Book List 2018

• A Single Thread - Marie Bostwick
• Summer at the Lake - Erica James
• A Dangerous Game - Heather Graham
• We Never Asked for Wings - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• The Night Stalker - Robert Bryndza
• The Second Sister - Marie Bostwick
• Every Woman For Herself - Trisha Ashley
• Right Where We Belong - Brenda Novak
• A Family Recipe - Veronica Henry
• Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern
• The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant
• If I Could Turn Back Time - Beth Harbison
• The Marble Collector - Cecelia Ahern
• The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
• While We Were Watching Downton Abbey - Wendy Wax
• Summer At the Little Beach Street Bakery - Jenny Colgan
• Little Beach Street Bakery - Jenny Colgan
• Happy People Read Books & Drink Coffee - Agnes Martin-Lugand
• The Secret of Midwives - Sally Hepworth
• Catching Air - Sarah Pekkanen
• The Girl In The Ice - Robert Bryndza
• The Lacemakers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri
• The Real Katie Lavendar - Erica James
• The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
• Bridget Crack - Rachel Leary

Not a bad job this year.  Helped along with some audio books while sewing which was great.  

Merry Christmas

Welcome Santa, Farewell Doug

Day 20

Day 21 & 22 hahahaha....

Day 23

Day 24

Last Socks 2018

Finishing off the year with one last pair of socks for Stuart.  Scrap socks again as they really are fun & a surprise the whole way. 

Socks # 14 2018

More Christmas Fun

I finished off this sneaky gift.  It is for a very good friend.   We are having our own little Christmas party, myself & 2 others.  I love these 2 girls.  (she loved her runner!)  

Day 16

Day 17

Day 18

Day 19

Grinch - mas

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Day 13

Day 14

Day 15

End Of Year Gifts

Continuing on with handmade gifts for the end of year things, I made a few fun things.

First the tote bag for the boys piano teacher. ( Seems he was rather taken aback & pleased.)  It's probably a nice change from chocolate!  lol  It is cool though.  I love this fabric.  

A gorgeous cowl I knitted although this was finished some time ago.  It was a good thing I started early in the year on this.  But it looked lovely, & the colours suited BJ's teacher.  Hope she wears it! 

This is the one I had planned ages ago.  I was at work when we ordered this Dr Seuss fabric & I waited for it to come so I could do this for DJ's teachers.  It was perfect for them as they spent the first half of the year reading these books too.  (It seems both teachers were rapt with theirs.  I think I need to stock up on the fabric so I can continue to make them for future teachers. )

Douglas Is Chilled

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Douglas Returns

Day 1

He wrote on the window. Can't find the picture!  argh!

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Tomte

I showed you the first Tomte I sewed last week.  This is the rest of the clan.  

It's been a sew a long with a bunch of other folk all around the world.  It is always interesting to see all the different ways people make them.  Mine are fairly ordinary though.  Blue sky, white snow, green trees.  You get the idea.  They were a lot of fun.  I still haven't done the 2 girl designs though.  Maybe after Christmas I will get them back out & maybe even turn them into something.  

I finally started getting the hang of the foundation paper piecing too.  Good fun to try new things!  

These designs are by Moss And Lotus...  check them out.

This one I had to include.  The design on the left is an "ugly sweater pattern" from kidgiddy.  It's from the sister of the designer of the Tomte.  So I decided that I needed to make this Tomte a match sweater block ..  Turned out pretty cute I think.   Now I need to make a whole bunch of sweaters! 

It's All About Handmade

So I find myself as the organiser of the craft stall at next year's school fair.  Can't say I was surprised.  lol  

As a result I have been op shopping & sewing up a storm...  I have a good bag full of finished object already so I am really pleased about that.  

Peg bag aprons, all from op shop fabric & a really nice table cloth.  Yay!  Such fun.  

Keyring fobs, just for something a bit different & I got the keyring bits a couple of years ago & still hadn't used them.  Perfect!

Another birthday party for both boys this week too.  I was so excited to find this dinosaur panel.  For a 10 year old it is a lot better than the cartoon type designs that start to look too babyish.  So I cut it up & voila, one awesome pillow.  (he was rapt with it too thank goodness!)  

& that is Pillow present #20...  Not too bad for 20 gifts over the last 2 years. 

New Skills

So DJ has been watching me do some stitching.  Just back stitch out line stitching.  He wanted to try.  Of course it's at bedtime that he wants to try these things.  

We did get him started though.  He picked a picture on line of a candy cane.  Just a colouring in page from the internet.  They make great designs for stitching.  

He traced it on the light box & got stuck in.  He did a good job of the little he has done so far...

 

It was nice to get my Christmas tree up again.  This one is mine.  I decorate it & only with my ornaments I have made.  There about 110 on there now.  Doesn't look like it really but yeah, there are.  I love it.