Have you ever had a day when you think your sewing is going good but then….

I’ve been trying to stitch a Dear Jane block today,  A11 Pebble’s Protest (aptly named almost should be Elly’s Protest) I thought all was going well.  Here are some photos I was taking of it along the way….

So far so good>

 

< stitched a partial seam… note should have been a little more seam stitched….but it went okay.

Until I tried to stitch the centre together :(( Not so good.   I had paper pieced the middles and those sharp triangles and as a result the seams were going in the same direction as each other when I was trying to join them.  Despite a few frog stitching and re-stitching efforts it was not going to play nice…. here’s a close up of the offending centre:-

I am going to have to do it all over again :(( or I won’t be a happy bunny.   I think I will hand piece the entire thing.

Anyway,  here are a couple of blocks I don’t think I’ve shown before.  First, a Dear Jane triangle “TR 3 Checkerboard”

 

and secondly a DJ block  “M11 Rickshaw”

And now for something not Dear Jane.

I also completed a couple of stitchery blocks from Lynette Anderson’s “My Garden” BOM and here they are:- 

Number 3   and

Number 4.  I am way behind on these :-/

Finally, one last picture. :))

Taken on Christmas Eve of the starter DD made for out supper.  Some Chinese Tea Eggs…. decorated to look like….. MUSHROOMS :))

The idea to turn the eggs into mushrooms with some halved tomatoes was mine but DD did it.  These made me think of my friend  Katrin as she loves mushrooms ;-D   They were delicious too.

Well that’s it for now.  I wonder what ufo I’ll pull out to work on this week…

Happy Stitching!

Ellyx