June look back

New lights for the garden! Hot air balloons 😊 one of the selkies got some and I just loved them they look so pretty in the garden

Rocky! Mark got a walk with him

Also saw the donkeys on a bike ride

Awwww Jennifer Beavan. Bless her, she was an early boss when I worked at Aberdeen University, one of a kind, I learned a lot from her

The slosh 🤣🤣🤣🤣 came up in therapy and reminded me of this!

Kirsten taught me to slosh 🥰

My meter square looking braw

Ditto hanging baskets

Beautiful Jacky, more lovely presents ♥️

Mam sent me peony bulbs from her garden we will plant later on so hopefully they will grow next year 🤞

June ended with a great session with my therapist. I will get there 

June furtle

June started off as always with this month's phenology segment. This was blueberries 

I love how its shaping up

I had to wind a second bobbin! 2 bobbins in a year! That's progress 😊

This is my prep for the historical sampler Halloween stitch along starts 6th july

The book below captures a few finishes! I started recording the local temperatures in embroidery in 2021 and stopped in 2024. I had a few bits to finish up, the putting together of the 2023 embroideries blogged about here and the finishing up of the 2024 embroidery blogged about here

I did a reel for Instagram which sums up the whole book, i had also taken the pages of 2021 and 2022 out and remade them (not the whole embroideries thankfully!) Blogged about here

That's an end of an era as regards the temperature embroideries! I did enjoy doing them. Here's the reel

Buying counts as furtling right? 🤣 Japan crafts was selling this sashiko kit in aid of pride, one of my favourite sashiko patterns so I snapped it up

I have managed to cut out the siblings blocks from this month but not sewn together 

Ditto transatlantic community block

I can confidently predict this will be my first finish in July, only a little bit left to do.

So how did i do with the intentions for this month? 2 out of 2 not bad!

°Finish making up Temperature embroideries from 2023 (Carried over from May) ✅️

°transatlantic community quilt block

°cut and sew on borders for 2nd siblings quilt

°piece backing for siblings quilts✅️

Intentions for next month 

°transatlantic community quilt block (carried over from June)

°cut and sew on borders for 2nd siblings quilt (Carried over from June)

°2x siblings blocks from June

°2x siblings blocks for July

°sew on binding for Alice Caroline SOS quilt

Fettling 2026 mid year round up

So it's been a good 6 months of fettling. A lot of embroidery but also a fair amount of machine sewing too which is lovely to see. All helped by my new sewing room which is so good to see.

Ticked off in 1st half of 2026

Temperature embroideries 2023

Temperature embroideries 2024

Cherry blossom sashiko

Redo construction of 2021 and 2022 temperature embroideries 

Large mandala 

Medium mandala 

Small mandala 

Redo bunny pixie basket

Pressing mat from ironing bag

Pages read 2025

Floral Alphabet sampler

Dragonfly embroidery

Temperature embroideries 2024

I recorded the local temperatures from 2021 - 2024 this was the last time I recorded them. I switched from my previous template of spiders Web and started using Little light stitchery year in embroidery fabric. I love the swirl. Nicky also has these hoop butts which go in the back of your hoop, but im not using a hoop so I stitched it on the back instead. Im pretty chuffed with this! Its the final page in my temperature embroidery book 😊

Temperature embroideries 2023

This marks a real moment. For 2 years this pile has looked at me. When I was upstairs and still not able to sew i saw this every time I went to the sewing room which was every day. These are the temperature embroideries for 2023, paired with a monthly cross stitch from Victoria Sampler. I stitched those cross stitches when I first got long covid. There was a long long time I thought i would never be able to do these but here we are!

Now I have 12 bordered and trimmed cross stitches!

All pages sewn together,  got to add inner sashing to leaves then join leaves

And here they are all made up!

I did a video of all my embroideries together, I dont think ill go back to recording temperatures im quite happy at the moment recording pages read 😊 but i really enjoyed these