Motivation has returned!

 After a couple of weeks of feeling like a dishrag I have had an iron infusion and am full of energy again. Such a good feeling. I have finished the Scrappy Nine Patch blocks, they are waiting patiently to be finished. The squirrels then visited and I decided to sort a messy container on the desk that was full of two and a half inch squares, some sewn in pairs, some in fours and some in a row of ten. Not sure what I was thinking! They were a leaders and enders project for a while there. After some unsewing and sewing we have these blocks

I have tried to be random but random is so hard!! Also sometimes I flip blocks when I am sewing, so random kicks in then!! I have 18 of these blocks sewn now and the untidy heap on my desk is now a bit more under control. There is still a tin of two and a half inch squares, needing attention but that will happen one day. This year is all about finishing projects not creating new ones!

Speaking of which I got out the animal blocks I have had for a while and gave then sashings, then went to sew them together

No not quite right!! 😄 So some unsewing and sewing happened and now we have this

that is a bit better. Now I need to make up a backing and then will try some quilting. Love these animals.

This morning I finished the jigsaw Ingrid gave me for Christmas, think I might try a wasgij next.

This afternoon Anthology restarted after a break

Two blocks for this week.

I had better go and see to some dinner, don't want to be too late again!

Happy stitching.

 

Sometimes I wonder

 I pulled out a project to make a push to the finish the other day, counted the blocks I had made, and then panicked as I thought two were correct and the other 15 were wrong and I had to unpick them 😢. I moved them this way and that

I even turned them upside down to see where I had gone wrong. Later in the day I had another look and thought what if I matched up the four patches and duh, realised I just had them sitting the wrong way!! Boy did I feel silly! Anyway all is good and no unpicking is needed!!

The all the same way stack!

This is a kit I bought from Jude, I think it might be two years ago now! Jude and her fairy helper make up kits each year and sell to raise funds for breast cancer research, they come ready cut, all I have to do is sew! The is a Scrappy Nine Patch.

I have more four patches ready for their side blocks to be sewn on

This is todays job to be done, but it is muggy and hot and I am just not in the mood. Might have to go and get the fan to move some air around in the sewing room.

We have been forecast thunder storms the last day and a half which have not arrived but today there is some cloud building up out to the west

Hopefully we get some rain from this and it doesn't just scoot around us.

I have been doing a lot of reading

I finished this book a few days ago, was a good read

and am working my way through this one, the last in my bag of Michael Connelly books I bought at the Rotary/Lions book sale in November.

I am off to get the fan and to try and get sewing.

Happy stitching.

PS.

The weather has gone around us and is heading for Melbourne, I can see some rain falling over the bay and hear some faint rumbles of thunder. 

Zooming into 2022

 Yesterday Chooky has a zoom gathering, ladies from Aus, NZ, Canada, UK, the US, Germany and Norway sat and chatted and stitched together. People came and went throughout the day depending on their commitments. I had prepared some half inch hexies and managed to get quite a few done

I have to admit I appear to have an issue counting to six.....

One short when I came to sew them together! 😊

Never mind that can be quickly fixed.

Yesterday as it was a bit cooler hubby planted some new plants into the pots at the front door, fingers crossed they like living there!

Same same but different!

Today the lovely Jill dropped off a bag of her left over bits for me to stamp and sew into the cropped diamonds

Lots to play with here.

Between Christmas and New Year I wanted to do some sewing on the machine, it had been for a service so I wanted to see how it was working

I sewed together these two beautiful pieces of summery sunshine fabric the lovely Michelle sent me for my birthday, I think I am making a bag. One side is quilted, the other is yet to be done. So much for my no new projects until I finish something! I have two on the go already!!

The machine is running beautifully, no more pulling to the left and the thread cutter is working again, as is the sensor that tells me when the bobbin is nearly empty!

Happy stitching.