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It was lovely to catch up with the class girls again last week. Paddy brought in her Foxley Village which has been beautifully quilted by Terina.

 Ronnie has been busy too and completed her Hugs and Kisses pouch. Looks lovely.

Lynne has been busy cross stitching too! How amazing is this lovely scene. It will be perfect in her sewing room.

I have been enjoying the applique on this little Ipad case, designed by Anni Downs. There were some very small pieces to needleturn.

 Mind you the stitching was a real pleasure.

 My 10 minutes per day at the machine is slowly paying off. Here are some of my "My Town" blocks with their first borders on. I so loved appliqueing these and am looking forward to finishing the top.....eventually.

Foxley Village finished!

I can't believe that this quilt is finally finished. Lots of binding happened here last week! I am just amazed at the beautiful quilting by my very talented friend, Robyn, of Plain and Fancy. The quilting adds so much to the final presentation of the quilt. Thanks too to Natalie Bird for the lovely design and to Tilda for the great fabrics. The pattern was a BOM in the Homespun magazine in 2016.

 Click on these pictures to see the quilting details.

 Here is my label for the quilt.

Show and tell

As always, it was great to catch up with the stitching, lunch and class girls last Wednesday. They have been busy! Janet has three littlies and her eldest is at school this year so her dolly had to have a winter uniform. The shirt even has cuffs and the dress has pleats too.

 Barbara has just finished this gorgeous picture that she bought as a kit in Japan. I love the liberty cups!

 Lynne has been busy doing this amazing weaving!! Looks so good.

 Paddy has finished her Anderson's Farm and it looks so beautiful.

 In the evening, Margaret brought along her beautiful Foxley Village which has been quilted. It looks great.

 I love what Margaret did with the backing too.

 I have been stitching too and managed to complete Part 4 of Dancing Chickens and Flying Pigs. I am working on Part 5 now as the next part will be here next week. Going on holidays certainly puts you behind in your projects!

Progressing

I have been slowly working on my ongoing projects. Doing a little each day gets you there eventually! I finally put the rows and the blocks all together for Foxley Village.

 I have cut all the border fabrics and am making a few blocks each day.

 Yesterday was a home day so I put together the centre of Anderson's Farm. I had to cut and piece the little squares and then join up the blocks.

 My Splendid Sampler blocks are still coming along. I am 2 behind now so must get onto them soon.

 These t-shirts have kept me busy too. I stupidly asked Benny and Sammy what they would like on their shirts. And here they are! They wanted Peter Rabbit, Lily Rabbit (from the TV show), the very hungry caterpillar and a racing car!!!!

An outing and some sewing

Amy and her family gave me an afternoon out at high tea at the Hyatt for Christmas. What a delightful gift. We girls had such a lovely afternoon eating delicious goodies, chatting and playing ladies!

In these quiet weeks, I have been trying to get on with my ongoing projects! Here are a few more blocks of the Splendid Sampler.

 I managed to finish the final blocks of Foxley Village. Just need to sew the blocks all together and start the pieced borders.

 Two more corners blocks made for Anderson's Farm then piecing as well!

 In between, I enjoyed stitching another block of United stitches. These are fun to do as they are printed on the fabric.

 Lastly, I was a little naughty and couldn't resist starting Dancing Chickens and Flying Pigs by Anni Downs. This is so much fun.

Stitching progress

It has been very hot here lately and it is a bit draining. Luckily we have cooling so some stitching has still been done over these lovely quiet weeks. My most pressing finish was this lovely Tilda bag that Fiona designed for our retreat last year. We are making these projects in class at Hobbysew in a few weeks so I wanted it ready.

 I am a little behind in the Splendid Sampler but with only 10 blocks to go, I do need to keep going. I have enjoyed the process and have learnt lots but will be a little pleased when it is over so I can concentrate on my many other projects.

 I also worked on the last two hand stitched blocks of Foxley village. I do need to applique another fox but mostly it is machining to be done to get the quilt together.

 My other almost finished quilt is Anderson's Farm. These are two of the 4 corner blocks.

 It was lovely to go to stitching on Wednesday and catch up with the ladies. Donna has been making this amazing woollen blanket. She is so clever!