The start of the season.

Well its that time of year, where there is more to do that you have time to do it. Our first Christmas party tomorrow, we are taking LM to my works Children's Christmas party. Hopefully it will be a good afternoon. Got my SSCS parcel in the mail earlier this week and am trying to get my family's gifts off today.

My guild does a 12 days of Christmas swap, where we buy / make 12 little gift to the person who's named you have pulled. The $ cost is meant to be low, with the last gift giving away who the giver is. Can wait to start opening mine. We all use the same bag to make it harder to tell who your secret Santa is.

I will have to share a picture off all my little presents once I start opening them. When we open them is up to us, some do on ever second day starting on the 1st of Dec, other one every day starting on the 13th( think this is what I will do), and some save them all for Xmas day.

Amongst getting Christmas stuff ready I finished this split 9 patch wall hanging. It is mad from a charm pack. It had been sitting waiting for binding as I had in m head that it should be green, but couldn't find the right one. Going to retreat I decided just to grab something that would work from my stash, just to get it done. I think this purple binding works well. It can be funny how we get ideas like that in our heads.

I am very pleased with how this turned out.

Floss

Still here

Just letting you know that I'm still here. Got busy, then have been on vacation for a week. I was great to get away. Not so much fun coming home to all this snow. Will have to go check if I have to dig the car out later.

I did get my Christmas swap present finished before leaving, just need to get them wrapped and then the will be on there way.

Will share more soon
Floss

Happy Halloween

Ready for Trick or Treaters.

Retreat

It was a good retreat, I still haven't finished unpacking, I'm sure I'll get to it soon. I was running a little later Friday than I had planned, but still got there in time to set up before super. Friday night sew the machine part of the binding for a wall hanging and a couple of table runners. I will put there by my chair and finish then off in the next couple of weeks.

On Saturday my plan was to work on my floral quilt. I started with the corner stone on the last boarder.
Once these were completed I moved onto setting the pinwheels for the same border into bigger squares. Now I just have to make the applique border and all bits will be done.

After this I just worked on a small stichery as I wanted to get off the machine. It was the first time I have taken any hand work on retreat and I must say I like the change it gave me.

We also made a take away. These fun hedge hogs, they look more like it with pins in them. Some are still in progress at the time of the photo, mine is the pink one. On Sunday the retreat finished after lunch so I pulled out my jars, which were in the same state as I left them at the last retreat, and was able to get the blocks finished. I just love how these blocks turned out. Now I look forward to finishing some of my Christmas items, so I can make the jars up into a table topper. It was a fun to get out of the city and be able to sew. I am happy that I am able to do this a couple of times a year.
Floss

Stowaway

Had a great weekend at retreat, am quite tired today. We are only 15 minutes from the city but I always feel like I'm in the country, I think a lot has to do with the drive though the trees to get into the camp.

LM helped me pack and I had a little stowaway. This little elephant normally like in LM crib but I guess she wanted to get out and see a bit more of the world and maybe LM wanted to make sure I had company.

Once at retreat she tried sewing but found that to be a bit tricky so moved over to supervising, making me work late into the night LOL.

LM was very happy to see us both back home.

More soon with the projects I worked on at retreat.

Floss

Heading out the door.

no quilting these past couple of weeks, have had bronchitis and then a busy Thanksgiving weekend. Should get some sewing done this weekend as I am heading out for a weekend retreat.

Floss

Working away

Spent Friday afternoon in the sewing room, but can't share very much of it. I was mainly working on Christmas exchange present so I can not post on the blog. I got three small project quilted and two are based ready to go.

On one of Christmas presents I am stuck on how to quilt it but cannot ask for help. I'm sure something will come to me. While I was thinking about it how to quilt that , how to quilt this wall hanging came to mind. I had been stuck on how to quilt it too.

It very simple quilting, I had been thinking of something fancier, but I think I prefer simple when it comes to my quilting. Hopefully I'll be able to finish quilting the last two and get the binding done in the next couple of weeks.