Cuteness overload!

I spent a couple of afternoons with Finn last week

we put his pool out on the front deck and played with a little bit of water - Not nuf Ga Ga I was told!!

"Cheese!"

I bought this T shirt a while ago, online, it was supposed to be a cotton linen mix, but is super shiny and slippery and was too tight around the bum! So it has had the chop and now is a bag!

I love the frog and wanted to keep it, so now I have a bag for the cross stitch project.

Next is #10 for the Chookshed Stitchery Challenge, I have moved a project around to fit in with retreat.

I have been wrangling applique pieces, tracing cutting and ironing

A few to be cut out here!!

After a few evenings they are all cut out, now to get the backing ready

Marked out and ready to iron on all the pieces

Done, after an afternoons placing and moving and placing again.

Yesterday I added the borders

This project is called Australian Flora Mandala, Wattle Brush and is designed by Sonya Else.

I bought the kit years ago and as Sonya is coming to talk to the Guild in March I thought I have better get my act together and get it made! 

I am planning to sandwich it and then attach all the leaves and wattle flowers with free motion and that will be part of the quilting. That is the plan anyway!! 😀  I am on retreat next week so will be the perfect time to get a start on it. I am not sure if it will be done this month as I am off the NZ to support Jenny straight after the retreat.

Poor Jens thought she was going to have a knee replacement in Feb but was having terrible pain in her hip, the Dr. said we will do that one first so it was done at the end of Jan, all happened fast for her.

 I have been stitching away in the evenings and was very excited to start on the first branch of my Temperature Tree, I have made mistakes along the way but have unpicked and continued on, I have just realised I have left 4 stitches on the branch with stitches one way 😯 I will fix that soon.

OK I am off now to continue stitching, fix my mistake and hopefully continue without problems.

Have a happy rest of the week and happy stitching.