December furtle

 Well, sayonara December 2020, i wont be sad to see the end of 2020, 2021 will also still have challenges but hopefully light at the end of the tunnel? the winter months have still been full of fence posts and donkeys! Honestly these have been the highlight of my day.

but what crafting? There was still crafting going on! I got the first row of Blossom Jane done! Really enjoying this and finding out more about quilting in the civil war.

I made some pouches! And used my sooner speshul panda snowmen fabric, this is a lovely quick and satisfying make from “that handmade touch” by Svetlana Sotak

And I did it in Rose gold fancy metallics as well !

I had some finish along finishes too! My Isabel shawl was finish no 3 on my q4 list, the lovely uchitata merino single wool was fantastic to knit with

I bought this wool on the last indie burgh craft crawl, a great event held in Edinburgh every year well not last year obvs! I got back into knitting because of that event, this is the last ball of wool before I have to contemplate the “worlds most expensive ball of wool” and what I am going to do with that, but for now I have got my cross stitch groove back on again so that’s keeping me occupied!

I won these fat quarters on instagram from the lovely Morris Textiles, I have been saving them up until I could find a pattern that I could use them all up in, I found that in the hunters star pattern from issue 67 of todays quilter it’s by Lynne Goldsworthy, lillysauilts, I couldn’t make the whole of the pattern it had a churn dash border but I had just enough to make the center hunters star part, i literally had trimming left over I used every single scrap of this fabric! Which I am pleased about.

I have also gone on a finish along sprint, trying to finish as many long languishing projects as I can ... it’s cold and icy outside so I can’t go for walks, I have my wee stepping machine which I can do while I am watching filmed, currently binging on the hobbit films, I used to curse Peter Jackson for making so many films out of a small book but not now!

Ok it’s New Year’s Eve I have had a few  gins.... (quite a lot ...) and some cava so apologies for spolling mistooks 😂

It’s been the weirdest year ever hasnt it??  Strange terrifying and grinding, thats a good word for it, grinding!

Anyhoo here it the finished hunters star quilt! I love it. Pattern is the center part of the shining stars quilt from Lynne Goldsworthy in Todays Quilter

Look at my lovely Scoobs freezing his butt off for husbandsholdingquilts action!

I had some charm pack finishes on my finish along list so I got a wiggle on and managed four quilts!! Dead chuffed with these

Bless my Scoobs, he humours me I do love him so.

I managed to use up three charm packs and one mini charm pack in these, they will go to project Linus, so many folks in need just now.

What else!! I made some mini makes from arabesque scissors using up long hoarded Neptune and the maiden fabric from Tokyo milk

I loved making this. I also used up more of this fabric making a large rub from the tub family pattern from Rosie Taylor crafts, I love this pattern so much, it’s lined with indigo damask batik from African fabric shop,i bought this on a shopping trip with my chum Andy, happy memories 😊

And that’s it for 2020!! Stay safe luffly chums, see you on the other side.

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.