Back with the sewing bug...

After the summer break, which I have come to accept means less sewing for various reasons. I tidied my workroom. This can mean one of two things...

1. I find things that have been under my nose, under a pile of stuff, that I have been searching for for some time.
and
2. That I am put off starting anything. What IS it about a tidy workroom that dampens my sewing want?
I have no idea. So I decided to tidy, knowing that I wouldn't sew for a bit until I 'd pulled out a few things to clutter up again. At least the floor would be swept properly.
The "tidy" started because I had a Guild Regional day at the weekend there, my last officially as the Young Quilters Rep. This meant that the resources boxes that I had collected were going to be moving to their new home with the incoming Rep. (slight cheer at thought of making space for the bundles on the floor)
After 3 years of a truly fun role I chose to do a Christmas hanging. 14 YQs came to Perth from all over Scotland

(not my children so I have blurred out faces)

And so the Christmas theme continued. 

This is the back of a part of a fairly large hanging I've been doing. Appliqued pieces all button stitched down, which seemed to take ages and a lot of thread - quicker than by hand tho.

Then with the borders on. It's mostly quilted now and bound, bringing the backing to the front in this case. I have been free machining a bit around the holly and trees - and I think I might put names on the stockings. It's one for the stair wall this Christmas though - due to the fact that as usual I read very little in instruction... hence the reason for cutting the squares to 5" rather the instructed 5 1/2" . Fortunately the length of the cream piece was 40"finished, so 9 and 8 fitted (otherwise who knows).

It is with great relief that I found this post.. I typed it, I post it, I lost it into the electronic ether... what's that about?? Anyway - saved!!

New Slippers

In June one of my groups had a day trip to a beautiful town in the middle to east of Scotland, Linlithgow. It's a really lovely place actually, with a castle, lake, bountiful tea / cake shops and to top it off a Patchwork shop, an embroidery shop and a fabric shop which has really good patchwork fabric.
So needless to say a few purchases were made and stroked.
Including some FILZ-IT wool. A pattern for slippers comes inside the paper ring that holds the ball together. One ball makes one pair of slippers. I wish I had photographed them before washing because for the second but smallest size for No.2 D they were ENORMOUS... proper huge clown shoes even on me. Comfortingly it suggested washing twice if the felting wasn't small enough once first washed - but it worked!!

I also bought some anti-slip iron-on sole thingys in the shape of paw prints. How long they will last, I have no idea but safety first was in play at the start!!

P.S When I say "Even on me" it isn't because I have incredibly large feet - honest - I is tall!!