Stitching on Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday and Wednesday were busy days with work and classes. Barb brought her lovely quilt in to show that she made in a class at the shop. Looks great.

Josie is a bit like me and loves Christmas. She has just finished this beautiful hanging using some gorgeous buttons.

On Wednesday evening, Audrey brought her quilt again and it has been beautifully quilted.

Just check out the lovely stitched label for her 90 year old Grandma. So special. I am sure she will love this gift.

Heidi also brought a quilt to show us. The fabrics work so well in this quilt.

So much to show and tell

I had a lovely Wednesday again with social stitching and then classes in the afternoon and evening. It was so good to see everyone and to see what they have been stitching. It might fill a few blog posts! Donna does the most exquisite wool embroidered blankets and she is working on an Australian native one and this is the centre so far. It is worth clicking on it and making it larger to see the detail. She designs it all herself using some embroidery books for inspiration.

This is in a corner of the blanket.

Jan has been making the loveliest shoe bags to use when travelling. I think you would have to have very beautiful shoes to put in these bags! After stitching some of us went out to Gold Creek to have lunch at the gorgeous tea shop out there. I really had dessert only and had the yummy dutch profetjies and they were so good. It is well worth a visit and I hope to go again!

Sally, in the evening class, has a brand new grandchild and has made this lovely bunny quilt for her.

Carol came to class last night with a whole bag of finished things. Fantastic work, Carol. We thought she might not miss a few if they jumped into our bags! Here are just 2 of them. This is a Nancy Halverson design and doesn't it look great on the wire stand. I wonder who has one of those stands hidden in her cupboard without a hanging on it?

Carol has also finished her little chocolate basket from one of my patterns from an earlier stitching day. Looks great, Carol. 

You will have to wait till tomorrow to see the rest of Carol's and the other girls' lovely stitching.

More show and tell from the shop

How gorgeous is this hobby horse that Jo has made from a Melly and Me pattern? She is just so special. Jo hasn't any grandies yet but they will be lucky to have her as their grandma one day!

This lovely girly quilt is all finished ready for another special grandchild.

Paddy has finished her Country home hanging. It has turned out so well. Your fabrics look so good, Paddy.

Here is a closeup of one of the beautiful bee buttons that Paddy is going to stitch onto her hanging. It is one of Laraine's from "Up in Annie's room". We stock some of her lovely buttons at Hobbysew.

Wednesday evening

Danielle had been busy getting her Christmas projects completed ready for this year. This is the lovely stitched hanger from one of Nancy Halverson's books.

She has also almost finished her card hanging as well.

Sue has finished her cushion from the "The World as it should be" book by Anni Downes. It looks so good and I love the covered buttons. Sue used a Nancy Halverson tea towel to make the cushion.

Margaret has been working on some lovely little Christmas decorations to give as gifts.

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.

Stitching Day projects

Fiona and I thought we would show you our projects for Stitching on the Lake which is on next Saturday 2 May. We are also running a day in Queanbeyan on the Sunday with the same projects. We are really looking forward to the weekend and to sharing a great couple of days of stitching, good food, friendship and lots of chat and laughter. Fiona will be posting the other projects on her blog, Peaceful Threads. 
This is little Lucy Bear. She is only 15cms (6") tall.

These two bags can have their pockets either stitched or partly decorated using a punchneedle.

This is the Little Village Hanging and it has another green border and binding to finish it off. I took the picture at this stage to show the detail of the little houses. They are only about 5 cms (2") or so tall.