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| Bought these new coloris threads from DMC |
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| Used some here to make a cute Cat Banner |
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| Adding a new family photo to my Crazy Quilt |
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| Adding a new photo of the grandsons and there are now 4 |
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| Also adding daughters new family photo |
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| Received these lovely roses from my neighbour |
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| UFO completed at last. Its a Gail Pan Design and I added a bit more to get it a bit bigger. all hand stitched |
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| the back and quilting done in red thread. |
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| Finished this rag quilt made up of my old denims and left over fleece lying here in my sewing room |
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| Here is the two sides, the fleece is so nice and soft. |
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| Its now heights of Mango season here and these are just so delicious |
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| Busy with a cute dragon baby quilt |
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| Beading now attached to my stems |
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| Busy embroidering a cushion cover for my fabulous chair and this is just the start of all the crazy embroidery that I am going to add |
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| Finished adding all the back labels to my Crazy Quilt and now completed exactly a year after I had it all together. Wow wondering where has time gone by so quickly. |
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| Here is where I have added more of the same embroidery over the seams to have a continues flow of embroidery and not block by block |
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| Here I joined the blocks with a lovely bright green leave and shades of pink french knots. The leaves came out great. I did a long stitch and then went over that with a chain stitch and then using the weaving technique I wove these lovely leaves through all three legs. uhm thinking I will have to make some more of these in the rest of the quilt as it was so nice and easy and also fun to see that the leaves did not all turn out to be exactly the same. |
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| Here the 4 seams come together just to show that I am now embroidering on the seams after joining my blocks together |
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| Joining at the new seams
Last but not least, at last I have now wrapped all
the Christmas gifts and just hoping the grandsons will
enjoy them.
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| Christmas decorations are now up and this is what it looks like before the lights are switched on. |
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| Here I have started with the embroidery after joining the blocks together into rows and now joined 2 rows I will be doing two by two and then join with the centre row. |
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| Well I am a very sentimental person and this proves it. We received a lovely set of different crystal glasses from my Mom and slowly over the years they have broken out and this is the last one left. Well I could not throw this one away and strange enough they all seemed to break just under the round of the glass. There is a lovely crystal ball just above the foot of the glass. So looking at it I turned the foot upside down and there we are I have my very own crystal ball in a nice snow bubble. Now I have preserved this piece of history for many years to come. |
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| Here you can see my crystal ball when the sprinklers have settled down. |
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| Okay here is what everyone has been waiting to see. Here I have laid out all 25 blocks of the crazy quilt and as you can see they are not arranged the way I wanted. But be assured I will be posting this when completed. |
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| All done, 10kg apricots into jam. I get apricots yearly and have to make into jam because the bought ones are not so tasty and also lot less sugar and no preservatives in. This will last us about a year. |
Well time goes by so quickly l have been so busy lately. Its winter school holidays and nearly over and it just flew by the grandson goes ba...
