Espritpatch

For the last 2 weekends, we spent an awful lot of time in the car, travelling long distances across France. My original plan was to continue the cross stitching but my eye sight is no longer sharp enough to stitch in a moving car... I had to swap the cross-stitchinh for some hand stitching instead. I hadn't grabbed much before we left but I had my Dear Jane pouch with a few pieces to be done.  I started by adding the sashing to block G12 Only to realise that I didn't make it exactly as the original... never mind I then moved onto joining blocks together, adding G12 to G13 Then H5 to H6 Next was E11 to E12/13 And finally E1/2 to E3 and E4 Next step was to sew K11 And finally I worked on a triangle but it's not finished yet Linking  to  Design Wall Monday,   Monday Making ,  Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss ,  Happy Needle and Threa d ,  Brag about your Beauties ,   Off the wall Friday ,   Finished or Not Finished Friday ,   Put your foot down ,  Peacock Party ,   Patchw

  We had a week off last week that we spent in the Alps. It was lovely to have a break in the sun. The week was quite laid back really, making the most of the weather the scenery. I hadn't taken much with me but I had my cross stitch that I hadn't touched since our last trip in May.  In a week I managed to progress clue #4 significantly, but quite finished yet though! And I can't stitch in the car anymore, my eye sight is not as good as it used to be... Linking to  Design Wall Monday,   Monday Making ,  Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss ,  Happy Needle and Threa d ,  Brag about your Beauties ,   Off the wall Friday ,   Finished or Not Finished Friday ,   Put your foot down ,  Peacock Party ,   Patchwork and Quil t Celine

School is now over and with that teachers'presents are also completed! And on time too. Granted, I made a lot less than last year with all the bags we gifted before or big move, not just to school teachers. But considering the very little time I  spent creating in the last year or so I had to be realistic. So for my youngest daughter's teacher, I also made 2 Open Wide Pouch from the pattern by Anna. I picked a different fabric combination for those ones, a leftover from a handbag I made a few years back (I still love this fabric) paired with a chartreuse faux leather.   For the lining it was a cotton with a dark blue Chevron. All from my stash of course, including the zips. Again I made the bigger one and the smaller one.  Maybe it's because I had just made them the week before but they came together very easily and quite fast actually. Which was just as well as time was running out!  Finished in time to be gifted to the teacher on the last day of school, exactly one week a

   Is it even worth trying? Am I dreaming awake??? It has been quite a few weeks now since I haven't done any sewing so I'm not sure whether I'll ever find motivation again... I'll pick more or less the same list as last month, who knows... Maybe my one and only goal for this month should be to pick up a needle and stitch something or to set up my sewing space and turn my machine on... Quilting 1.   Flabellum quilt - needs  binding -  I will make this one my  One monthly goal   2. Super Mario quilt -  needs binding finished off (not even the full binding! And gazillions of threads buried) Will it finally be finished? 3. Farmer's Wife quilt - about 30 blocks needed still... 4. Storm at Sea 5. Dear Jane 6. Boho Sew Along - lots of blocks to catch up on, I finally completed a few of the applique ones 7. Impromptu quilt - needs quilting. It is a very big quilt so I went to get it professionally quilted. Maybe it will get sent this month... or maybe not still Dressmaking