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 ...

  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, exactl...

   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 no...

My sewing space organisation had made enough progress so that I could sew a little, but then... disaster struck. The room got flooded and had to be more or less emptied... moving stuff AGAIN and sorting out to check the damage.  At least this month I managed to turn my machine on to make a set of open wide pouches for my middle daughter's form teacher. She even sent me a thank you note for them. My one and only finish this month! I also cut a boxy top but that didn't go any further. It would be good to finish it before summer really.   And I managed to sell 2 pieces of fabric this month. I tried for more but in the end only 2 went.  Linking to June  Furtle Celine

  Just when I thought I'd finally have a sewing corner, I walked into the office/craft room on Friday morning to find it had about 1cm of water on the floor... we had heavy rains due to a thunderstorms and it seems that water accumulated under the floor of the room and eventually passed over the brand new laminate flooring that was laid about 3 months ago... 😭 Everything that was still piled on the floor was wet and I must admit there was quite a fair bit that had not going its space yet. So we quickly got all but the furniture out to no out all up and then proceed with our work day. I spent Saturday sorting out through everything to du what needed to be and evaluate the damages...  A few of my sewing supplies were soaked for a while so some ended stained or with colours running sadly... I had all the cut steps for the Gipsy Wife quilt on display Sunday to dry them out and my booklet got completely soaked too... Of course that's meant no other sewing since... thankfully my ma...

  The open wide pouches that I started last weekend are finished and gifted! They were meant to be end of year gifts for my middle daughter's main teacher who has been very good at helping her settle in school in France. Her last school day was Thursday so there was no other option but to finish them on Wednesday night, which I duly did!  A big massive pouch and a tiny one Both with a UK-themed lining I didn't have 2 identical zips so the smaller one is pink, the larger one is beige with tabs of assorted colour.  I hope her teacher likes them and find a use for them! It felt very good to be seeing again and to use a little bit of this massive stash we've moved... It has been such a long time since I didn't finish something! 2 this month feels great.  Linking to  Brag about your Beauties ,   Off the wall Friday ,   Finished or Not Finished Friday ,   Put your foot down ,  Peacock Party ,   Patchwork and Quil t Celine