February FNwF

Last Friday was FNwF (and yes, I'm a bit late as it is now the following Thursday!)

this is a virtual sew-in hosted by the lovely Cheryll from Gone Stitchin'

To combat our heat I went for a snowy scene this FNwF:

Winter in the Village by Stoney Creek
I think that the fabric is 28 count Mocha Linen
Using the called for DMC floss

I had not stitched on this since September 2018!

If you would like to see what others stitched for FNwF, please click here and follow the link.

My latest New Start Sunday post can be found here, if you are interested in having a look.

Thanks for visiting and please don't forget to leave a comment as I do love a good chat,

hugs, 

September Pie ....

Here is my stitching/crafting pie for September.....

Okay, what is a Stitching Pie, I hear you ask?

Well, I am "stealing" yet another great idea from my dear Stitchy and Bloggy friend, Jo, from Serendipitous Stitching. Each month she includes a pie graph of which projects she has been stitching on - showing how much time, proportionally, has been spent on each one in that month.

I really like this idea, so I am copying it, thank you Jo, I hope that you don't mind, so here we go for September 2018 .....

(Note:I think it has been nearly two years since I last gave you a slice of stitching pie - my apologies)

Here is my September 2018 Pie...

... and here is the breakdown of minutes over the month for each September project:

Altogether I stitched for 10.3% of the month.  This down a bit from October two years ago (when I last recorded my stitching time) when it was 12% but then, when you consider that I am ten times busier now then I was back then (I was actually not working at all this time two years ago and now I am working two days a week plus all of the house stuff!), I think it is pretty good.

Of course, I had better show you all of the pretties that I have been stitching on this past month - most of which you will have seen in earlier posts but not Peas and Qs recently, so I will start with that project.

This is the very pretty Peas and Qs by The Cricket Collection....

Sorry, the fabric is not ombre but the first pic I took was very washed out - see below.

Then, of course, there is my Happy Dance - Silent Night by CCN.

... and Winter in the Village by Stoney Creek.

... and my Antique Roses Sampler by DMC, which as featured a few times on recent posts.

My red bird hearts .....

... and lastly, Christmas Goose by Stacy Nash (if you think this looks familiar, I did stitch this about five years ago - check it out here - but I love the pattern so much that I am stitching it again as I think that I gave the first one away).

If you wish to check out my earlier pies, please click on the links below:

October, 2016

September, 2016

August, 2016

Okay, that is all from me for now.  Have a good day, everyone, 

hugs, 

FNSI and IHSW_September update

Hello! Hello! It is time for my September FNSI and IHSW reports (having missed both July and August).

Click on the logo below to find out all about FNSI.

if you would like to find out more about IHSW, please click on Hermie below:

                                  

It is such a lovely idea - to be stitching with other like-minded people from all over the globe, no matter the time zone, all weekend long - bliss!  In fact, any stitching time is great, isn't it?

For FNSI (and Friday Frolics), I picked up Winter in the Village by Stoney Creek Designs.

This is what my village looked like before I started - as you can see I had to start with a bit of frogging as I had used the wrong green (you should see the floss list for this design  - so many colours!).

This is where I got up to after FNSI:

I then kept stitching on it over the weekend for IHSW and this is now where I am up to:

I also stitched on Silent Night by CCN for IHSW, this is the before photo....

... and the after photo, I am nearly finished so I will keep stitching on this piece this week until it is finished. Such a pretty design.

 ... and just to finish, here is a pic of darling Furio, soaking up some Spring sunshine.

If you would like to see who else took part in FNSI for September, please click on this link here:

FNSI

... and once the link is up for IHSW, I will add that, too.

Update:  Here is the link to this month's IHSW linky party.

Lots of lovely stitchy hugs to you all, 

hugs, 

April TUSAL report....

I am so pleased with this month's little ball of fluff! i.e. my April ORTs.....

Here it is, with my latest New Start Sundays project: Winter in the Village by Stoney Creek.

... and my all my 2018 TUSALs together....

If you are wondering what on earth I am talking about, please click on the pic below.

I just had to tell you about the latest family WhatsApp chat (it is how we all stay in touch with everyone scattered around the world).

DD1 in London was scoffing at the Brits idea of a heatwave...

Whilst DS1 in Brunei can only dream of such cool weather!

To add my two cents worth in, last week Melbourne was nearly 30 degrees all week with a last burst of summer but we all felt that the weekend was freezing when the top temp was 17 but it actually hovered around 13 degrees all day.  It is all perspective, isn't it?

hugs,