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bits and pieces

i ve been doing lot's of bits and pieces lately a little of this and a little of that i rediscovered a long put aside stitchery i think i was actually working on this stitchery the second year i attended GDITC so this is at least 2 years old, i am really enjoying stitching again  (i tended to gravitate to the machine more recently) but i learn't a while ago with my stitching to just go with the flow, i try very hard not to work on something i am not enjoying so if i don't feel like working on it i put it away, and like this gorgeous stitchery when i m ready i ll come back to it Cooper and i put in a couple of hours on Sunday night watching the Tennis , drinking tea and stitching it was a very productive night, even if i was a tiny bit disappointed that Andy Murray lost..... my next few blocks of my winding ways pinned ready to be stitched i was working away, with Victoria the other night, and i must of really had my phot

a finish and a rediscovery

Toward the end of last year Thorpe and Co had a bit of a fabric sale i grabbed three different fabrics to make some skirts this is the first of the three skirts it is made in an  Amy Butler fabric i think it looks really fresh and summery (shame about the old wobbly legs coming out the bottom) i tried to make it look really professional and double top stitched the side seams put an invisible zipper in and added a little detail to the bottom the bottom detail a bias hem way way back in July 2011 i attended a workshop i blogged about it here for the past 18 months this project was shelved in it's little box waiting . . . .  so out she came and i had a little play and it is back on the sewing cabinet and my motivation to get some work done on it is at an all time high unfortunately for my rediscovered project Today i dropped Victoria (my sewing machine) off for a service at Thorpe and co (the service cent

SSCS

This post is a little late, but as i have been away on a little mini holiday, i haven't had a chance to put this up until now on Christmas day i opened all my lovely pressie's from my family and friends and as i was cleaning up i noticed that there was still one lone pressie still under the tree it was with great excitement i opened my SSCS pressie from Nemo i received this absolutely gorgeous wall hanging, lovingly stitched  in Norway look at the gorgeous stitching and designs i also received this lovely little calendar and some very yummy chocolate, can't wait to open these  i know it has been said a hundred times, but here it comes again i just want to say a huge Thank you to Chookyblue for all the hard work she put into the SSCS swap it's a huge job and no body does it better than Chooky just wanted to share with you what i have been very lucky to have enjoyed nearly evening for the last week o