With the snow still lying and freezing fog it was good to be indoors sewing with friends. I did some more to the wreath block. Just five leaves to sew down tonight. I've just noticed that I've not yet added the centre pieces.
I also started my, Sugar Plum Parish Christmas Wool Applique Ornaments.
I've done some work on the Songbird Christmas Tree.
These I hope will be sewn, one each month.
Tomorrow, Sunday, I hope to visit the other FNwF blogs.
Happy sewing
Josie
Thank you to Cheryll for hosting Friday Night with Friends, I managed to do my sewing in the morning and afternoon in the U.K. Hopefully whilst others were sewing around the world. The snow didn't appear as forecast but there was a cold wind from the north.
Some progress on my wreath block.
I hope to sew again this afternoon. We are allowed to exercise for an hour outside, so I'll be going for a walk as well. Now time to make my salad for lunch,
happy sewing
Josie
After basting all the shapes for this wreath it's time to start the applique. I find the overlay really helps with the placement of the pieces.
I'm not going to walk today, my housemaids knee was too painful yesterday. I have washed the bedding and refilled all the bird feeders. We'll be lucky to get above freezing today, so the poor birds are very happy to be fed.
Unfreezing the various bird baths was also necessary.
I'm revisiting a kit I bought on an online selling site. It is an old 1984 kit called Thirteen Colonies Album Quilt Kit.
I have finished four blocks, grapes,
grain
and two wreathes,
now onto another wreath.
happy slow stitching.
After vacuuming upstairs and reorganizing the old airing cupboard it's time to sit and sew with a large cup of coffee. This is the start of my month six of a BOM Patchwork of The Crosses box. I do all the cutting and basting first, then the inter locking repetitive blocks before the larger more individual blocks.
All the Christmas decorations are out and the cards posted. The weather is wet and windy, very grey, so I will need the lights on all day. It does mean I will not be standing on the touchline cheering on my grandson today at his football match.
A rather quick walk to the local post office to post Australian and American Christmas cards, the weather was as predicted, sleet and rain. Came home and found missing decoration hanger, my memory of where I had put only a couple of weeks ago had completely evaporated. It's now looking much better but I need to find the twinkle lights to finish it off. Walked round the block this afternoon, drier but a cold wind. Pleased to come home to a hot ginger drink.
Month 3 of the quilt blocks.
A record of sewing through the second half of the year.
Month 2 of the 2019 BOM by Sew and Quilt of the Lucy Boston, Patchwork of the Crosses quilt.
