I did two new designs for this Christmas, the first was the table centre which could be a wall hanging, a tree mat or a cushion as well as the table centre, with just a little bit of tweaking it works for all four, really enjoyed this. and loved doing some free motion quilting too not done so much recently. 

  

the second design were this gorgeous gift bag set, adding some bling to the designs with little wooden hangers, ribbons and bells, a fun set to make and to give away or keep for years to come, could be part of your yearly decorations.

loving the fabrics from both projects, wish i had more lol

                            

 

Oh i am really rubbish at keeping my blog up to date, i don't know how i had time to go to work 40 to 50 hours a week, i seemed to be more organised then, oh and having the hour or so first thing in the morning to blog maybe what kept this going. maybe i need to set myself a timetable of what to do when, that would help me out now, maybe that should be a new years goal, to get organised!!

mmm need to think about this.

my journaling seems to have lost its spot as well at the minute although that's because I'm just not organised in the craft room, a reorganise is on the cards.

and then maybe a timetable of what to do when would be good. as sewing is my business i feel that i should devote all my time to that and feel guilty if i don't but surely i need to give some of my time to the other things i enjoy too, see a timetable may be in order.

but i need to bring things up to date in here, last time i blogged it was July, although that seems like yesterday, its now November!! whoops!!

so what's been happening since July?

Well

and i think these are in the wrong order......

    

Polly came to stay, was meant to be a 4 dayer but it ended up just one night but we managed to get some sewing in and spend some time together, it was over all too quickly as it always is!!

i have been doing the vintage market all year which has been lovely, just once a month on a Sunday, love doing the markets, this is from the 1940's weekend they had in the park, only did the Sunday but it was an amazing day, back to its proper spot in May for 2022 so will be doing both days for that one, looks to be a great event.

      

we formed a crochet group, our first meet up was in the country park, we have since moved to hill top farm where we meet have lunch and crochet, always get comments from other people that are there.  just a small little group, Gemma, Elaine, Allison, Dawn and myself

sewing wise i have done quite a lot, one being the printing workshop, not that the full workshop has happened yet bt Elaine and Gemma did try this out for me, a lovely afternoon.

we haven't managed to have our retreat yet but this is now booked for February WOOHOO, cant wait!

we have had a couple of meetups though, Susan, Ann, Ben Barb and myself.

miss spending time with these guys so looking forward to February.

just a few of the projects i have been working on since July, there have been many, i will do a separate post for the Christmas projects.

some new notebook cover designs, plus bag fabrics, they change so quickly as i run out of fabrics, 

some crocheting and wool spinning using drop spindles that Niall made for me, love this!

we also did a crochet along doing the grace blanket, all the colours are gorgeous, we all did something different, must get some photo's of all the colours together.

     

so a little catch up from July to about October.