FREE Friends BOF - Block 2: Happiness is live and it’s countdown to FNSI

Yep, it’s time!

Block 2 is ready for you to download.    You can get your free copy from my Craftsy store, where you’ll also find Block 1, and lots of my other patterns.  I just love this one…..

It just about sums it up for me….Friends just complete me….they bring such joy and happiness to my life, filling it to the brim….it always feels like sunshine when my friends are around me…or just knowing they’re in my heart gives me strength, just like the flower, growing stronger each day because the sunlight shines upon it……do you feel the same way too?

Head on over and print off your copy so we can all stitch together in our monthly, worldwide friendship sew-in and have a ‘happiness overload’ night ……. have you signed up yet?  You can do that HERE if you haven’t had the chance yet.  You know you want to, and I’ve even made it easy for you with something ready to stitch! (or you could be like me and choose something from the UFO pile?)

 

See you tonight.

xox Sugary hugs with happiness galore :o)

Block 1: Friends–The first block in my new FREE B.O.F. Stitchalong

….and I think you’re going to love it as much as I do.

You can print your pattern off from my Craftsy store, and every fortnightly Friday until 7th August, where you can collect another block to stitch and complete your 16 1/2 inch wall hanging.

Each block is just 4 inches square, so small enough to do in an evening or two.  Great for this long Easter weekend.

Share your progress on our Facebook page so we can  encourage each other along the way.

Can’t wait to see what fabrics you choose!

Dont forget to share the love with the BOF button you can add to your sidebar. (don’t forget to link it back to Sugarlane!)

A very happy and Blessed Easter to you all and, as always …..

xox  big sugary hugs my gorgeous friends :o)

 

Watch out for new BOM starting soon

I know I said I'd be starting my new BOM this week, (yesterday, actually!) but you know how that thing called 'life' happens? 

Yep... It's hit with a vengeance this past month and I'm only halfway finished so here's a preview of what's coming up....

All I can say is 'WATCH THIS SPACE'..... It won't be long and I'll be ready to share it with you all.

 

Xox Sugary hugs :o)

  

 

Put a little ‘Joy’ in your heart – Block 6: Let’s start Christmas SAL

Let’s do a little recap…….

We started this stitch-a-long on Thursday 28th August 2014 where I released one Christmas stitchery block HERE in my Craftsy shop for you to nab and stitch along with me, and then, each following Thursday through to today, I released another.

Can you believe we’re up to the last one, number six, already?  It’s flown by so quickly….a bit like this year has, hasn’t it?  Which is why you don’t want to be caught short, leaving your Christmas planning till……..later???   I know I’m usually the one to do that, and before I know it, it’s Christmas Eve and I’m madly rushing around trying to organise things.

This year I want there to be Joy throughout the Christmas preparations with not a tear in the house, which is why I’ve left this wonderful Christmas word till last, as my constant reminder! 

Could you believe, over on the Facebook Group page (yes, we have a group page for the Let’s Start Christmas stitchers!), a few of the girls were trying to guess this week’s word….and one lucky Miss did!!!   Good on you Teresa, you clever little thing you!  If I’d thought about it earlier, I would have suggested everyone had a go and offered a prize for the winner/s!  Never mind, we all now know that Teresa is our clever clogs of the week! Yaaaaay.

So, pop on over and grab your copy of this week’s block - ‘Joy’.  For only $2USD, it’s a bargain!

Next week, on the 9th October, a pattern for a Christmas table runner featuring all 6 stitcheries (and a little extra stitchery freebie) will be available FREE for all those people who have bought all 6 blocks.  I’ll be emailing it out to you on the 9th. 

But don’t worry if you haven’t purchased yours yet.  You’ll still be able to buy all six patterns until the 8th and still qualify for the free pattern with extra stitcheries……OR…….. I’ll have the entire pattern with all 6 blocks to purchase , with the additional stitcheries, for $14.95USD.  It’s up to you!

Just think what quick gifts you could make using any or all of these sweet blocks.

Now, I best go and put the finishing touches to the table runner!  I really want there to be Christmas Joy in our house this year!

xox Sugary hugs :o)

Release of Block 2: “Love” –Let’s Start Christmas SAL

It’s been a week since the start of our stitch-a-long and there’s been such wonderful feedback…..thank you all so much….you really are good for my ego!!  But believe me, my feet are still planted firmly on the ground!

I know you’ve been waiting, ever so patiently, so now to release……

BLOCK 2: Love

Pop on over to Craftsy to get your copy, and if you haven’t got the first block yet, you can grab it there too. 

And remember to pop on over to our Facebook page and see what others have been up to.  While we’re at it, don’t forget to add the ‘Let’s Start Christmas SAL’ button to your sidebar to share the Christmas Love.

 I really must figure out how to write code for these buttons, but for the meantime, you can just copy and paste to your ‘pictures’ folder and then upload to your sidebar on Blogger.

Remember tomorrow night is Friday Night With Friends over at Cheryll’s so pop on over and sign up for a virtual stitching frenzy! 

Not sure if I’ll make it as hubby’s surgery is at 2 tomorrow afternoon but I’ll be taking some stitching with me, just in case…..and I’ll be stitching later on in the evening when we finally get home, because I don’t think we’ll be home too early with the hospital over an hour away.

Looking forward to seeing your  Love blocks.

Sugary hugs xox :o)

Progress towards Bethlehem

The centre top is done!!!!   Phew…….the maths worked out!!!! and the quick unpicker GOT a workout!!! But it’s done…. now for the borders…….. as the sun was setting last night….. the mathematical brain got another workout…… so in the next couple of days………. expect some more progress!!!! Sugary hugs xox :o)

Progress towards Bethlehem

The centre top is done!!!!   Phew…….the maths worked out!!!! and the quick unpicker GOT a workout!!! But it’s done….

now for the borders……..

as the sun was setting last night…..

the mathematical brain got another workout……

so in the next couple of days……….

expect some more progress!!!!

Sugary hugs xox :o)

I have a confession to make..

Yes……I must admit…….I had all the plans and intention in the world in taking part in FNSI last night…….and hubby decided he’d take me out to dinner instead!   Who am I to say no??  We rarely get out these days, and later, as I was telling him I was supposed to be hosting FNSI, he apologised profusely and said I should have told him…….in the middle of eye fillet steak with scallop and prawn topper in a creamy garlicky seafood sauce???…..I don’t think so!!!!    So once he was convinced you ladies could manage without me, we went for dessert at another cute little restaurant where we had chocolate lava puddings….mm mmmmmmm!!!!   I never did get the chance to take a photo to share with you  *burp*…..sorreeeeee!!!!!!    Needless to say, it was just D-I-V-I-N-E!!!!! Well, I thought I would do some catch up when I got home and promptly sat in my chair to stitch (at least!), got three stitches done and dropped off to sleep……must have something to do with a contented belly??!! SO, instead I worked on it being Friday night somewhere in the world today and stitched to my heart’s content all day!!!!  My plans were to work on putting together my Homespun “Long Time Ago In Bethlehem” SAL and that’s what I did…. I was thinking I might frame each block in a darker fabric before I sash so today it was cutting blocks to size and framing….. A nice chocolate brown Moda Grunge Basics did the trick…..and I’ll follow up with the sashing I showed you yesterday….it will turn out slightly bigger but that’s ok…..some modifications will make it more personal don’t you think?  In fact, the more I look at that Innkeeper, the more he reminds me of hubby!!!!! LOL Maybe I’ve personalised it a little tooooo much??? hee hee. I’m off to see what others did in their timezones for FNSI…..why don’t you join me??? sugary hugs :o) xox

I have a confession to make..

Yes……I must admit…….I had all the plans and intention in the world in taking part in FNSI last night…….and hubby decided he’d take me out to dinner instead!  

Who am I to say no??  We rarely get out these days, and later, as I was telling him I was supposed to be hosting FNSI, he apologised profusely and said I should have told him…….in the middle of eye fillet steak with scallop and prawn topper in a creamy garlicky seafood sauce???…..I don’t think so!!!!    So once he was convinced you ladies could manage without me, we went for dessert at another cute little restaurant where we had chocolate lava puddings….mm mmmmmmm!!!!   I never did get the chance to take a photo to share with you  *burp*…..sorreeeeee!!!!!!    Needless to say, it was just D-I-V-I-N-E!!!!!

Well, I thought I would do some catch up when I got home and promptly sat in my chair to stitch (at least!), got three stitches done and dropped off to sleep……must have something to do with a contented belly??!!

SO, instead I worked on it being Friday night somewhere in the world today and stitched to my heart’s content all day!!!!  My plans were to work on putting together my Homespun “Long Time Ago In Bethlehem” SAL and that’s what I did….

I was thinking I might frame each block in a darker fabric before I sash so today it was cutting blocks to size and framing…..

A nice chocolate brown Moda Grunge Basics did the trick…..and I’ll follow up with the sashing I showed you yesterday….it will turn out slightly bigger but that’s ok…..some modifications will make it more personal don’t you think?  In fact, the more I look at that Innkeeper, the more he reminds me of hubby!!!!! LOL Maybe I’ve personalised it a little tooooo much??? hee hee.

I’m off to see what others did in their timezones for FNSI…..why don’t you join me???

sugary hugs :o) xox

It’s a catch-up post

Wow…it seems like it’s been forever since I’ve posted..I was going to do a post while I was on the Gold Coast but for 3 of the 5 days we were there, my mobile broadband was playing up  and on the other days I was measuring eye drops and medicines and visiting family and bloggy friends (Hi Joy and Marilyn!!!)  Time goes soooo fast when you’re with special people! Thank you sooo much to those who have been sending good wishes and prayers for DS’s eye operation….it was much easier than either of us expected…the explanation we were given of the cornea being scraped back, whilst still awake but locally anaesthetised, scared us more than you can imagine….I was like the pacing father outside of the birthing suite…except I was the pacing mother outside of the surgery!   I must have asked a dozen times if DS had asked for me….I think they took pity on me and let me sit in and watch…..DS was soooo calm, I couldn’t believe it!  It wasn’t until we arrived at my brother’s house at the Gold Coast that the local anaesthetic wore off….that was one rough night! A few days of a closed and weepy eye then we were back for review. But there was a bit of spoiling in between, with a favourite lunch on the agenda….. …the biggest kebab you have ever seen!!!!…..but even that wasn’t enjoyed totally as the sunlight caused all sorts of havoc!  All went well though, apparently…now just a blurry eye for up to two months when we return to Brisbane for another check-up. So I made sure I had plenty to go on with whilst I was there….. stitching the February block for our SIF finishers….. …finishing the stitcheries for month 2 of Fee’s framed hexagon Club …and catching up on block 10 of the Long Time Ago in Bethlehem stitch-a-long in Homespun…… before I allowed myself to be led astray by these two rascally blogging buddies….. We must have looked like middle-aged techno-heads with our texting and sending photos left, right and centre….after all, we didn’t want our bloggy friend Teresa, to miss out.  She would have been there too but she had eye surgery on the same day, at the same surgery, by the same doctor as DS…we had such a laugh when we found that out! After a yummy morning tea and a looooooong catch-up, Joy had arranged for us to visit her ‘work’ (I could handle HER ‘work' !!!) where I indulged in a heavy dose of ‘retail therapy’ with very little prompting *hee hee* from Joy and her merry band of work buddies!!!…..put it this way….being asked …..would you like fries with that??….tells me I’ve probably got more than enough!!! Just had to have these….they were on sale….50% off!!! and these gorgeous chubby birds will make a lovely block holder…maybe??? some beautiful RED teacup fabric that knew me by name *heehee* and some essentials that Joy said I reeeeeally needed!!! But I do like the quick-unpick you can see at the bottom of the photo in the plastic casing…..if you look closely, you can see it has a grey ‘rubber’ on top that you literally wipe across your stitches once you’ve unpicked them and it cleans them away!!!  And these cute little USB sticks….I can put all my crafty downloads on these and clear up my hard drive!!!!!  Yay!!!! My credit card was feeling all bruised and battered…it hadn’t seen this much action since…….well, since……last week???……and Joy took us to visit the lovely Nikki Tervo.  Nikki has lots of fabrics as well as her beautiful handcrafted buttons she makes….my first thought was…where do I begin?? I started amongst the Tilda fabrics which you can see here but then my heart skipped a beat when I found all the Robyn Pandolph fabrics….this one just jumped into my arms, for no particular reason… …along with these gorgeous fat quarters and lacy goodness….. and I don’t know how, but these patterns found their way home too… Nikki was so kind…she gave both Marilyn and I a copy of her Girly Gear Bag pattern and I just couldn’t resist signing up for  Nikki’s simply gorgeous Plate Quilt stitchery BOM (do you see a pattern happening here??)  But I figure I couldn’t walk past $10 a month!!! Before we knew it, it was 5pm and time to go….the chef at the Cleveland Lighthouse restaurant very kindly took this photo of us…I daresay he wasn’t a photography buff as it’s not an Elvis hairstyle I’m sporting…our newfound chef-y friend didn’t think a very windy day would make a difference to the photo!!!! I went home with a whole lotta bloggy love and these gorgeous gifts Joy and Marilyn made for me….. Joy’s hanging teatowel….mmmmm, coffee…I love these..so practical and I never seem to have enough, along with a takeaway mug hug and a special Joypatch pen and Marilyn made me this wonderful project pouch.  You can see the plastic zippered side, so you can see what’s in it…. and then the front says….. well, 89, but who’s counting!!??  (do you think Marilyn knows me all too well???? ) Sugary hugs xox :O)