We're back....

Well, G and I went - we saw - we spent and then looked and looked again... So many gorgeous, stunning, mind shattering, unbelievable quilts... After a while looking at them all became sensory overload... G and I wandered around and for a change I was quite conservative with my money... I did buy some material, a button and and six preprinted stitcheries... G abd I both commented on the abundance of Japanese material considering a few years ago you were lucky to see one stall selling it let alone the the amount of stalls we saw yesterday... G went off to do a workshop on tumbling blocks and I just wandered for the hour... One thing that did capture my interest was the 'Roses from the Heart' display - the link will give you the general idea of what is all about... You could look through lists of convict women and chose a name - I chose Mary Corbett who was 36 and sent to Australia for stealing a quilt... She was a widow with 2 children when she was sent out here... I am looking forward to creating the bonnet a connection between the present to the past... Stay tuned...
Here a just a few quilts which caught my camera lens...

Bye, bye....

G and I are off to the Quilt Convention for the day...

Here I go, here I go again...

...I seem to have lost my stitching mojo again lately... I started back on the Gail Pan's free BOM from last year... I managed to do two more of the blocks fairly quickly then I stalled again on 'delight'... I have done quite a bit of back stitching lately and I think I need some other type stitching to break the cycle... Yesterday P took me down to The Needlepoint in East Malvern as I heard that they are having a sale... I was restrained as I was there on a mission looking fro some fabric - unfortunately they didn't have what I wanted, so they sent me up to Patchwork on Central Park -which is only a block further away - to see that they might have more what I was looking for... What a hardship that was!!! LOL - P came well prepared for these visits with his book so he sat in the car while I 'ferreted away' in both shops...

Did you buy anything you ask??? LOL - Does the Sun come up each morning??? Yes of course I did.. See following photos... I love the Pairie Schooler range of cross stitch patterns so I bought two of those... The alphabet one I have always loved since I did 'M is for Mermaid' which I changed into 'M is for Melanie' for my eldest daughter whose name is coincidentally Melanie... I couldn't quite decide which alphabet pattern to start with and I thought why not just start with A.B.C - I have a feeling I shall bump it up the 'to do' list... The other one as you can see has a Christmas theme to it - lol I don't know when I think I am going to do all these but one can dream... The two other items I bought was the pale pink Perle cotton and the fabric I needed at the patchwork shop - but I could have been so bad if I had really wanted to...

I have decided to work on this little chap again - he sits looking mournfully at me every time I go into my stitching tub... He was such a small project which got tossed into my stitching tub when something else took my eye...

Well that is enough from me... Happy stitching

Sharon xx

Chloe's Place

Today I was delighted to see an 'old face' has returned to blogging after quite an absence... L was one of my first contacts in the blogging world and in fact she came for a visit and patiently helped me construct my first 'crazy' block... LOL - As you can see L - it has advanced somewhat but I wouldn't say that it was completed...

So if you want to see some wonderful embroidery take yourself over to Chloe's Place and give yourself a visual feast...

Look...

... a small finish... I am starting to build a collection of these little blue stitcheries... This one was nice and quick to do...

A finish...

...a start...

...last but not least - an oldie but goodie...

G I finally found her - tucked away she was - three hours of searching and lots of mutterings, some swearing - I finally unearthed her... She is my 'project in waiting' while I consider what I want to do next... And believe me I found lots to consider...

In my unearthing I found the little pre-printed 'home' so I thought until I settle on my next big project I will stitch this... It will match up with my blue cat and the welcome stitchery I did last year... I have this idea of creating a feature of all of these little stitcheries...

My red work lady had me a little intimidated as I am certainly not a lover of satin stitch nor am I very good at it and the last bits of this particular piece had quite a bit of it to do... After procrastinating for quite a few months I finally took the bull by the horns and settled down to finish it... I am reasonably happy with the way it turned out so it has joined my other red lady in the box until I decide what I am going to do with it...

I am in a strange place re my stitching - I am not sure what to think why I feel like I do but these last few months I haven't had the enthusiasm I have had previously... One reason I think is that I feel a little overwhelmed as I realise that over the last couple of years especially I have collected quite a bit - realistically I know that probably 60% of it won't be stitched or even make it out of its packets... I am a little aghast at the dollar value I have just sitting in the cupboard - but in saying that I am more than a little reluctant to sell or give any of it away... Not sure what the answer is I am sure it will come to me if I don't stress about it too much...

Until then

Sharon xx

I fell off The Wagon too *A !!!!

... well, I just couldn't resist this one... Yeah, I know what I said - no more stash buying - blah, blah, blah - now how boring is that... If I start this immediately then it becomes a WIP doesn't it... This is a Lanarta design called appropriately enough "Baboushka" There are two more in the series a larger one and a small one - this is the medium size. I will be definitely buying the other two to match so I am not even going to start making justifications to why... I am really looking forward to bringing this little lady 'to life' so to speak... If I get myself together, tonight could be the night for crossing the first cross...

* A from Feather Stitching was commenting how she had fallen off the wagon re her stitching stash - I just wanted her to know she had company :)