Angel on Duty May ornie

This is a Dimensions chart from a Booklet titled 'Country Pleasures.. and easy stitch on 28C even weave with the recommended DMC threads. I added the buttons on the stars. This will be my small for May too as it is quite a lot larger than my other christmas ornies..
I also have been sewing again....

.... and have made a sunflower fabric peg bag!! And it has been used by DH already!
Happy days

Chris xx

My latest sewing project and a change in life habits!

My latest sewing effort. It's a little dorothy drawstring bag. it was such a delight to sew, which might sound a bit silly but I just loved sewing it. I think one of these with some little makeup or shower bits would make a super christmas present. But this one is for me!

It's a nicer sage green than the picture shows and the red fabric lines the pockets and the bag.
I am so loving sewing again and I have so many things I want to do.

And now something else that I am doing....
Trying to lose weight has been a battle for me for the last few years, my latest read is this...

I have had this book for some time but never got round to reading it. I had a bit of set back the beginning of the year with the wrong thyroxin dose, but it is all stabilised now and I  am back to Slimming World. I have also decided to walk each day. I have been having acupuncture for my hip bursitis these last 4 weeks and the relief it has given me is amazing. So I feel I can now walk where as 5 weeks ago I could hardly walk from the kitchen to the lounge. It will mean less stitching and sewing time, but reading this book has brought home to me how being exessively over weight is deadly!

I am happy to follow the SW food plan and I know from experience it works but  I need to alter my every day habits. It is not going to be easy but once I get into a more healthy exercise day I know it will come naturely. I gave up  biscuits for Lent and I never ever think of them now. It seems that anything you do for 7 weeks becomes easier!

So I am giving it a go!

Hope you are happily doing what ever you like to do.

Chris xx 

Just a little patchwork quilted purse.

My latest project in patchwork and quilting is this little fan purse.

I am using it for my rotary cutters and scissors and pins.. I loved doing the fancy stitching along the seams with my Husqvava machine. Bought six years ago and only in the last two years have I used all its features. I think this design would be a very nice Christmas present for friends.

And it is a lovely way to use up small pieces of fabric. I had to go to Hobby Craft in Basildon to buy the zip and had to pay to park! What a price,  here in Billericay parking is free at weekends. So to off set the cost of parking I had to buy some other items! Just some lovely gold cord for Christmas ornies and a bundle of six denim blue pattened fabric fat quarters! Did I need the fabric?? Of course I did!!
Happy stitching all... and today we have glorious sunshine, so I will be happily gardening,
Chris xx

May Wipocalyse.. a late post.

My 'Summer' Celtic Lady is looking good and I can see a finish in the next few months.

The fabric is a dream to stitch, from Polstitches and it is so soft. Lots of beads to sew on but I think I have  nearly finished the actual stitching..

Rosewood Manor, 'Quaker and Quilts' is moving along too, although I must stitch the last 'quilt' piece by the end of May,  if I am to finish this by the end of the year.

I do like stitching this as it has definite sections so shows it growing.

However this Chatelaine Convents Herbal Garden is my nightmare!

Although it has all been enlarged because it was so small (an echart) some of the numbers which are beads are blurred. This small bit I stitched in April has been frogged and frogged, to the extent at one point I was going to throw it, as I stitched a whole section only to find when I peered at it in day light with a magnifying glass, it wasn't the stitch symbol  I thought it was but #4!!
I am sure it will be wonderful when it is finished eventually,  but it will be in my wips for a long, long time..

Apart from my stitching I did a lot of patchwork and quilting as well in April.  'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' quilt was a great success. And DH's family were very pleased with it and very complimentary.  And from that I have been asked to make other quilts! I have a couple and a bag on the go and love sewing it all. I now have an extensive stash of fabrics as well as cross stitch stuff..the colours and designs of fabrics are all so lovely I can't resist. Where  I go for my quilting work shop is an Aladdin's cave, of fabrics and wools.. just bliss to look round!

Happy Stitching and hope you're in the dry, where is all this rain coming from? I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see frogs in my garden any day now!!LOL

Chris xx