Rainbow Scrappy Challenge and Across the Pond

Good Sunday morning to you all!  Again I’m late with the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge  post.  But I needed to finish up a couple of things so I could post them.

Not a lot in the way of pink this past week but I did make a pink Dear Jane :

F-10 Pot Holder

and I have a pink quilt to show you which I completed last year.  My apologies for the lighting.  Natural light is very poor at this time of year and the artificial lighting isn’t good.  From My Heart designed by Debbie Mumm

This was a free pattern on her web site several years ago.  I chose a pink and brown palette to give an antique effect.

Next, I finally completed the December Challenge for Across The Pond Sew Along Flickr group hosted by Amy Made That!  The Patchsmith  and Susie’s Sunroom

This placemat pattern was designed byAmanda of The Patchsmith for December’s challenge.  There is supposed to be a napkin and holder on one of the borders but I left it off.  I’ll be using it as a tabletopper.  Here it is modelled by a couple of bunnies and the prairie corner tree which was made by myself and DD just before Christmas.  I couldn’t bare to put it away.

So that’s it from me for this week.  I would love to play longer with pinks but this is the last weekend for this month’s challenge.  Maybe I’ll squeeze a bit of pink in before the end of the month.  I’m excited now to know what February’s colour will be.

If you’d like to see what everyone else has to show for their last Rainbow Scrappy Challenge then go visit Angela’s Soscrappy blog here. 

Ooopsy!  Nearly forgot to show the finished wash cloth I made from the Craftsy Tunisian Crochet course.  Here it is warts an’ all

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday and so on and so forth.

I haven’t done much sewing this past week for a real contribution to Rainbow Scrappy Saturday.  I’ve done a little crochet but not much sewing. 

If you’d like to see what others have done this past week for their Rainbow Scrappy challenge this week go to Soscrappy’s blog here.

However, I do have some pictures to share with you this last Saturday of the month :)  Some are pink too ;)

First pink related item 2 blue bowls/dishes purchased at a local charity shop for £1, sitting on my April Calendar quilt.

Next up, same wallhanging with another charity shop find:

  

 

 

 

 

 

A little heart shaped crocheted container.  It was only 50pence!!  I couldn’t leave it on the shelf.

Next find is a little cut glass candle holder plate for £1:

These were all bought on my day out with DD on Tuesday.  I thought a couple of them would make great pincushion bases.  The small blue glass bowl and the cut glass one.  Now as to when I’ll do these well… LOL.

Here’s a clear picture of the April Wallhanging (revisited) ready to put up above my sewing table tomorrow.

Now I did accomplish something yesterday evening.  I added sashings to the first row blocks of my Dear Jane and sewed them together :)

The row is so wide it extended beyond the width of my design wall where I pinned it up on to take the picture:

This should be clickable for a bigger picture.

I’m hoping I can keep this up and stitch rows together as I complete them.

Oh there is one more thing that I sewed up this week.   It was DH’s birthday yesterday but he really didn’t want much except he had asked me to make him a simple coin bag…. a very simple coin bag.  He even told me what fabric he wanted it in…. plain old heavy weight muslin. AND he also told me how to go about making it LOL… speak about telling your granny how to suck eggs!!!  Oh well I humoured him.  However, I drew the line at an absolutely boring plain bag and added a little machine embroider and his name. ;))

He has now caught up with me in age :))

Finally, I can’t leave without showing you a picture of our black bunny Malachi aka Bun Bun.  He is such a sweetie and as daft as a brush :

This is a picture taken just the other day in the garden… when we had summer visit us.  He is Chichi Bun’s Husbun.

 

That’s all for now ;)

Enjoy your weekend!

Hugs

Ellyx

RAINBOW SCRAPPY SATURDAY with Operation Fix Teddy report

This month the challenge colour is PINK!  Love PINK!!  But strangely I don’t have a lot of small scraps in pink.  So I’m going to be using slightly bigger scraps such as Fat 8ths or even FQs… some folk would consider those scraps right?  Though not me… they are big pieces, LOL..

Anyhow :) here is the box of my pink scraps.

And here are my pink Disappearing 4 Patches in progress.. I’ve completed 2 with 2 half done.

  I’ve also cut a few 21/2 inch squares for a possible Mug Rug :)

Now here is  a challenge that my DD has set me.  I will call it Operation Fix Teddy… OFT for short.  Let me introduce you to Teddy.

Here is a full (and I use that term tongue in cheek) body of her and here is her head:

As you can see (when you’ve picked yourself off the floor from laughing) I have quite a challenge on my hands.   In the plastic bag in the first picture are the pieces of pink fabric that DD wishes me to use.

Teddy joined our family when DD was almost 2.  DD is now 22!  But she cannot let Teddy be consigned to the refuse bin…. OH NO!  Teddy has been DD’s comforter all these years.   Over the years Teddy has been in hospital on many occasions for minor surgery.  The most serious of which was a nose job…  however, as you can see she is now needing major surgery….. and this surgeon hasn’t a clue where to start!!! LOL…  However, I think a good start is to try and make a pattern from the little bit of face that’s left on the right side.   Wish me luck!!!   By the way, her face was originally the same pink as her legs… though it was a lot brighter.

If you’d like to see what the other Rainbow Scrappy reports then go take a look at the linky on Soscrappy’s blog.

Have a great weekend!

p.s.  here is a bunny picture to close :)

Beautiful Chichi Bun