February furtle

Well hello to February's furtle!! This is being posted from a completely different time zone so I have no clue if it's still February in the UK 🤣🤣

Anyhow I had got most of this prepped before I left. February has been mainly about tiny nine patches, the challenge hosted by Taryn of reproquiltlover. Oh my word how I love making these blocks! Funnily though it doesn't seem to make much of a dent in my liberty scraps pile ....

Above I was auditioning backgrounds I think I'm going to have to go for a light one I xant find any more of the one above so am just going to order a white or pale blue lawn fabric I think, maybe a very pale blue?

Above is my mood tracker embroidery. I'm really loving this, greener colours are calm or happy. Purple is sad worried or angry, yellow excited and blue tired. I don't mind a bit of Purple now and then, to appreciate the rainbow we must have the rain. 

Also finished making all my selvedge blocks!!! This is what was left!

Looking forward to putting these together when I get back.

Well this was a huge tick of the fettle list!!! My planets quilt is done!! I am beyond chuffed with this one

Awww look what a lovely chum sent me for my swimming!!! Take me to the water indeed!!!

The picture below was taken at a sewing day as I was laying my things out I realised that everything here had been gifted by lovely chums and what a nice way to take them sewing with me 😊

So many wonderful memories popped up when I was sewing the selvedges! Look! Summersville!

This was the last of the 9 patches before I left!

So just now I'm in Japan!!! How exciting,  first visit was to pick up some gorgeous yuwa and kokka fabric from the Hankyu department store look! Moomins!

Hello kitty liberty!!!

And panda tags 🥰🥰🥰

I'll leave it there! Thanks as always Archiethewonderdog for hosting the furtle 😊😊

When rocky came to stay

 Just some pictures to celebrate this wee pup. Gentle stubborn and gorgeous 

Rocky instruction manual 🤣🤣

Bags!

so! We are all very very excited here, very nervous too but hey, just grateful to be getting out again, off to Japan in 5 days time!

Hankering down in preparation so what better to do than whip up some bags and whittle down the fettle list!

Above is another mermaid for another swimming buddy gift. Below we have some Emmaline bags, 2 for a crafty chums auction and 1 for my 

Finished Selkie pouch! It's the open wide pouch by noodlehead, a perennial favourite 😊

I also wanted some pouches for 2 of my most treasured notebooks, my Goshuin (shrine stamp) book and my travel journal,  I bought that in Florence, I'll need to get a new one  when I go back this year!

The Hemminway pouch by Centerstreet quilts was perfect for these, a great pattern ,loved making it.

1st visit to Broch 2024

well, I wasnt expecting to have to scrap the inside of my car windscreen ... its gone all cold here again. Hey ho, first trip up North in 2024. I am currently in the bad books again, not staying with mam has upset her ... I cant win really? Twas always thus.

A quick pit stop for lunch in Aberdeen with a good chum who understands helps smooth the process as does a walk along Aberdeen beach

Broch beach is wild, beautiful but wild

I decided to visit another local graveyard, Lonmay, I was looking for a specific grave but couldnt find it. Found many other intersting ones though

I remember Fraser Corbett well, owned a farm and hotel in the Broch, those were the days.

Betty Ross, what a beautiful lady she was, so loving.

A new mug to go with my coaster!

Ah yes, here she is, slightly scary and scratchy, how very appropriate ....