got home and started to open the parcel and saw the Congratulations letter.    So here is a picture of the beautiful fabric and I am not quite sure what I am going to make with yet. 
Annette B

Flora

Flora for Circles of Life BOM

Isn't this the most beautiful fabric.  These are the fat eights that I am using for Circles of Life BOM that is in the Elefantz Magazine.  As soon as I saw these at the Fat Quarter Shop, I knew that they were the ones I wanted to use  for this Quilt..  I had to wait for them to become available but I can assure you that the wait was worth it. Also the ladies at the Fat Quarter Shop were wonderful to deal with.  I could spend hours drooling over the fabrics on this site.

The green feathers and yellow red flowers fabric under the fat eights are for the borders around the blocks.  Now to find time to start this Quilt.  Ohhh to have more hours in the day.

The weather today is just stunning, so I am enjoying it while I can as big storms are predicted over the next few days. Have a fantastic day everyone.

Annette B

International Hermit Week-end

I was a real hermit this week-end and I loved it.  It was just what the Dr. ordered - stay home and stitch. The only time I went out was to buy some strips to test my sugar levels. I hope everyone else had a productive week-end.

I worked on a few different pieces.  I finished the Patty Cake block for Somekind of Wonderful SAL and started the Singing in the rain Block

 The next piece I worked on was a square in the Dear Diary series by Little House of Needleworks. I am making a large pillow out of the little extra designs in this series.  I finished Julia Flynn a little while ago and am now working on Elizabeth McGuire.

Lastly was Rites of Spring  by Blackbird Designs- I just love stitching on this piece. I am about 2/3rds of the way through.

Annette B

This and That

Finally I have gotten around to taking some photos.  I have been having a really yucky time with my health.  A simple cold on the chest again and my sugar levels are off the planet.  They have come back, but I am eating basically nothing to keep them at a reasonable level but even then they are not within the normal range.

I have also joined in with the International Hermit and Stitch Week-end.  I have managed to do quite a bit of stitching which I will share with you tomorrow.

So here is what I have been working on - Odd Couple was my Focus piece last month and I was really pleased with how much I managed to get done.  This is for my DS & DIL.

Odd Couple

 I finished Love Never Fails a while back and realised that I didn't post a picture of it finished.  I just need to find a wall hanger for it now.

Love Never Fails © Val Laird

May God Bless you and keep you safe in the coming week. Annette B

Stitching Mojo Back

The stitching mojo is back but at the moment it is finding time to stitch.

My beautiful daughter is back from overseas and planning a wedding in just under a years time.  At the moment she is only working casual and is hoping to pick up a teaching contract for next year.  So when she get the chance she is down here and we are having a wonderful time making plans. 

When she is working full time we will not have as much time together so I am just treasuring the moments together - the stitching can happen later.

I have finished a few things.

Joy of Christmas - Gail Pan - A Christmas Club design

The Joy of Christmas - I am so pleased with how this turned even though I didn't use Christmas fabric.

Rites of Spring - Blackbird Designs

 The colours are so beautiful and so antique looking. The threads are a mixture of Weeks Dyed and Sampler.

Love... Block 1

One down and only 9 to go.  I loved stitching this block and can't wait to start on No. 2.

I have also been working on Od Couple as my monthly focus piece.   I have pulled all the fabric for a SAL 
of Some King of Wonderful by Annie Downes.  I have everything I need to start now.  I also ordered some fabice from the Fat Quarter Shop to do The Circle of Friends by Jenny Elefantz, I have been waiting it seems forever for all the fabric to come in.

I did finish the Love Never fails Quilt but just realised that I didn't take a photo of it, so it can wait till next time - which hopefully will not be as long as last time.


Annette B

Trying out blogger app

Just a small post to see how it works
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I seem to have lost my stitching mojo, so.if anyone finds it please tell it to come home.

WOW Wednesday

I have had a much better week.  I still have a hacking cough and I see the Specialist Monday, so hopefully he will have some answers.  I am sporting a swollen finger as I mashed it in Nathan's wardrobe door.  It is still throbing.  That will teach me to look at what I am doing.

This week I finished Christmas Card Holder and just love it.

Front of the Christmas Card Holder

Inside already filled with cards and names.

I also am working on The Joy of Christmas a beautiful stitchery by Gail Pan,  it was the first pattern from Cookies & Cream Christmas Club.  I love this. I had this beautiful batik fabric that is the perfect colour and the binding will be in the same green as the prairie points.

The Joy of Christmas - Gail Pan

To see what everyone else has been up to go and check out Esther's Blog.
Till next week God Bless Annette B

WIP Wednesday

How can a simple cold be so complicated.  The lung specalist has told me that I have bronchiectasis,  I have had further tests and am trying to come to terms with it all.  I caught a simple cold which turned into major complications and am informed that this is what will happen every time I get a cold.  The Dr. put me on 2 types of antibotics at once, his words were "We rarely do this, but it is a case of keeping you out of hospital."   I am starting to feel a little better but have lost my voice at the moment.

I have been working on a Christmas Card Holder designed by Ann Francene Dimmer. The pattern is from Handmade magazine.

Close up of the embroidery on the front

Front and Back

Inside

I am really pleased with how it is looking and thanks to Jenny of Elefantz   (she has a timely tutorial on doing binding and mitred corners) I am now ready to stitch the binding down and add a few little emblishments to it and then it is finished.

I have also been working a little on Sweet Nectar - this is a long time UFO

Sweet Nectar - Dimensions kit

To see what everyone else is up to on WIP Wednesday go and check out Esther's Blog

May God bless you and give you peace this week.

Annette B