November swimming

Beautiful Benderloch and I got a dip!!! Loved this so much, a cool 12° outside the water and 9° in the water just beautiful 

October Furtle

 Im slowly get on with hooping up or finishing off older embroideries its nice being able to see these and use them again.

We have a finish! Not just an intention but also a fettle too 🎉 my autumn leaves are done and I love them, full blog post here

Whoof! This is such biggie! My first over the balcony quilt since 5th June 2024🎉🎉 the tiny 9 patch challenge quilt, blogged about here

Another embroidery finished up! I do love this one

New needle minder🦇

The stitching is finished but I wasnt able to get it fully finished off in time for Halloween 

Another embroidery hooped up

This was an intention ✅️ I stitched this last year and needed to finish it off. I made a mini quilt using the panda snowman fabric 

Meet Bernice the bat! Isn't she adoreable 💕🦇 blogged about here 

I got this cross stitch from a selkie chums over 2 years ago. I had made a small start but it's not really my style. But I decided to take it up to Benderloch with me because its small. Ive actually managed to do quite a lot up here it has stitched up very quickly. I just have to do the (mostly half stitch) outer bits now

How did i do with intentions? Not bad, 2 out of 4. The hollygon wreath has been on hold while I concentrated on Halloween things so I can pick it up again now. The Halloween cross stitch is mostly done. Im happy with this. 

Intentions for this month

°Finish hollygon Wreath (carried over from September)

°Finish Christmas cross stitch (Carried over from September)✅️

°Finish autumn leaves ✅️

°Finish Halloween x stitch 

(Carried over from August) 

Intentions for next month 

°Finish hollygon Wreath (carried over from September)

°Finish Halloween x stitch 

(Carried over from August)

°Siblings blocks (October and November)

°Dolly's Stroll cross stitch

October look back

 No it's not K9 🤣 Mark has a new hobby ... hot tent camping 🤦‍♀️ this is the stove for the tent

It's getting really chilly now, Frost on neighbours sad unfinished shed

A fabric present received 💕

I got downstairs into the garden!

There were some buds on the roses which wouldn't bloom outside so we took them in

This is the before! While we are away on holiday Dean will be repainting the bannisters. Can't wait to see the after!

This is hysterical 🤣 we left key with Dean to paint our bannisters while we were away. But yesterday he messaged that baby sitters let him down so he couldnt start yet. We had to leave and just hope it would be ok today. But i didnt want to hassle him for confirmation but was fretting anyhoo i got unexpected confirmation that he did manage to start today

Thanks to a royal mail delivery 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We are up in Benderloch! It's so lovely up here

My heart ❤️ 

We took the roses up here with us and some came out quite well

Bats

I've only recently started following Sew Yeah. But I have quickly fallen in love with her felt creations. When i saw her pattern for Bernice the bat I knew i had to make it. We start with a cute little body. Look at those adoreable fangs! 

The body then gets stuffed and the legs sewn in

Next up the wings, both back and front get embroidered. This was great fun!

The legs got a bit squished at one point 😱 but some surgery did the trick

Et voilà 🎉🎉🦇🦇 Mark really really loves Bernice but I made her with the intention of gifting to a friend but ill make another for Mark 😊🦇

Pick a petal months 2 and 3

So let's see how months 2 and 3 go! There is one block for each month, we need 30 of each, from the Facebook group month 2 sems straightforward but month 3 is giving some folks difficulties. I learned from month one that I need to be a bit looser with my seam allowance and stricter with my template marking so let's see if I can get these 2 months to come out more to size! I figured I can cut out the majority of the block pieces from charm packs, which is good because I've had 8 laying around for ages needing used up! Ive put 2 aside for my Threadneedle street quilt the others I'll use here

I got the fabric for this basket years ago I decided it was too nice to cut up so I made a 1 hour basket out of it

I had 2 of the above

Ive decided to use the one below too, I got this several years ago from a lovely lady on social media Dustys100days I think was her username. I never met her but we chatted a lot. She sent me this from quiltcon in 2021? I think? Or maybe even 2020 I think it was held before lockdown?

I've kept it for years waiting for the right project. Well I think this is the right project 😊

So here is my 1st block 2! Am super chuffed with it, it's almost perfectly to size

Before pressing 

After pressing!

I'm in the Facebook group for this but continually have to bite my tongue. So many folks just not reading any instructions or looking at the videos (which are fairly short but really good) so much whining about how long this will take 🤦‍♀️ I genuinely don't understand what they thought they were signing up for?

So above is month 3 before pressing 😊 but blimey its a tricky one to do 😳 

Below is it after pressing its pretty near to size thankfully but I'll continue to cut the outer bigger and trim down just to be safe!

Below was my first attempt at machine sewing this one,  a bit more practice needed but this is the way to go i feel!

Second machine pieced one im slowly figuring it out 

First outer block done, really straightforward 

2 more completed!

All blocks so far

Im going to post this now, the blocks are on the back burner just now, all cut out and ready to go.