A finish.

The stitch a long for December is finished. A week before Christmas I came down with Strep throat, it was very bad and it took me to the doctor and a bag of medications to get me back to healthy again. With the high fever and medication I somewhere along the line jumped a day ahead. I was telling the family when it was going to be Christmas eve and Christmas day, also what meals was going to happen when. They looked at each other then looked at me. Saturday evening while we were playing a boardgame, they decided to let me know that I had my caledar all muddled up. We were one day ahead, they thought it was really funny! This oops has had a positive change and created some new traditions. All which they want to continue in the future.

A few gifts that arrived under the tree that is all crafty related, it will be keeping me busy for a bit.

The Serengeti Chatelaine also progressed a bit more. All the stitching with beads, speciality stitches and braids will happen last once all the basic cross stitches has been stitched. Part one is almost stitched.

This year a new stitch-along has been started, it is nine houses: The first one is the pumkin house, using DMC on antique white evenweave.

Last year was a lot of piecing quilts, this year it is back to applique quilts. Pulled out an old work in progress, Love Entwined. Leaves pinned, they were prepped a long time ago ready to be sewn on now. A leaf at a time. 2024 has started with a new chapter to write and the journey to navigate each new day. We get to choose how we write our story, we choose to do so with love and peace. The human voice is a powerful instrument and we do not use it enough for the good in our world. Be kind both to yourself and everyone around you, it is the fastest way we change the world to be a better place for each and everone of us. Happy New Year to each and everyone!

A collection of quilts for the year.

Wedding quilts this year.

A Wedding bargello wall hanging.

A quilt for my eldest sister.

Wedding quilt for a very special cousin.

Mystery quilt finished after working on it for many years.

A quilt that is still being quilted and one that is still to be quilted.

This quilt is basted, it needs to be quilted.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful time, filled with joyful laughter and happiness. Spending time with loved ones and friends, creating new memories. It is what we have in our hearts and what we send out into the world that is our most important message we have to give, we choose to give love and peace.

A few from a friend.

Diane decided to grow her Bargello wallhanging quilt into a large quilt, we worked out how much fabric she needed and this is the end result. It was longarm quilted by Sharron Leonard.

She has started another stitching project too.

A display at our local library.

A finish before Christmas.

The blue smock dress is finished and is on its way to a little girl for Christmas. Her Grandma and her both loves blue, their favourite colour.

The back and front of the dress. Recently this little girl became a big sister to a little sister.

The Soedidee advent stitch-a-long continue, have kept up for the most part. Missed stitching on three days.

The weather was beautiful on friday and we went for a walk in nature, the beavers are busy.

They have chopped all the trees, except for this one. We have noticed the water level where the weir is, has not dropped in a couple of months. They have built another dam down stream from the weir.

Where did the year go?

Hard to believe it is already December. The year has flown by, it has been and continue to be busy.

The smocking was completed and then the embroidery as well.

It is now done, ready to block and then to assemble the dress.

Smocking is not just for girls, boys too.

The pattern in the magazine was done in pink, this one if for a little girl who adore and love blue!

What else have been worked on? In the summer Soedidee announced a Christmas stitch-a-long. For each day starting December 1st a piece would be released to stitch until the 24th of December. This is the progress so far.

Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2021 is being handquilted at the moment.

All of the flying border and set in triangles next to this border has been quilted. Have now moved onto quilting the large blocks on point.

A little bit of progress.

Things have been very slow for a while. Some trees lost their leaves quickly, while others are taking their sweet time. In the spring, I slipped on a patch of mud and hurt my knee. It seemed okay and at the end of September it started to get really bad with me ending up at the doctors to try and figure out what is going on with it: A Bakers cyst.

As it is all activities are switched up, with lots of variety thrown into the mix. Stitching so far on the Serengeti.

Hand quilting is going at a slow pace too. Everything will be quilted in the ditch with this one.

Found Kate Selene, she produce her own yarn with speckles or flecks of colours. Her patterns are simple and easy to follow, this is her Kate poncho? The yarn is the leftover rainbow yarn from a little dress I knitted a few years back. The idea is that it keeps one's neck and shoulders warm. Hubby says it reminds him of Shrek!