Thursday, November 10, 2011

Couple of firsts

While at Mum's today I made a Parkin for the first time ever.
And before anyone says anything it's supposed to sink in the middle


And at home this evening I tried my hand at Shortbread, it turned out well and Mel's DBF found it very hard to keep his hands off it which is why there are a couple missing


And a follow up to yesterday's post about the hats.
The regional TV station went and filmed a piece for the news today which they broadcast this evening so if your interested you can watch it here

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Hats For Heroes

Since July my local wool shop has been collecting knitted hats for our troops in Afghanistan.
I've lost count of how many I've done now but the good news is that as I've opened my email up tonight there was a newsletter update with the absolutely fantastic news that they have now collected 1500 hats.
Granada News is going there tomorrow to record a news item for broadcast tomorrow evening and I may try and get down there for that along with the hat I've got here to hand in.


You can read the article from the local paper back in July here

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

A few beading finishes

These have all been finished in the last month or so but I just haven't gotten round to posting them :(

First up is Night Mare.
I'm not normally one for horses but this just spoke to me when I saw it in issue 83 of Jill Oxton


I made quite a few of these last month 


Another couple of Albion Stitch flowers, the purple one was half done and I decided to I may as well do the last one I had a rivoli for while I was at it


And I made another Tetrahedron.
One of the other ladies on the class didn't have her magnifier with her so did alternate rows to make it easier to see and I like the result so did one the same


Blu each one takes approx 500 delica's to make and a side takes me around 30 minutes.
Julie I'm really tempted to do just that only making it a little bigger so I can put a bell in it

Monday, November 07, 2011

Weekend Stitching

I'm really pleased with my progress this weekend and I managed to get 3 motifs finished


I should be finished later this month so I better start thinking about what's next 

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Mel's Pass out parade

We attended Mel's pass out parade today, she is now a fully fledged adult instructor in the Cheshire ACF and she has her stripes back

Here are just a few of the pics I took today







Well done Mel I'm so proud of you

Saturday, November 05, 2011

CdC update

CdC got a little love last month, both of them did but I've not got a pic of the beaded version to share because I forgot to take one so I'll fix that in the next few days

Friday, November 04, 2011

3D Tetrahedron class

Yesterday I did a class at the bead shop with the lovely Sue Clark who also taught me how to do the reversible triangles (I really need to finish that!) and the open triangle.  

I finished one during the class 


And made a start on the second so I thought I'd walk you through putting one together.
You start off making 4 triangles


Stitch 2 together


Add another one


And then the last one


Then stitch them together


Ta Da your finished 


And then you stitch them together to make your necklace when you've made the amount you want (I just placed them together for the pic which is why they are leaning on the scissors)




Thursday, November 03, 2011

UFO RR

A new round of the UFO RR has started, I do enjoy these and I get to see a wide variety of projects while mine is being worked on.

This is Karen's Queen Anne's Lace as it arrived


And as it left me

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

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

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

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