Hello everyone – welcome to another damp weekend in Yorkshire š
This weekend I do have some outdoor activities planned, a little planting of the new things I bought while out with Sharon garden centre visiting yesterday and a walk with Ted, so am hoping for some bright spells to do those.
I wanted to share with you the first of my lovely Jenny of Elefantz stitchery patterns. I have just had my first monthly Stitchery Club PDF e-mailed to me and there are some gorgeous Christmas designs which I have started on as ornaments for family.
This earlier design is one of my absolute favourites and will be stitching it again in different colours to frame for my craft room as the sentiment is so good as well as the design being very pretty.
I am not sure where I got the tape measure charm from but the cute clock one is part of a set that Kerry gave me for my birthday.
The fabricĀ came from the Barrington Patchwork shop that weĀ found as part of our National Trust visiting holiday in early June, I knew it would come in handy for stitching related gifts!
I am intending it to be for carrying English Paper Piecing templates and thisĀ is going to be added to my Christmas gift pile.
It is a really easy and pleasurable design to stitch and am very pleased with my end result. The binding could be neater and I have attached it to the two sides differently but it is all about learning from experience!
I am also counting this as Project Number 1 on the Sewing Bucket List – a project for your sewing space, ok it’s not for me but I think it still counts!
I am very behind with projects due to the still poorly wrist, it is officially tendonitis and I have to rest as much as possible so will be extending the list into 2016.
This weekend’s crafting activities are to cut out and sew up the ,’toile’ for Amanda’s wedding jacket. On the advice of Karen from, ‘Did You Make That?‘, I am making a mock-up of the jacket from an old sheet to get the sizing right before cutting into the Ā£30 a metre silk brocade!
Will give me a chance to play with my new machine which makes me very happy!
Hope that you have nice things planned as well. Thanks for visiting.
Stitches of Time 
Hand quilting planned for me. Can’t get my knitting mojo on, so decided to go for a bit of EPP for a change instead. For some reason I can’t get away from the influence of hexagons … will keep you posted on progress, but expect SLOW.
Delightful – and it looks very useful too!
It looks lovely, I’ll be spending this afternoon teaching handsewing to a complete novice and later, planning my projects for the bank holiday weekend.