Harrogate!!!!

We are all very excited for our little outing on Sunday, We are all of to Harrogate knitting and stitching show! This will be my first show and I am really looking forward to everything!!!! :)
and hopefully there will loads of fab photos :)

Well today our new friend Emma joined us again :) Which was lovely! She brought along a piece she had already made, which looked stunning (sorry forgot to take a pic!!) she also brought along her latest project,

 

this is going to look fantastic when its finished :)

 

 

 Well Wendy has been busy, like normal!

We have a fabulous Christmas panel!!  Ta Dar!!!!

 

 

A beautiful Christmas stocking, Ta Dar!!

This fantastic little dolly with dress, shoes and even some long knickers!!!!

Ta Dar!!!!

 

 

and another stunning Christmas panel!!!!

 

 

and at the moment! Wendy is working on this lovely Christmas table runner!!

 

Annie Pie has been working on her au tumble Bargello quilt, with a lovely boarder on.

 

she also has time to make this fantastic doggy pin cushion!!!

 

 

Cathy added yet another quilt to the Linus pile! she just needs to cut her crusts off

and pop her binding on :)

 

 

Maggie has been working on her 'Elsa' dress, I really cant wait to see this finished!!!

 

 

Irene brought along this beautiful label, which she is colouring in with

special water resistant crayons.

 

 Margaret, after losing her first attempt at doing this wall hanging,

she is having a second go cause she loves it so much!!

And its looking fantastic :)

 

 

Annette is back on her lap quilt, at the moment she is adding her binding

:)

 

That's it for another week

See you soon xx

 

Busy Busy

Well today we were super busy, and the hall was full of lovely ladies and sewing machines!!

We also had a visitor who is interested in joining our little group, She just popped in, said hello to everyone and had a look what everyone was doing, and hopefully she will be able to join us very soon. So if you read the blog and are interested in joining, that's all you have to do!!!

We also had another visitor, A very lovely lady came to visit us, Mrs Jean Walklett, and she has donated to us a fantastic a Singer Futura Sewing Machine, with the instructions, bobbins and a fancy embroidery stich on, aren't we lucky!!! and a big thank you from everyone for your generosity  :)

Jenny has been working on this fantastic quilt for her grandson,

she sandwiched it and pinned it all ready for quilting!!

 

Tar Dar!!!!! Annette has finished her fantastic heart quilt, and has done a

lovely job of quilting it!!

 

Jenny has also finished her beautiful table runner Ta Dar!!!!

 



Maggie has cut out her pieces for her frozen dresses

'Anna'

 

And Elsa! cant wait to see these finished!!!

 

Cathy has been working really hard on her Bargelo Quilt, and has started

to add her boarders :) well done cathy its looking fantastic!!

 



 

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Lynda has been making these super mini IPad bags, to hold her IPad

very usefully when you are out and about!!

 

 

My younger daughter and I, have been working on this present

for her teacher for Christmas

 

I hope she like it :)

 

Also I was working on my table runner by adding triangle edges :)

 

There were lots of photos that I didn't take because I was so busy, so sorry to all the people who haven't got there fantastic projects on here.

 

That's it for another week

see you soon

xxx

Cake!!!!!!!

We had another lovely visitor today, and it was even more brilliant because they brought cake, and it was fantastic!!!!!! Thank you!!!

Well back to sewing,

 

Annette was working on her fabulous kaleidoscope quilt, she went on a workshop

with our dear friend Angie, at her quilt shop,   

Wendy is working on these very funky blocks she is just having a play at the moment,

and has got a plan to use some beautiful Christmas fabric to

make a table runner :)

 

Chris is also making a table runner, using these beautiful split pin wheels,

I cant wait to see this next week!

 



 

Maggie has brought these wonderful patterns with her in a hope

to make Anna's green party dress, really really can't wait

 to see this finished!!  

 

This is how far Cathy has got with her beautiful bargello

quilt, its really coming on fabulous, well done to Cathy :)

 



 

Wendy has done wonderful things to her beautiful felting, adding beads

and lots of embroidery and I think you will agree it

looks stunning!!!!!! Ta Dar!! 

 

 

and me, well I have been working on my little Christmas

table runner

 

that's it for today, see you soon

xx

HONEY!

Our lovely egg lady Gilly, will not only be bringing her fantastic free range eggs next week,
but also some of her brilliant,  Award winning, Organic Honey!! She is also trying to promote the charity APIARY which encourages people to keep bees.

Felt and Cake :)

Well this Wednesday the fabulous Jo Shaw paid us a visit, with a fantastic bag of goodies to share with us :)

 This is a selection of the fantastic art work done by Jo using felt  

 

 

This is a close up of my favourite piece :) Stunning!!!!!!!

 

So todays workshop is felting, lets see how we got on,

(these photos were before the water and soap was added)

 

 

This is Beryl's fantastic 'sunrise' 

 

Annette's lovely sheep 

Irene's beautiful topiary

 

A beautiful flower by Merilla

 

Wendy's fantastic 'under the sea'

Kate wanted to experiment with circles :)

 



 

Lynda's beautiful robin

 

 

and me, I did purple flowers.

 

We then added hot water, soap and lots of elbow grease :)

and Ta Dar!!!!

 

So from the top right there is, Me, Wendy, Maggie, Merilla, Beryl,

Irene, Kate, Annette and Lynda in the middle :)

 

 

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the work shop and sends Jo a great big "THANK YOU!" 

We enjoyed it that much, we have booked another felt work shop in February,

to make a seamless felt bag :) Can't wait!!

 

Jo also brought with her 3 lovely cakes :) YUMM!! and Thanks again,

 

 

Well the other ladies, who didn't felt were also very busy, lets see how they did;

 

Cathy is adding more strips to her fantastic Bargello Quilt, so the main red

diamond is complete :)

 

 

Ta Dar!!! Chris has finished her beautiful wall hanging :)

 

 After felting, Lynda was cutting fabric to make her curtains!!

 

Kate found a little pack in a magazine, to keep her busy :)

 

 

and Maggie had to make some alterations on the sleeves on her new jacket!!

 

Well it was a busy day today but we all had a fantastic time.

 

That's it for this week, see you soon

xxx

 

 

 P.S I did get a home felting kit, read on to see how we did,

 

More Felting!!!

In the fantastic workshop we had on Wednesday, Jo was selling kits so you could felt at home,. My daughter is art mad! So I thought we would give it a go, so this is how we got on,

So first she drew her felt picture, covered it with the netting, then added the soapy water :)

 Then we used the bag to rub and create friction and bubbles 

 

 

and started rubbing!!!!!!!!

 

 

and more rubbing!!!!!!!!!

 

then having dipped it in the hot and cold water, we have to roll!

 

 

ROLL, ROLL, ROLL lots of times!

 

Then Ta Dar!!

 

 

Does it remind you of any ones?

 

Well we both really enjoyed it, and cant wait to do it again!!