October FNSI....can you believe it?

 Wow this calendar's on fast forward, I'm sure!

Probably because I've moved back home from living at Mum-in-law's house for the past 5 months and started a new job. Mum's doing well despite having a 'dicky knee' and I still pop around every couple of days to take her bins out, do her shopping and take her to appointments.  

 So sewing's taken a back seat, although I do try to do a little every day....for my sanity and everyone else's safety!!!  

The internet is playing nice this month so I'll post a couple of pictures to show you what I've been up to!

I've been catching up on some more of my Little Box of Creativity Kits.  I absolutely adore these kits.  If you don't know about them, pop on over to our beautiful sponsor's shop HERE and you can sign up for them too!

I also managed to squeeze in a FMQ class in Townsville with Bev McClune.  I can't recommend her highly enough...Her teaching style is just so easy, and she teaches to your level of experience.   I even got to play on a Sweet Sixteen so I feel much more confident using mine now! 

And I always manage to fit in a chat with my little man!!!!   Can you believe he'll be two next month???

Now to the nitty gritty......

It's Friday Night Sew In this Friday so you can sign up below or on our Facebook Group page.  If you're not a member yet just pop over and ask to join.... it's so easy, and you get to see what everyone's doing on Friday night as they're doing it!   It's the best 'stay at home' party ever!!!

Our winner from last month will be very happy with their $30 voucher from Kitty Rose Cottage I'm sure!   Tilda's 'Hibernation' range is now out so maybe you could put your winnings towards that? 

It's just adorable with it's little sleepy squirrels and fall inspired colour palette!!!!

Well the Wheel has spoken and our lucky winner for September is:........

Congratulations Karen...if you could swing me a PM with your email address, I'll pass it on to Dawn to get your prize to you!   

I"m about to go off to work so good luck and fingers crossed for Friday!

Big sugary hugs

Better get my groove on.....FNSI Sign ups

 So sorry for the late sign ups! 

I've been sick with a sinus infection that spread to my throat and ears and have been feeling very lethargic.  I'm ok though but have been sleeping more than normal.  Thanks to Catherine  and Maria for the heads up.....so wonderful that have friends who remind you when your head's all clogged up with boogers!  It's definitely not covid though...I've tested and my crusty nose attests to it!

I worked on a new quilt panel last weekend for my gorgeous lil grandson who, would you believe, is 8 months old already!!!  Look at those toothy-pegs!   Mr B had bought the panel on his way back from a work trip away....he actually stopped into a little quilt shop in Childers and bought it for me to make up for our boy!  I didn't add much....just free motion quilted it and added a binding.  I sent it a long with a 'resoftable' Thomas the Tank Engine Toy.....it's made entirely of recycled soft drink bottles...but soft and cuddly.....very clever.   Ryker loves trains so he took to it like a duck to water and making the quilt with double wadding, I think that it's going to get a lot of use too this winter!  

Lots more to show you but for now I'll put up sign ons as I know we're all chomping at the bit to begin!  Remember you can sign on here or just connect through the facebook FNSI group...either way you'll go into the draw to win a prize from our lovely sponsor, Kitty Rose Cottage.     I have a few to draw and will do that on Monday so I'll post winners then.  In the meantime, pop on over and have a look at the beauties in the shop.   I've ordered my Little Box of Magical Christmas and the Walton Garden BOM is calling my name!

Looking forward to stitching along with you tonight and fingers crossed for your name to be drawn! 

Big sugary hugs xox :o)

FNSI...take two...aaaaachooo!

Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes after my 'crumble in a heap' moment last night.    I really was feeling like my plug had been pulled out.  I think caring for a sick son, supporting a newly unemployed husband and trying to keep up the daily routines just weakened my resolve enough for me to have to give in.

I must say though, there is nothing like a good sleep to rejuvenate and restart the batteries.  I'm feeling a lot better this morning and 'almost' ready to take on the world!  However if I'm honest with myself, I'm probably still only running on 70 percent, so I'm prepared to take it a bit easier today.

FNSI......seems the viral thing flowed through the group virtually too....poor Lin is not well and couldn't get to post her FNSI this month.....wishing you a speedy recovery Lin.  Why not pop over and visit her....nothing like a group hug to make anyone feel instantly better!  (I haven't had the chance to visit anyone much either so I hope everyone else is well.)

I did try to upload some photos on Saturday, when I felt reasonably ok, but my photo editing program didn't want to play nicely so I couldn't show you anything.  So here we go.....

I started with some free motion quilting.....one of those finishes I've promised myself I'll get around to  'one day'.  A deadline approaches so it seemed as good a time as any. (nothing like working under pressure!)

I can only show you the back though.....a secret for now.....but not for long! *wink*

A finish was also in the air.......

Yep, it's done....now just to be professionally framed......but this will have to wait for now.  So proud of this one.

I finished off my Friday night by preparing some papers for hexi making.  Nice and easy and resourceful too as I use all the little subscription cards that come with the American quilting magazines....they just seem to be the perfect weight.

I love my Fiskars 1 inch hexi punch.  Makes life so much easier (and quicker too)... and I know my hexis will all be the same.  Do you have a special trick for making your hexi papers?

Now you've seen mine, I must go and see yours......you can too, just pop back to the links on this page.

We had 37 lovely stitchers on Friday night at our virtual gathering.  Mr RNG had fun picking a number to win this lovely prize.....

I wonder who it will be........here we go..... roll the dice....(well the RNG anyway!) ......

CONGRATULATIONS TO.................

DRESDEN QUILTER

and thank you to everyone who joined in this month.  You can visit them all HERE.   The March FNSI will be on the 17th so lock it in now, I'm sure I can find a great St Patrick's Day prize!

xox Sugary hugs :o)

My Patch

This week has been a busy one in my patch, racing Nick around as his car needed repairing (yes, the new one!) .  Seems someone took a liking to it and wanted to get in....problem was the door was locked, so they tried to pry it open (in a very strange way)!

Six days old and it was off  to the smash repairers!  But he now has it back, as good as new and he's as happy as larry, although $600 out of pocket isn't much fun!

Hubby moved back home on Australia Day after finishing up his job. Long story but we spent two days moving stuff off the quarters on the property back to our house, and boy, did he accumulate some stuff after 13 months!  The house was bedlam!  I've spent a few days culling and sorting....the tuppaware cupboard is now thinned out and tidy, as is the pantry.  Slowed up my decluttering by a week or so, but it's still getting there, and I feel like I'm accomplishing 'something' anyway.  (and I'm getting used to having someone else in the house again, but I'm loving it.)

I've been preparing for our Let's Get Stitched retreat in Adelaide this March.  One of the items we need to make as a swap gift is one of Fee's Stitching Keepers.  The theme this year is Christmas, so I had some fun with FMQ and played a while....

Now to fill it with a few Christmas goodies and then it will be wrapped for some lucky person.  I hope they like it!

During my evenings, watching Married at First Sight (I know....I'm a sucker for this romance-with-a-twist reality program!), I've been catching up on this cross stitch.   It had been going gung-ho....... until I found I'd counted incorrectly (too many distractions maybe?) and although the stitches were ok, they didn't match up soooooooo, lots of backward un-cross stitch and starting again for FNWF this week.  

Will you be joining Cheryll and the girls for FNWF this week too?

 Sign up with me...it's always fun.  I'll be restitching this l'il birdie and hopefully getting some more done.  I have Friday off, so I plan to start E-A-R-L-Y with the help of a few good movies I've been meaning to catch up on.

What's been happening in your patch?

xox Sugary hugs :o)

FNSI Winner

I did get a lot done on Friday Night (well, we know how my Friday nights extend into Saturday and Sunday!)……I’m sorry I didn’t post before now….but I was finishing off a new design and writing the pattern…..so at 1am this morning, I was packing it away into a postpak ready for sending to a magazine for inclusion later in the year. So all I can show you are sneakies! (is that even a word??) I even managed to consume a ‘small’ bowl of  these delights…. with a warm cocoa, of course…..you can never have too much chocolate! We had stitchy people all over the globe altogether on Friday night stitching away, and from those, Mr RNG decided he’d draw number….     as the winner of this lovely sewing tool keeper kit….   So a BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO MELODY in Melbourne who just happened to be making lots of hexies on Friday night like me!  I wonder how many more of us have caught the hexi bug on Friday night? I’ve yet to visit everyone from FNSI to see, but I will this week…..if you’d still like to pop over and visit everyone and see what they got up to you can….just click on the links HERE Until tomorrow Sugary hugs xox  :o)

FNSI Winner

I did get a lot done on Friday Night (well, we know how my Friday nights extend into Saturday and Sunday!)……I’m sorry I didn’t post before now….but I was finishing off a new design and writing the pattern…..so at 1am this morning, I was packing it away into a postpak ready for sending to a magazine for inclusion later in the year.

So all I can show you are sneakies! (is that even a word??)

I even managed to consume a ‘small’ bowl of  these delights….

with a warm cocoa, of course…..you can never have too much chocolate!

We had stitchy people all over the globe altogether on Friday night stitching away, and from those, Mr RNG decided he’d draw number….

    as the winner of this lovely sewing tool keeper kit….

 

So a BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO MELODY in Melbourne who just happened to be making lots of hexies on Friday night like me!  I wonder how many more of us have caught the hexi bug on Friday night?

I’ve yet to visit everyone from FNSI to see, but I will this week…..if you’d still like to pop over and visit everyone and see what they got up to you can….just click on the links HERE

Until tomorrow

Sugary hugs xox  :o)