December furtle

Goodness I dont know where to start! In many ways its been my usual December a frenzy of finishes! I simply hate carrying a project over to the new year if I can help it (Blossom Jane is an exception!) I like nice neat finishes.

So first up, and this is in no particular order! First is the wheel of the year from stitch doodles, I did enjoy this

Up next is the Celtic wheel of the year from Carina Craft Blog, now this one I adored making I do love Carinas patterns. This will go on the wall!

Yes my top nine, I didnt share on instagram as I saw a fair bit of snark about top nines, but I still wanted to make mine just to see, I am happy with it, it pretty well sums up the year 😊

Aww cute wee dorset button, I do love making these, very satisfying and a nice reminder of the FOQ this year where I bought it

And yes this is a christmas movie 😂 and its the only christmas movie I could get scoobs to watch, so very happy to make do with this one!

Oh my Alan Rickman, surely the best screen baddie?

Aww Alexander Gudonov, a real teenage heart throb of mine!

Well this is very apt for a furtle post! I found these while furtling around in my button box, memories and momentos of the stitch gathering of 2017. I adored the stitch gatherings, so many friendships and happy memories made there

I am sloooooowly getting sucked back into Christmas but I am still standing strong with the "no presents" line, well mostly strong! I made these cute pin cushions for chums, lovely pattern by Arabesque Scissors

Oh and we finished another big cat! 4 down 5 to go! This is the tiger and I do love him rather a lot

Here he is with chums

I thought this was going to be the last quilt of the year, but no .... there is another to come! this is the sunny patches BOM from Coriander Quilts, I loved making this esepcially with the really bold setting

My lovely chum Jo brought back these cute labels from holiday, now I never really think about labelling the quilts I keep for myself but I should, I labelled 3 of my liberty quilts and have thoughts about making more labels so I can label everything else.

Aww and this came through! I love this email. For about 14 years now this lovely man has been passing on emails to me, His name is Samuel and he has almost the same email address as me, so if someone mis types my email he gets it. He passes them all on, always with a sweet message they always brighten my day

I found an ideal xmas card for scoobs 😂 I had already bought him one but this year he gets 2! because he is that special 💗
 

Last but definitely not least! My final quilt for 2023 😊, this was very last minute when I decided to make all the 6 inch blocks as well 🤣 but im glad I did and I love the finished quilt, so here it is in my very wintery house 🤣

So! Many many thanks to Archie The Wonderdog for hosting these furtles I do enjoy them so much 😊 have a lovely hogmanay ❤️

Botanics 2023

Last year was the first year we went to the light show at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. We loved it! So bought tickets for this year, but then this happened today!

We spent most of the day thinking we wouldn't get to go!

But then the rain came and washed it all away so off we went!

And it was beautiful ❤️ there are some videos below but a heads up they contain flashing lights.

My quilting life BOM

OK next year I will be more careful about which BOMs I sign up for 😂 Well famous last words!!

I dont regret signing up for this BOM by My quilting life. Nice blocks to make, allowed me to use up this fab ring ring text fabric which I have had for years, the background text fabric was on sale in sew hot, I love it a lot!

thing about mystery SALs is that you choose what you make (12 and/or 6 inch blocks) then you see the final layout and think "damn wish I had chosen to make both sizes instead of just the 12 inch blocks" then you think "OK I can make the 6 inch blocks" then your inner Sheldon kicks in and you want to do it so this is finished before the end of the year 😂then you do a poll on Instagram and 86% of your chums think "hell yes you can do that" and only 16% think "you're bonkers" 😂

Its all fun and I love havcing these non work challenges to keep me sharp, so lets see if it can be done!

The 12 inch blocks were pretty straightforward at times I wondered about my fabric choices but I have been doing this long enough to know to wait till the end to see. It all shakes down as you go along!

 

This is what I had left after 8 x 12 inch blocks

Below is all 12 of the 12 inch blocks

Sashing and cornerstones! I forgot there were sashings and cornerstones!!!!

OK onto the 6 inch blocks!!!

Cute!

trying not to be too matchy matchy!

Below is what I had left after cutting all the background fabric for the sashings and joining blocks 😯

It really started to pull together when I joined the 12 inch blocks with the sashings and corner stones

Ah yes there was a brief hiatus when I forgot how to wind my bobbin 😂

The center

I didnt have quite enough of any focal fabric for the inner border but I had enough of the background fabric to use at the corners to make do, I quite like the effect.

next up the outer border with the 6 inch blocks, its really looking good!

And here it is in all its glory 😊