Friday's Christmas class

On Friday I had 8 lovely ladies do the first Christmas day at Hobbysew. Here they are getting straight down to work.

All the ladies painted the wooden button and some even painted several! Here are Jo and Marion painting.

One of the ladies brought along her finished biscornu, from the Stitching day, to show me. Doesn't it look wonderful? The button in the centre is just perfect.

Patricia had this absolutely beautifully beaded needlecase with her.

This is the inside. It was so neat and all perfectly labelled so you would know which needle was which! Oh, if only my needlecase looked like this.

Patricia's initials are beautifully embroidered inside the lid. I did try to suggest that they looked a little like mine! Najelle and Cathy prepared a delicious morning tea, lunch and some lovely fruit for afternoon tea. We were very spoilt.

Fiona's Giveaway

Fiona has reached her 300th post and is having a giveaway. She is giving away a lovely biscornu stitched in beautiful variegated thread. Head over to her blog and leave a comment to be in the draw. I best comment too! This is the prize! Hope I win.

Wednesday at the shop

One of the Wednesday social stitchers, Angela, is into all things Japanese and has just made this foundation pieced Japanese girl. The fabric of her kimono is Japanese kimono silk.

One of the girls at Hobbysew put some borders on this delightful Christmas panel by Sandy Gervais. It is a lovely range of fabrics and it turned out so well several of the panels sold in the days following! It is always inspiring to see a sample.

In the evening class, Sue showed us her lovely stitched Santa. Doesn't he look great. Hard to believe that he is only about 4" or 10cm tall.

Sue has also been working on her biscornu from the stitching day. She had almost sewn it together by the end of the evening. Linda had finished hers too.

Stitching on the Bay will have started by now and I do hope you are having a good time. Wish I were there.

Stitching day Projects

Only a week to go till our first stitching day, Stitching on the Lake, on Saturday 12 September and our second, Queanbeyan stitching, on Sunday 13th. It is always exciting preparing the projects and Fiona and I thought we would post some pictures of our projects on our blogs. This will enable you to collect some fabrics together and to decide which one you will make first. This is the Canvas envelope. This shows the front, the inside and the back.

Here are the Strawberries Galore. There is a little felt strawberry which could be a scissor keeper or decoration and a lovely little strawberry clover cutter cover.

This is the Santa Hanging.

Here is the little Embroidered Stocking Decoration. It is stitched on ticking, which is like the fabric that mattresses were made out of in the olden days.

Here is the little Christmas Cushion. If you are planning to make this one if would be good if you did the log cabin by machine at home.

Here is the Biscornu Pincushion. It looks so lovely and could be done in Christmas colours if you want.

Hope this inspires you.