Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Blimey we have a finish!!!

Well! We have a finish! First one in a year 😳 and yes it was over half done but that's not the point 🤣 behold! My temperature embroidery for 2024
I had done up to August last year but then long covid really started kicking my back side. But now new therapist new room and I finally felt like picking something up again 😊 I restarted this in June and have loved having a hoop in my hand again 🥰 I've reached the end of this notebook which is a bit sad, I bought it at the American museum in Bath in 2019 at a Kaffe Fassett exhibition, it's been my book for temperatures for 2023 and 2024 but not to worry! I have sent lovely new book lined up for 2025 and it's already chock full of data, not temperatures though I'm going to change tak


I took progress shots as I went along, love my spiffy new needle minder too 😊
















Thursday, 12 June 2025

Fettle the finishes mid year check in

Well! I might be on the verge of posting a finish!!! So I thought it was time to give the list a reaaaaaaalllllly good prune. Even if I make a full recovery I don't know that I want to go back to the big level of quilting/Crafting that I used to do. Also we will be moving in 3 years so I might not have as generous a Crafting space? But anyway there are many reasons to have a big prune, I will update the page but wanted to keep this here as a reminder of what I have pruned! So here goes!

Non quilting crafts - In progress
Sashiko Snowmen 
Temperature embroideries 2023 + 2024
Pages read 2025
Emotions wheel of the year for 2024 removed May 2025
Tea cup cross stitch
Woodland embroidery 

Non quilting crafts -waiting list
3x 2 in 1 pouches for cross stitch
Floral Alphabet sampler
Phenology Wheel - use flower patterns from Stitchdoodles
2x Michael Powell bookmarks
Lion embroidery
Racoon embroidery 
Planet embroidery 
Moon embroidery  
Sashiko from Kyoto
Cherry blossom sashiko
Sea cross stitch kit from Jan

Christmas stitching
Curly life felt advent ornaments 2023 & 2024
Historical Sampler advent
Christmas tree Sashiko
Michael Powell snowy chapel X stitch
Michael Powell snowy street X stitch
Michael Powell snowy Cottage X stitch

Seasonal stitching
Bat and ghost felt ornaments 
Halloween mandala
Autumn fox
Four seasons By Nitka
Quilting projects
Blossom Jane

Floral big cats -Panther liontiger, lynx, cheetah, Jaguar, mountain lion, snow leopard, cloud leopard

Bargello Angels wings with Tula (serenity pattern)
Moda Blockheads done in donated fabric 
Scrap quilt drunkards path
Sisters quilt 
Block holders to take to classes
Scrappy nine patch

Sew Alongs 2024 Weekly Monthly Other
In the meadow by quiet play in speckled, January-June


The waiting list
Pick a petal Jen Kingwell 
Applique quilt - Threadneedle street
7 charm pack Quilts
Oval drunkards path blocks with Vintage table cloths
Janet Clare minincharm pack Quilts
8 sea parrot Quilts (may combine some)
Vintage flower sampler quilt
Tilda quilt
Birds and baskets quilt in AMH echinacea
Sweet William quilt?
Tula butterfly in capel and castaway or using left over speckled?
Medallion quilt in liberty big prints
Orphan block quilts?
Jen Kingwell Bakers dozen, Blockheads or pluses quilt in Lucy Engles bundles?
Tamara Kate beetle pattern


Ticked off in 2nd half 2024

Ticked off in 1st half of 2024
Spare bobble hat for me  removed June 2024 no longer needed

Ticked off in 2nd half 2023
Ticked off in 1st half 2023
Ticked off in 1st half 2022

Saturday, 7 June 2025

June seasons

 So welcome June! This is the far left corner of the garden and neither of us can remember what the tree is 🤦‍♀️ once it's blooming again i can look it up
June has been a bit mixed so far, still colder days occasionally and rain. 
Everything is so much greener, flowers in bloom too, just all a bit more summery
And yes thank you for asking! i did take this myself! Being down here on the middle floor has opened up so much more it's wonderful 
January
February 
March
April
May
June