Add some Shot cotton

 I've been saving my Reece Scannell shot cottons for a long time...

I've decided that they would be best experienced through a number of quilts rather than all plopped into one.

So i cracked them open and used some tiny pieces as borders for the (now all complete! Yay!) Stitcheries.

Oh yeah! Check out the ugly jumpers with this!

A little relax

I needed to pull out something that didn't need much brain power.

Back to 'Tis The Season by Natalie Bird if The Birdhouse.

The colours are so pretty.

I've pulled the thread colours from this "ugly jumper" print which will be used in the border somehow.

 

Final blocks made

 That's the final blocks. 12 made.

Watch me make the last two.

10 finished

 Two more blocks finished for Tis The Season little stitchery.

I just have to fondle this fabric, it's so so pretty!

Tis the season update

 8 out of 12 blocks finished! I am stitching every night using Cottage Garden Threads in a gorgoeus blue/aqua.

Will stitch some more tonight!

A new project

I spotted this Christmas fabric a little while ago and resisted. For as long as I could. It was quite pricey, I have a lot of Christmas projects to make already, and I didn't have anything in mind to make with it.

So I went looking for something in my pattern stash that I could get a handle on.

Aha! I found a little stitchery pattern, and it only needs a small amount of each print. 

Being satisfied that I knew what I would make with it (one of my conditions of buying most fabric, I say most, because some designers I just have to collect their fabrics. I just do. Non negotiable).

This little pattern is perfect.

The stitcheries are small and simple, so I can do them all in one variegated thread while watching TV in the evening, and this will get it started.

There's nothing like a project one has their teeth in, and can't put down. It's a driving force, and it's why some fabrics have to be bought. They just do. Patterns too.

Did I mention I am sewing in my Grinch slippers?

Of course, sometimes I take them off too.

Oh yes, oh yes. So beautiful. Love the fabrics together.

Let's get this made before Christmas! And go!

(And this is why the bee got shelved for a while, really it is... all this passion!!)
 

Tis December

 Hello December, here I come with my mad Christmas making rush!

This year it's for me, but it's still a mad rush!

Pattern: Tis The Season by Natalie Bird

At lease when I make myself something with a Christmas theme, I use it once a year. I hand embroidered a table cloth once, which took me about 6 months. I haven't used it even once. What a waste.

I saw this blue Christmas fabric and couldn't resist, but I didn't want to buy it, without a project in mind. So, here's the project. Can you figure out my brain? See the fabric, choose the project, so that I can buy the fabric to make the thing. Hee hee.

Tis The Season

Tis The Season for stitching... tee hee...

Yes, I do like stitchery for a holiday project.

These red and blue stitcheries will be used in another little wallhanging from the same pattern booklet. The original stitcheries were worked in only one colour. I am enjoying selecting different parts of the little pics to highlight.

A little hasty?

I may have been a little hasty with my hand over to 2011. I am on holiday in New Zealand.

Of course I brought stitchery (takes up hardly any space in the bags). I've already stitched these three little motifs in red and green thread. They will go into a little wallhanging "Tis The Season" designed by Natalie Bird. I chose the thread colours to match the fabrics I left at home.