Wow I finally stitched something

Christmas Eve saw me sew my one and only sewing project for November or December.

This "Keep Calm" cushion was a t-shirt purchased in the post Christmas sales 2013.

It came home from the shop, was cut out and put down for some reason or another.

Christmas Eve saw me stitch it & stuff it.

Not a great finish & not how I had expected it to look, but complete & comfy too.

My oh my, I have an April finish!!!!!

…and the worst thing is, I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and I just haven’t gotten around to posting about it!!!

This is a mystery quilt I made in an online forum from the Quilt Pattern Magazine, which I subscribe to….it’s A Winter Mystery Quilt, but even living in the tropical north of Australia, my mind reads ‘Christmas”……subliminal brainwashing perhaps????

Well, I started this last year with the intent on having it done for Christmas, but……………….  well, you know the rest?   It got to the part where you had to use the blocks to design your own pattern and well…….I just kept those little bitty blocks in their crisp plastic packets didn’t I????

I finally got up the nerve to tackle the designing process and here is the result….

Finally I get to show you a finish of my own!

Sugary hugs xox :O)

12 Little Finishes (finishes 5 - 16)

I started these tree ornaments last year but never got past cutting them out.  Tonight...just a few short minutes ago...I finished these 12 trees.  I had a hard time finding stars for on top that were large enough but I put a button underneath to make them look larger.  I'll still look for larger stars for the next dozen or so I make but it feels great to finish these.

Until next month....

Danette

A Christmas Finish

Here is my Christmas Tree Skirt finally finished. Heehee...Just in time for Chrissy this year.
I started this last year and unfortunately with the end of the year getting so busy I never got around to finish it for Chrissy 2012. So now after backing quilting, binding and adding some suffolk puffs & ribbon, I'm pleased to say it is complete.

Sorry about the lighting in the pic, it's very overcast here today.

My 2nd January Finish

Yes, I am excited.

I have finished my 2nd January Finish of my list.

YEAHHH!!!

 

This is my Christmas Table Cloth and I have blogged about it's story over HERE on my blog Outback Crafter.  

Thanks for this great blog to encourage me to finish things.  I am loving it.  Now off to bind another Aussie Hero Quilt, I wonder if it can be finished today for #3 for January???

My Christmas Sampler ...

 

….is finished…….finally!

A Leanne Beasley design I started……..a ‘few’ years ago???……..

…….there’s the proof!

Very Christmassy….and just in time!!!!  hee hee

 

Sew many hugs xox

It is becoming to look a lot like Christmas!

We had our first dust of snow this morning, last day of school. Sadly, it was all melted by lunch time but at least it was pretty this morning.

Although we put up our tree last week-end... before the tree skirt was finished, I am proud to say that  it is now finished and around the tree, I did the last stitch on the binding last night.

I made my skirt using blocks I made and received from the Christmas Scrappy Block Swap I took part in in August 2009! I know that was a looooong time ago... My blocks have been patiently waiting to be used since then. I only got them out about a week or two ago and decided that this was the year I was going to get them into a quilt, they were not going to wait yet another year until next Christmas.

This one is a real UFO when you think the blocks were pieced about 30 months ago. This is my 4th finish this year (and second in about 2 weeks) and I am hoping to have another one to report very shortly, only needs the binding now... Watch this space!

Celine

Advent Calendar ready - just on time

Well, I don't know how long an UFO has to be left alone to officially be considered a UFO but I feel this panel was belonging to my long UFO list. I bought it at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham In August to make an Advent Calendar for my daughter - Miss Strawberry Shortcake. I was very good and pieced the top in September, thinking that I would have it finished well on time.

And then because Advent Calendar are not put in use until December, it was left on the side for later. So it was only last week-end that I digged it out from its plastic bag as it had become a WIP (work in progress) to start quilting it. I completed the free motion quilting over 2 days and finally on Wednesday (30 November!) I was able to prepare and stitch the binding during the day to finish hand sewing it before going to bed.

All is well in the end, the Advent Calendar was ready on Thursday morning and full of chocolates on Thursday night when Miss Strawberry Shortcake returned home. Although she can't recognise the numbers yet, she has fully understood the concept and work as a great team with her brother to find their daily chocolates in their respective calendars! This is now my third UFO finished this year, will I be able to squeeze another one before Christmas? Watch this space!
Celine

Another Finished Quilt

Can't believe it!  2 quilts completed in two days!!  This has been the best little set of stitcheries to do.  I was lucky that I had lots of waiting times when I was in the process of stitching - the quilt itself was quite quick and easy to achieve.  All I have left to do is label it.  Hanging pocket is in - it's ready for Christmas.  I'd love to do another - maybe in greens or blues?

Christmas Hexies........ #16 done....

These were started to be ready for last Christmas!! 

Little stitcheries surrounded by Christmassy fabric....

and a couple of multicoloured tea-time ones for fun....

Some of these will be decorations - others will be coasters....

It feels so good to have another UFO completed... thanks Dawn and Wendy for the prompting.....

I keep my different projects in bags or boxes

..... nice when they are empty again...

(for the next UFO to fill!!)

G'day

Second finish

I think I better stop cleaning; you think?? lol
These pieces were all cut out when I found them
yesterday in my cupboard of the sewing room....so;
I just had to sit down at the serger and finish this table runner. It is a stained glass runner; Christmas...the pic is a bit dark here..

I have finished something!!!!!

Good morning ladies.  I have finally finished a sewing piece...this has been waiting to be quilted for ages!
It wasn't even on my list; forgot about it..a Christmas table runner was in a corner of my sewing room; hiding.lol......setting up a quilt for a lady today also. It wasn't on my list either; she just brought it to me yesterday.....perfect timing,eh!!

Here is the runner........I quilted it on the machine...
keeps me practicing some stippling....which I am not
great at either, but I find it fun for a change.....

Instant Gratificiation

One of the things I enjoy over the festive season is cross stitching a Christmas design. If it doesn't get finished before Christmas, it tends to sit for months before I do anything with it. I was beginning to waver on my resolution to work on my WIPs for the next few weeks, so decided a bit of operant conditioning (ie a bit of instant gratification finishing) was in order. I checked my WIPs for something small. I made A Star On Top by Blue Ribbon Designs into a needle case this afternoon. A first step towards forming a new finishing habit!

The rest of my list for 2011 is:

A Gardener’s Journal.
Halloween needlecase.
Holiday Morning Quilt.
Lap quilt (green bricks).
Orphan blocks (various).
Chinese coin purse tablecloth.
Sing, Choir Of Angels applique wall hanging.
Sing, Choir of Dark Angels applique wall hanging.
Skinny table runner.

It's not in any particular order, as I have the attention span of a lobotomised amoeba. I do have my eye on the tablecloth next, closely followed by the green lap quilt. A Gardener's Journal I intend to chip away at over the year.