I’m sorry I’ve kept you all waiting a little longer than usual, but as this will be my last post of 2024 I thought I’d hold off for a bit. Let’s get into it!
November was full of drama at home. The element in the big oven went, so we were down to the little oven, which wasn’t really big enough so we crumbled and bought an Air Fyrer. It is the BEST THING EVER! The cheese toasties alone are amazing! The oven is now fixed thankfully.
We had a new boiler installed which led to the discovery that when our solar panels were put on the roof, they flattened the mini chimney for the gas fire under a panel – I don’t need to tell you what could’ve happened if we’d used the fire. That’s now capped off properly.
Molly had a bad back again, which meant I had three nights sleeping in the living room to make sure she didn’t do anything silly. We had to lift all her toys for the best part of a week which she didn’t enjoy, bless her. She’s back on full form and not enjoying the cold weather because we make her wear a coat!
So, you can sort of see why I’ve not been able to concentrate on writing a post this past month! All the above was going on whilst we were packing up all the Christmas countdown boxes as well. We’re trying not to count down the days till our break begins…
ON TO QUILTING!
Here’s another 36 of my Diary Quilt hexagons for this year…
This is how the quilt is looking as of the end of November…
I’ve not shared what I’m planning on doing in 2025, and it’s not an ‘official’ sewalong through the shop. I’m going to be doing a rainfall quilt, as my four years of recording daily temperatures is coming to an end. I’ve got myself a rain gauge so we’ll see how we get on.
I’ve been carrying on with the Focus Cutting Sewalong, but I realised that when I worked out how many connecting triangles, I’d need I’d left ‘W’ off of my diagram, so I only have space for one block each of X, Y and Z! D’oh! This is how the Mother Quilt is looking before the last row is added…
These are the blocks for V, W and X…
In amongst all the EPP I’ve dipped back into cross stitch, mainly because I started a sweary one at retreat and haven’t yet found a way to display it properly yet. But I have finished a Muppet Christmas Carol themed one…
And one each for Jade and Lindsey of LJF in their favourite colours, with on-brand pink and sweary labels on the backs!
I’ve also been making bags with Teddy and The Bears by Sarah Watts of Ruby Star Society…
A foundation pieced Christmas tree of Christmas trees, a pattern from the Christmas issue of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine…
And my workshop sample for my (now full) Curves in EPP workshop next July! Tula Pink + Ruby Star Society = perfection!
Enough about me, before I sign off for 2024, I’m going to share some customer finishes and the results of our Wonky Christmas Tree workshop…
Thank you for putting up with my waffling for another twelve months, here’s Molly crashed out under our Singer treadle where this year we actually have a tree – albeit a fake one!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!