Friday night with friends

Last night I joined Cheryl and friends for a virtual sew in. It's been a long time since I've joined up and I've decided I need to get my priorities in order as I always enjoy looking at what everyone else is up to!

I cranked up the fire and decided to put on some Netflix with my daughter. Instead of searching for something new, we decided to watch the Gilmore Girls from the very start. No-one else was home so we belted out Carol King's 'Where you lead' at the beginning of each episode and laughed ourselves silly.

I also managed to put together a couple of my little spools. These are pretty therapeutic (some might say slow!).

That's it for last night. Thanks Cheryl for hosting. It's good to be back!

Chookshed birthday fun!

I've had a great weekend of stitiching - joining Chooky and friends for her birthday celebrations.

I started on Friday night, hand stitching in front of the fire with friends.

 This "Little Spools" project made an appearance while I was at the Scrub Stitchin' Retreat in Apil. I was lucky to be sitting with the creator/designer Carol Roberts of Cherry Pie Designs, who gave me lots of little hints. I've managed to put a few together and love sitting down with this 'no thinking' project at the end of a busy day. I was watching a pretty intense film with my daughter on
Saturday night, so I stuck to tracing and cutting in preparation for next time!

I put a quilt top together a couple of weeks ago, using flannels for a snugly, winter quilt. I'm making it for a friend who has recently moved from temperate Port Macquarie to the very chilly Canberra.!

On Saturday I prepared the quilt for quilting, and today I donned the white gloves and got to work. This is my least liked part of making a quilt so I set myself the goal of finishing the quilting and binding by the end of the weekend.

I did it!!!!

So happy to have finished - I'll embroider a message and then send it off  in the post. Now I can get back to my first love...hand stitching!!!!

Thanks Chooky, for the virtual birthday party. The photos look great. I know you girls would have laughed yourselves silly!!!