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

First a Frog

I thought I’d share with you a frog my daughter saw in my front garden the other day and took this photo.  It wasn’t as big as it appears ;)  You can see her deviant art signature in the photo.

I’ve completed Lynette Anderson’s “My Garden” block 2 and here it is:-

Now to re-do the first block which I ruined with over enthusiastic pressing!!

Here are some Dear Jane blocks I’ve completed since I last wrote :-

TR1 – triangle, paper pieced and   E-4 Buffalo Tree Hopper, hand pieced.

Finally I’ll like to show you the status of my Clamshells…  Or should that be the state of them? ;)

It is not stitched – well unless you count un-stitching.  I unstitched both previous blocks and re-arranged them to make the whole think… minus borders.   Yes it will be not much bigger than in the photo here.  Then I plan to make a better fabric choice – one to my liking and make a little quilt using the Inklingo Clamshell Sashing Collection  -THANK YOU DEAREST FRUMMIE!! -  There is a really cute design using them on Linda’s blog here: http://www.lindafranz.com/blog/    The Clamshells in the above photo were also printed using Inklingo.         

Finally, for now, here is a picture of the rose Pink Bells that was blooming in my garden a couple of weeks ago. 

The bush was full of blooms like this but sadly it went over pretty quick and will only get the odd bloom from now ‘til winter. 

Until laters,  Happy Stitching

Ellyx