April furtle

It's been a slightly lean furtling month since I've been gallivanting a lot 🤣 but there has been progress! A couple of small things ticked off fettle list, this drawstring bag for my sister, she has a sewing machine and this is for the foot peddle

I started a new scrap quilt 🤣 using up the black sashing from my Dear Jane quilt which I unpicked I'm making string blocks which will hopefully use up a lot if not most of my scraps, I dont like scraps they annoy me 🤣 I'm going to try and cut up future scraps and maybe make a drunkards path Scrap quilt? We shall see

below is not my work!!! But how gorgeous and fun is this bollard topper! See down Fraserburgh beach last week

Another finish! The one meaningful word embroidery from Lolli and Grace, I do love the variegated threads although the red did run a bit 😕

I need to get this quilted! Maybe in May? The selvedge quilt is all done top put together ready for quilting 

Tiny nine patch hmmmm I seem to have stalled on this, I will get back to it, I've chosen fabric for background just need to clear out some of the other in progress tops

As mentioned above I unpicked Dear Jane ditched the black sashing and used the background colours for sashing instead, I'm happy with the change, fingers crossed it will let me progress now

The center block of the "In the Meadow " BOM from Quiet Play, am loving this but need to crack on with it, I need to stop gallivanting 🤣🤣🤣 (never gonna happen 🤣🤣) 

Again another top ready the marbled fabric one!  It will get quilted along side the selvedge one 🤞🤞

And that's it for April! Linking up with Archie The Wonderdog for this months Furtle
 

Storygraph April 2024

 Hmm so I gave notes on an execution 4 stars? I sort of remember it? But not enough to make it still stand out for me? I must write more reviews that would help!

The library of the dead I really wanted to like this book but only gave it 3 stars an OK read but not amazing, I have some more in this series I'll see what they are like. Djnin patrol I didn't rate which means I probably didn't like it that much, I wanted to like it but I think it dragged too much for me?

 

April swimming

 Avon Lagoon 4/4/2024

Avon lagoon 8/4/2024

Avon lagoon 11/4/2024

Avon lagoon  13/4/2024

Avon lagoon 25/4/2024

Tralee beach 28/4/2024 with my Scoobs ❤️

Avon lagoon 30/4/2024

New Selkies bobble hat!!

Love these ladies 

One meaningful word mandala

 

We have a finish!!! Finishes have been a bit thin on the ground, it would help if I stopped gallivanting 🤣🤣🤣

This is the mandala from Lolli and Grace "one meaningful word" (I missed out the word in the middle deliberately)

I loved the use of variegated threads, even though the red one ran a bit. I do love a mandala as well. Lessons learned? In embroidery don't use a fabric which has a pattern printed on it (does that make sense?) This beautiful fabric is shadow liberty,  very lovely but the additional pattern print makes it a bit more difficult to pull the needle through with my hands, plus I used solve to print the pattern onto. A triple layer this did make it challenging for me

But I love it, it will go into the embroidery/temperature booklet for 2023 or 2024 as it straddled both years (and who is counting anyway 😉😉)

Drawstring bag for my sis!

 

We haz a finish! A nice small satisfying finish, it's a drawstring bag for my sis. She has a sewing machine which she keeps in her kitchen (it has a nautical theme) but the footpeddle keeps falling off the top so I thought I would make her a drawstring bag to contain it 😊 some nice tape measure twill for the drawstrings, slightly worried its too small but this is all I had left of the sea fabric, 🤞 she likes it