Furtling and finishalonging Sept 2021

 Well well well its the end of September 😳 sheesh when oh when did we get here? I dunno, time soup, it all just feels like time soup.

Anyhoo. Here we are so what happened in September? Well I work in Higher Education and we did the whole return to campus thing, in the middle (virus not gone away!) of a Global Pandemic, so you can just build your own picture of the stress levels.

Hey ho, back to crafting! I am Sheldon (from Big Bang) I know this and embrace it but it means that when the Finish Along insta account goes AWOL in the middle of the finish along I get twitchy, do I still post its not completed for the year (STRESS!) i can do with incomplete things. So I decided to wrap it up with the furtle and include my FAL Q3 list in here.

So thats the Q3 list, poor Blossom Jane is still languishing but she gets a few blocks done every now and then thats as much as i can do just now.

Garden Trellis is waiting to be long armed, binding is all done on that. Oh Michael Powell Cross stitch is done - hoorah!, Hexagon sewing case, yup am on it, Alice Caroline well that features below, all the others still have to get off the starting block but we will get there!

So above is my 2nd quilt for Alice Caroline SOS this year, I can only commit to 2, i decided to make a love and kisses quilt from the lovely Jenni Smith Quilting with liberty book, great way to use up scraps.

You know me, its all about the organising, cutting for the blocks was the main chore so i did most of that in one go, all set up for chain piecing!

I did do one blossom Jane block! Making a start on row E, i do love this crane fabric from Japan Crafts

And here is the Michael Powell cross stitch from the Q3 FAL list a lovely chum found this lurking in her sewing room and knew i love his kits so much so she gave me this one to do, so lovely. They are such a satisfying make.

The temperature spiders wen embroidery carries on, below is up to August

And here is where i am at for September.

It’s great seeing the days come alive with colour, I am making a mandala to go along with each month. All of these patterns from Carina Envoldsen Harris - Carina Craft blog on insta (she made the free spiders web temperature pattern too)

I have made 5 so far, love these little ones, I love picking the colours for each month, below is an autumnal month obviously!

I think thats it for this month. Fingers crossed life will calm down a bit …. But goodness knows when!

Love and kisses

 

I need another quilt for the Alice Caroline sos for 2021. I have always tried to make 3 but I just cant do that this year, two will have to do.

I had a trial block from the transatlantic love and kisses quilt left over so I decide to work around that and make a love and kisses quilt. Super quilt block from the Quilting with Liberty book by Jenni Smith.

I had a few meters of Louden left from the standfast and barracks haul so that will be the background fabric. The rest is just cut from scraps so far trying to use them up.

I had a fairly good run at it this weekend, but am scaling back my ambitions! It’s gone from a 6 by 9 row quilt to a 5 by 7 row quilt with borders 😂

Blossom Jane row D

 So we have the first three rows put together. Interesting. This is going to be quite a bold quilt but i never do subtle!!!

I’m really enjoying fussy cutting fabrics

I remember buying this pussy cat fabric in Tokyo in the nipori fabric district, that was a lovely day.

So that’s row D blocks done, need to put them together and sew onto the first 3 rows, I’m struggling a bit just now finding the motivation but I know it will come back just got to plough on.

First block of row E done, slowly slowly getting there.