Weekend project update

Here's my progress over the weekend on Quaker 6, one more motif to go on the right and I'll have reached the bottom

October progress & November goals

For October I said

Get at least one ornament done  Done, I did DBF's

UFO RR Done 

A finish would be nice Done

For November I'd like to 

Get at least one ornament esp since I have an exchange one due

UFO RR

Finish at least one project

I stitched for 92 hours 47 minutes last month, had 5 new starts and 5 finishes 4 of which were new starts

Current PHD Total = 36

Rock making

Yesterday Mel, her DBF, my DBF and I went off to Blackpool for the day and we came across a rock shop that did demo's and we caught one of them just after they had started.

The start of a stick of rock, there are two colours there but the darker one is hard to see.

To the right of the man (out of sight) is the machine that adds in the flavour, we were at the other end to him and there was a brick wall in between it and us but we could hear it :)

Keeping it moving

Making the letters

All the letters made.

Those white lumps are the mix with the flavour added

Wrapping the letters up 

Adding the outer layer, it then going in the machine in the background which keep the main lump moving as he works the smaller bits.

Starting it off

Cutting sweets which were put in a bucket and passed around the crowd watching

The piece I got, it was still warm and chewy

Making the lengths

A better view of  the lump being drawn out

The lengths

Cutting the lengths into sticks of rock

Sticks of rock

The measure/ scissor thing used to cut the lengths.

All the lengths were then put into boxes to go off and get wrapped

For Mum

These have been my recent projects while at DBF's.

The coasters Mum asked me to do a couple of years ago and it took me far too long to get round to them

Every year my parents would take both girls to Northampton for the balloon festival and one year she bought this card to stitch herself.

A few weeks ago Mum was having a sort out and came across it and asked me if I'd stitch it for her so off it went to DBF's to be done as soon as the coasters were done.

TUSAL time & weekend update

Here's my update for the new moon.

This time there are orts from Birds & Bees, the coasters I worked on at DBF's (need to post them), Winter Wingding, Quaker 6, Winter Wonderland, Basket of Apples, UFO RR, Nova, Hot air balloon card (another at DBF's project that I need to share), Mary Wigham, an ornament for DBF and of course various colours of KO and nymo from beading.

I know it's almost the weekend again and I'm only just posting last weeks update, bad blogger!

Pendle Witch country

On Tuesday I went on a coach trip with the WI to Lancashire for the day.

First stop was at Boundary Mill then we headed across the car park to have lunch and in the entrance was a huge fish tank so I took a couple of pics.

Then we got back on the coach for the tour of Pendle Witch country.
It was a wet and miserable day so I didn't get many decent pics :(

Pendle Hill

Replica of Malkin Tower, home to one of the witches

The display in the Discover Lancashire centre back at Boundary Mill after the tour

Pendle Hill from the cafe over a coffee and scone

Weekend project update

I completely forgot to post a progress pic last week so here it is.

Quaker 6 progress Oct 8/9

And from this weekend

Some finishing

I had an unexpected day at home last week so I took advantage of it to get a few things finished finished that have been hanging round for a while and I've not really had time to do.

First is Chocolate Covered Cherries, this was an exchange project over on Needlecraft Haven over the summer and although I finished the stitching almost on time and did most of the finishing it took me until last week to put the ribbon on hangs head in shame

It's a freebie from  Casey Buonaugurio and the backing fabric is in the background

Then I mounted my Christmas Carousel Horse in the card it came with, now I just need to remember to get a frame for it

Then I framed my Sunflower finish from earlier in the year.

And lastly I stuffed and closed this pincushion, I finished the stitching on it years ago and it spent the next couple of years in the bottom of Mum's work box waiting for her to stitch it together on her machine because when I finished it I wasn't friends with mine!

And lastly I want to Thank all of you that took the time to comment or email me about Toby.

R.I.P Toby

Toby left us yesterday to cross the rainbow bridge

Snowman Bauble HD

You may remember me finishing the panels off here here and here and last week I finally got my butt into gear and put them together.

It wasn't until I went looking for th epics that I realised just how long it's been half done, I know it was over 12 months since I finished the last ones but I didn't realise it was 2 years since I started it!!!

So I went from the seperate panels in the links to this

to this after I'd done the netting round the top.

When I took it show Mum and told her I wanted to get some of that stuff you drape on the Christmas tree to put in the bauble because it didn't look right she handed me various bags with angel hair in so I used up the last bit of the gold she had and it suits it perfectly don't you think.