I was able to dip in and out all day with the weather being cold and wet in the U.K.
I need to finish this sock and start on it's pair. Just the toe decreasing to go.
I also started sewing down the stems on the Cherokee Rose block, the some basting on the leaves in the evening.
January 2021, 1 Xmas Item a Month ,
Anyway, I'm going to attempt to make Christmas decorations through the year.
Here is the first, Songbird Christmas Tree by Shawn Yorke of Rusty Crow.
I've also finished the wreath block this week.
Now onto Cherokee Rose the Georgia block.
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.
