November Furtle

 Good grief Charlie Brown!! November we are at the end of November .... goodness, where has this year gone, at times the days expanded at times they contracted, it has been a bonkers year and i know for many a very very hard one.

Chez Budsmam November has been very productive!!! Loooooooook at these finishes!!

Oh fark these are upside down! Anyhoo, i made 22, yes count them 22 zippy pouches and filled them with chocolates for the local toy appeal. 

I revisited this beauty! My silk quilt, finished in 2016 but i lost the blog post and the pictures, so the great British quilter IG prompts were a good excuse to revisit it and re photograph it! Poor Scoobs was a bit cold!

Ahhhhh now there will be a blog post about this one, my dancing ribbons quilt is done! Just in time to enter to quilt con .... i wont get in but i had such fun making this one, amazing pattern by Jenny Haynes, pappersaxsten.

Awww another Jenny Haynes pattern! This one is spruced up, Jenny and Lucy Engles has a fun sew along and there was a fun free class that me and my chum Irene managed to sign up too. OK not as great as a real face to face class but it was still great fun.. I put some charms on the branches and a jungly panda on top instead of a fairy! I love it.

Making slow progress with my Blossom Jane but its going in the right direction!

Ahhhh still working on the Isabel shawl, i seem to make good progress then make a mistake and have to rip out a couple of rows , Ill get there ...

The very first Blossom Jane block.

And thats November, I simply cant wait for the December break, this has been a totally s**t year but things like furtling and good chums keep us all going.

Hole punch ribbon quilt

what a fab class, I love a PapperSaxSten class and even thought this one was on line and not in person I still adored it. Jenny is such a generous and dedicated teacher, she spends every minute of the class looking after her students. I have wanted to do this class with her for ages. I did consider doing it 121 which would be lovely but for me part of the joy of a class is seeing everyone else and what they do. as luck would have it my shoulder was borked the weekend of the class and i didnt get a chance to do any at the time. as soon as shoulder was better i got on it! I had swithered about colours and fabrics for ages but ended up going for shweshwe fabrics. So bright and joyous, I only had half meters max of most of them so had to be a bit creative with how I used them. I did two strips and knew i had to do two more. I was right!!!!

The rythm and need to concentrate fully was a godsend, this was during a particularly challenging time at work and during the virus, all of this was such a good distraction!.

I tried a few different layouts on IG, I think they all work on a different level.

the one above was a favourite but the lovely Mary from my work suggested the layut below and i think it works better.

I put the red border on becuase thats all i had enough fabric of, but Jenny suggested pieced colour border and it does work better, many thanks to the African fabric company for their quick dispatch and delivery!!

Sigh, the things you have to do to get a half way decent shot! riskng life and limb ...

Quilting was a challenge, up against the clock (want to enter to quilt con ...) only have my domestic machine and poor quilting skillz ...

FAL Q4

 Oh I know I know, we are not doing the FAL on blogs anymore and the FAL has paused on IG for this year but will come back next year! But hey, indulge me I am finding myself increasingly more and more like Sheldon cooper, there was an episode when Amy tried to cure him of his compulsion to complete things, Im with Sheldon on this!

Anyhoo, I have things on my list and i need some way to tie them up! so here goes.

No 1 - Garden Trellis

No 2 - Dear Jane

No 3 - Ishbel shawl

No 4 - mini makes (ignore the 5 thats from a previous list!)

No 5 - hole punch ribbon quilt

No 6 - hunters star

I have the pattern for this from todays quilter, Im still unsure as to what fabric i will use so lets leave that for now!

No 7 - Charm pack for linus

No 8 - Mini charm pack for linus

No 9 - Michael Powell x stitch

No 10 - spruced up quilt

this is one I made last year but want to make some more for the SAL

Stitch on banner

 Awwww, i love this pattern so much. I wanted to make this but hey i have enough banners, I saw that the lovely Natalie said she liked it but couldn’t make it because she cant FPP, well she is so lovely I wanted to make this for her. She loves it! Thats good. 

October furtling, yup im late!!!

 Well where the heck did October get too!!!!!! OMG, but i got away, i got a break!! an actual real life holiday and it wasnt in my own home!!!!

So what happened in October??

OOOHH, I signed up for the Spruce along! I adore Jenny Haynes, Papper Saxsten and I adore Lucy Engles so what would be better than a SAL from them both! I have already made this pattern the Spruced up xmas tree but it will make nice presents so I signed up to do it again this year.

I got a Wool i am badge!!!! loooooooook my own bit of Bert :-) so I added that to my badge pennant (above)

Awwww my Scoobs ! aint he lovely! I made the stitch on banner, fabulous FPP pattern by happy sew lucky. Really enjoyed making this, its a surprise present for a chum I dot think they have it yet but i hope they get it soon!

Oh yes! i can finally reveal my Rainbow quilt made for the Glasgow modern quilt guild. I used Helen Steele handprinted fabrics for this, I love it, so nice and bright

oh not crafty but we bought the book Olive Mabel and Me .... So we got to see them sign the book and Mr Cotter talk about it, we loved this.

noo chums! Sammy Snail joined us and fitted in straight away (might be the glass of red wine!!! 

Did I mention i love Jenny Haynes? well i do! and i looooooooove the hole punch ribbon pattern, so in love with this.

this layout below was the preferred option might play with it a bit more before putting it together. all done in shweshwe fabrics.

awwww and this is why we went away for a break, 10 years ...... loved very minute of them.