Tilly's Life

 

 I have finally finished my 

"Tilly's Life" wall hanging.

 

There are 121 different Tilda 

fabrics with no repeats.

 

The stitcheries are from the Heartstrings 

quilt by Natalie Bird. 

It will hang on the end of the wardrobe 

in my sewing room and

I will see it every time I walk past. 

 I am so pleased with how it turned out. 

Scrub Stitchin' 2025 - Part 2

 

 Sharmayne and I planned to work together to 

make coats for our rabbits as our main project.

Maybe it was just us but we found them quite tricky. 

After working on them all morning, we got to 

the collar and bias section. We just couldn't work 

out the next step and it was doing our heads in. 

At about 2.30pm I said we needed to put it away 

and come back to it in the morning.

 

I got up next morning and found a tutorial online. 

What a difference that made. 

Watching a video was much easier to 

understand than the written instructions.

 

 So apparently we were making a tailor made 

coat, only in miniature!

Finally, the coat was finished.  

It only took about 12 hours to make! LOL!

If I had been at home working on this 

by myself, I think I would have given up.

 Needless to say, 

Rosie will only ever have one coat!

Hector admiring Rosie and Tilly's coats.

I also put my Heartstrings stitcheries together 

to make a wall hanging for my sewing room. 

It is so much prettier in real.

There are 120 different Tilda fabrics with no repeats. 

I hadn't realised how many different fabrics 

I had and there were a lot more I didn't put in. 

And now I've added more to the collection 

on the trip up! Oops!

 

I also got the borders put on my 

Little Christmas Bird table runner.

Rosie and Tilly enjoying the show and tell.

I hope you've enjoyed reading 

about our Scrub Stitchin' adventure.

I'm already looking forward to the next one!

Rosie and the Easter Bunnies!

Easter lunch with the family, 

our first with little Kade. 

Missing Nelson and Chloe 

as they are away camping.

A Tilda Swap And A Stitchalong!

  

I recently took part in another Tilda Lovers Club swap. 

We had to make our partner a wall hanging, 

table runner or table topper. I made this wall hanging for Fiona. 

This isn't a good photo as the colours aren't showing up 

as nice as they are. I used Woodland range of fabric.

This is the table runner I received from Natalie. 

Natalie used the Maple Farm range.

Week one of our Windy Days stitchalong was announced yesterday. 

I'm all set for project number one.

 

We were able to do all our stitcheries in advance of the

 stitchalong which was great. Now all we need to do is put 

our projects together when Fee presents each project. 

I just have to finish my last stitchery. 

The stitchalong goes for 10 weeks and 

we have lots of different projects. They are all 

a mystery until our weekly chat with Fee!

Friday Night Sew-In

 

I have finished my "The Happy Stitcher" by Natalie Bird.

 

Don't you just love the colours!

 

I have the perfect spot to hang it in the sewing room.

 

Thank you to Wendy for hosting us last night.

Catching Up!

 I finished my "House Rules" stitchery a few weeks ago but only 

just got around to framing it. But I'm going to have to take it out as 

the fold line is still showing. Hopefully, I can get rid of it. 

The pattern is by by Leanne Knell of Petals and Patches.

 This is the prize pack I won from Toni Alexander at the

 Red Boots Gang a little while ago.

 For Mother's Day, Mitchell got me this book (he made have had 

a little help!) by Toni. There are so many lovely things in it.

 I have started a new hand project, "The Happy Stitcher". 

I bought the kit at the recent AQC.

I've also started preparing for a new baby quilt.

Last Saturday, Noel and Nelson headed off on the trip of a life time. 

They are walking the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea. 

The trek is 96km of rugged terrain and they finish the trek on Monday. 

We don't have any contact with them but the tour company has been putting

 daily reports on facebook. They seem to be going well 

but I'm looking forward to them getting home and telling us all about it.

Well, that's a bit of a catch up here at MacDonald's Patch. 

Hopefully, I'll have some great photos of Noel and Nelson's 

Kokoda trip to share with you.