Happiness is….

This has been a loooong time coming and so Happiness is……….??!!! 

This wall hanging started out as some lucky purchases I stumbled upon last year at my local charity store.  I had  seen some mini kits for each of the stitcheries and thought, I can’t live without these at $1 each, so of course, they came home with me to live in the K.A.R.T.S drawer, forever and ever, AMEN! 

But, I found my will, and started stitching them up, one by one, during the year.

and they were coming out pretty nicely, which spurred me on….

…and with a few design touches of my own……

…..and some hand quilting….

this li’l ol’ UFO is now finished!!!!!!

Yep……another UFO done….which makes number 5 for this year….a little slack, but it’s a finish, so……..that IS what Happiness is!!!!!

Sugary Hugs :o) xox

5th finish for 2013

I am so determined to get at least one UFO finished each month this year that I have tried to come up with a bit of a plan to get things done. Firstly the big UFO to be finished this year WILL be Val Laird's "Consider the Lilies" wall hanging. All the blocks were made up at the beginning of last year with one blocks hand sewing finished and the second started by the end of the year. Well I have now completed the second blocks embroidery and will commence on the third shortly. Stayed tuned.......

I love table runners and I have several table runners in various stages of completeness in little baggies these are the next thing to mark off the list. So with that in mind a grabbed on bag the other day which had enough in it for two long table runners (can't remember why). This is the first of those table runners  using a quilt as you go method, fabric is basic Grey's "Sultry" by Moda (mmmmm love Basic Grey) jelly Roll (left over from teapot cosies which are still to be completed..
 

The rest of the fabric in that bag I have now been sewn together Jelly roll race style,I will add vertical borders to make it wide enough then quilt and bind it and another table runner/UFO will be done.

But first I will complete 2 more UFO hand towels which have now been earmarked as a personal swap.

After that I have another table runner, that I have designed myself, to complete using an Authentic by Sweetwater charm pack.

Then I will only have one more table runner to complete (made with caring hearts) and that UFO box will be done and dusted for this year.  There are only 4 more boxes to work my way through (bags, cushions, kitchen projects, completed blocks)  as well as a few small baskets of UFO's that haven't been sorted yet and 5 quilt tops still to be quilted.


That's do-able isn't it.........

Out of the UFO pile, into a postage box

 I am very pleased to say that this UFO has been finished.

This quilt started it's life as  "Jelly Roll Race" quilt about 2 years ago and I loved it, I really did, but my then 8yo did not, so it sat.

and sat......

and sat .....

until I put my hand up to make an Aussie Hero Quilt for a Chaplain serving in Afghanistan.  Then inspiration struck, I could lengthen my Jelly Roll race and applique an Australia on top and that would be awesome.

 

So that is what I did.  I love it, I hope the chaplain does too when he receives it. It was squashed into its postage box and hugged goodbye at the post office yesterday.  Fast travels quilt. You are needed overseas.

 

This is a Sew its finished finish, an OPAM for March, an Aussie Hero Quilt and a great weight off my mind.

A little Finish

I had my Grandsons here this past week and I full intentions of having this little cloth book for them.

 But needless to say I did not want to leave them to go sew up this book while they were here. 

So I finished it yesterday and I'll just mail it along with some other things they were unable to fit into heir suitcases.

Batman to the Rescue

No 5.

Batman is one of my newer UFOs - started in July or August last year, for one of my Grandies.

Kai saw it sitting in my sewing room last week.  His comment - I like Batman.  So I think he will be pleased when I give it to him.

No 6
This was started last year also.  The paper pieced border was part of Fee's project from our Lets Get Stitched weekend in Tasmania.  At this link you can see the project she designed for us.  I used the idea of the frame to border the centre section of this table topper.

No 7.
Just a little finish.  I started this mug rug as a  gift for Christmas 2011, intending to put it with a green spot mug.  The green mugs had sold out, so I ended up with a different colour, and made another mug rug to match it.  I thought it was time to finish off this one, and have added it to my Birthday stash.