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

FNSI Results

Well, this week started out like last year.....where did it go????
Started Monday with work.....Tuesday I had to go and visit a new little great-neice...…

Welcome little Madelyn Rose to the world...here she is...24 hours old...isn't she gorgeous?

Such bright eyes, and a gorgeous shock of dark brown hair.....looks like she's been here before, doesn't it?  She was my Tuesday distraction!  Wednesday I had to run errands around town and Thursday, back to work again.  This afternoon I'm headed to the big smoke (Townsville) for a check up for Mr B's eye operation and seeing if they can do his other one.   He had a cataract removed and a lens inserted in his eye.....no pain whatsoever and it's been such an easy recovery for him, but I've had to play nurse with drops every day, 4 times a day and he's not allowed to do anything except rest. (When I die, I'm coming back as Mr B!)

Last Friday we had our first FNSI for the year and I promised I'd get organised with prizes and draws.  Before I show you, here is what I got up to.....

I was reorganising my sewing space to fit in my new toy......

never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd every own one but I saved and saved and saved and here she is, my sweety.

I added table risers to the legs of my cutting table so I could fit my shelves underneath and now it's at a more user-friendly height so that made me even more happy!  As you can tell though, I haven't had a chance to try her out but as Monday IS a public holiday, I might just have to give her a spin! 

I chose fabrics for my 'Bloom Sew a Long" with Cheryll .  We're following Lori Holt's original sew a long plan from 2016.....it's never too late and keeping true to form, I've picked my fabrics and got my templates but I haven't started yet (I WAS distracted a bit!) .   

Then we'll link up on Cheryll's blog the second and third Saturdays of the month sharing our progress.    I'll do catch up over the weekend!

I did get a little hand stitching done though.

I finished off the embroidery on this block, now to add the pieced blocks and then I'm up to the last one....getting close to finished. 

Now to the important part....our winners!  We had lots of fun with our Friday Night Virtual Stitchers and lots of  'work' was done.  You can see it all HERE.

I had Mr Linky randomly choose winners for November, December and January and here's how it went....

November winner 1:    Karen's Korner

November winner 2:  Rike@flickchensquilt

December winner :    Cheryll from Gone Stitchin'

January winner:         Nancy from Joy for Grace

  

Congratulations to all you wonderful ladies....thanks for joining in this month and beginning this year off with a bang! Send me your postal details and I'll get a little something off to you pronto.

Remember, lock the third Friday night of each month in for your FNSI fix.  You never know when your name will be drawn as a winner.  Regardless, we're all winners as we have so much fun stitching virtually with so many wonderful stitchers from around the globe...and we get more of our projects done!  Winner, winner!

xox Sugary hugs :o)