A finished quilt and a happy boy !

At last I have a happy boy ..... who is now planning what his next quilt will look like .....

You would have thought he'd be happy with the one he has in his room that has a fleece back and is apparently his reading quilt and now this one ... which is his tv quilt and has a really fury back ..... but no, he needs s bed quilt aparently with his initials on it :-) .... I did say he needs to get them and paper out and start designing !!

So here is the finished mini twister quilt for watching films in the lounge 

To do :5

Completed 12

Things to do are:

1. Finish Rudolph decorations with help from the kids
2. Finish cards that are out on the side (mainly Christmas cards)
3. Finish towel for Jo
4. Finish cushion corner with Steffi (freehand machine embroidery)
5. Finish stockings with help from the kids

,,.... luckily it's half therm next week ...

 

 

Oooops ..... something new ...

Ooops today instead of finishing off a quilt for Markus I've made dad a hanky for his "British" night on the cruise they are off on tomorrow 

 

The quilt is nearly finished ....... just needs binding ..... but someone had to check it would be ok and luckily it passed 😀

 

A monster evening

Last summer I took my crochet hooks on holiday with me and a few odds and ends of wool and ended up making the kids some monsters. We went and bought some stuffing so they could be finished on holiday but I didn't buy any beads for eyes ..... so they have been sitting around for the last 9 months waiting for eyes. They have also been joined by a couple of others that I've made on flights

 to various places and never finished ..... so finally this week I've finished them ..... with a little help from the bigger monsters in the house to ensure they have the right eyes and mouths 😀

 

And here they are in progress at the start of the week .....

 

To do : 6

Completed : 11

Super Saturday

Well we've had a blitz today and finished 3 things ......

A medal holder for my cycling, running and Tri medals .... just need print another picture and it's all done ..... but some other little monsters would now like one for their medals too 😜

 

Yet more decoupage finished, so it might actually make it back into the cupboard until next year tomorrow .... although Markus did say he wants to go shopping for another thing to do 

 

And the Christmas candles are finally finished after the purchase of a few more candles from ikea today ......

 

To do : 7

Done : 10 (decoupage wasn't on the list after all that!!!)

Friday night crafting

Half an hour free before bed on a Friday night ... what do you do ? Decoupage !!

In the spirit of trying to finish things off that have been around for a while Steffi and I started to finish the decoupage boxes and bits that have been sitting on the table in the family room for a while .... still some to do, and Markus wants to finish his tomorrow too ... so fingers crossed by this time tomorrow something else will be finished 😀

 

a finished dress ..... at long last

I bought myself some knit fabric a few years ago with the promise I would make myself some dresses .... http://josewsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/my-first-dress-for-long-time.html?m=0

Well finally I have finished the first one !!!!!! 😝

It's not perfect by any means and as it's a wrap around dress it may be a little too low cut for my liking but I have a lacy top I can wear under it .... so I'm wearing it to work tomorrow.

 

To do: 9 (but 2 are nearly done)

Finished: 8

Yet more Christmas in May!

Another thing on my list of things to do was to try out the candle transfers Steffi and I found in a shop in Austria at Easter.

We bought some candles when we we went to ikea a couple of weeks ago so tonight we managed to give them a go.

We were both impressed with them so watch out for them in your Christmas presents 🎁 

 

 

Action man will be pleased ....

I found another thing on my desk tonight that's been there a while but it missed the list as it was buried under other things ..... action mans life jacket !!!

Now he neeeeeds a life jacket so that he can go swimming in the new pond at Grandma's house so goodness knows how he's been managing without it .... but it's all fixed now so hopefully he will be happy in the morning !!

 

Christmas in May !

This must be the earliest that I've ever started to make Christmas things  ..... but I had a packet of snowflake stickers on my desk so I just had to make some cards and gift tags .... the cards aren't finished yet and need a bit more work along with a few other cards but the gift tags are finished 😀 🎄

Cushions galore

See busy day today ..... am picking off the easy ones so I made 2 cushions this evening.

I bought the cushion pads at ikea a couple of weeks ago and they were slightly too big for what I wanted so I chopped them down to the size I waned and restuffed them.

Then I looked through my stash and found some material to make 2 cushions for some garden chairs .... and here's the result.

Only one small problem .... I pinned the layers together and then used my overlocker to sew it. Unfortunately the overlocker blade didn't like the pin that I forgot to take out and it had a catastrophic failure 😟..... luckily I can still sew with it, it just doesn't cut the fabric before it sews ..... which is a pain, so I'd best get looking on eBay for a replacement blade !

To do : 10

Finished : 7

 

 

3 at once !

I'm on a roll ...... found the hammer and nails and sorted out the things in my swing room that have been lying around for a while ..... so I now have s space to hang my cutting rulers and the things I've made are on the wall 😀

To do :  11

Finished: 6