I Just Had To Have It!

No, not Ralph, Austin and Paris' puppy. 

Although he is gorgeous! 

You all needed some puppy spam, didn't you!

It was this beautiful vintage doily. 

Marina from Maisie and The Boys recently shared a doily

 she bought off ebay (you can see it here). 

Hers has a Scotty dog on it. 

So I had a look and came across this one.

I just love it.

 It's not often that I will just buy something because I love it. 

But I just HAD to have it! 

It has been well looked after. The back is so neat. 

I haven't been doing a lot of stitching lately. 

What I have been doing is making myself a dress! 

 I haven't made a dress with a zip in over 40 years. 

 

I learnt to sew at school and then did proper dressmaking 

classes at night when I was about 16 (I think). 

I didn't really enjoy making clothes until I had the boys. 

I made them windcheaters, tracksuit pants, shorts and tops. 

I loved sewing for the boys and there were no zips! 

 

I'm still not convinced I like dressmaking. 

There's a lot to be said about going to a shop,

 trying on a lovely dress and buying it! LOL!

I'll show it to you once it's finished.

Friday Night Sew-In

Last night I stitched along down at Mum's place. 

Yesterday was the third anniversary of Dad's passing. 

We would often go to Mum and Dad's on a Friday night 

and have fish and chips. So Noel, Mitchell and Steph, 

Austin and Paris and myself went down 

and ate our dinner and watched the footy.

This is my fourth project from my Tilda Christmas Mystery Box. 

It is Little Christmas Bird table runner by Gail Pan. 

Just a little progress was made last night.

Thank you to Wendy for hosting us last night.

You can see what others got up to here.

 

 

Happy Hearts Gift Bag. 

It is another project from my Tilda Mystery Christmas Box 

from Dawn at Kitty Rose Cottage.

This was a fun little project and I'm sure I'll make more.  

I altered mine a bit so that the casing was higher up making 

more room to put more goodies in! 

A Christmas Jewel

I finished my Christmas Jewel decoration 

but decided it needed something.

Looked through my stash and found this braid.

It was just what was needed.

I really enjoyed making this little project.

Will definitely be making some more of these.

 

Friday Night With Friends

 

Last night decided to start a new project just because I can!

My Christmas Jewel decoration. 

It was one of the projects I got in the Tilda Christmas 

Mystery Box from Dawn at Kitty Rose Cottage.

The fabric on my left is my favourite!

Doing the prep work.

Prep all done.

Time to start sewing it together.

I got the first two sides stitched together last night. 

With a bit of luck I'll finish it today.

Thanks to Chez from Gone Stitchin' for hosting us last night.

You can see what others got up to here.

 

OPAM 2022

 

 I've signed up to One Project A Month with 

Kris from Tag Along Teddies again this year. 

I first signed up in 2012 so that makes this my eleventh year! 

From the beginning till now I have had 483 finished projects.

January finish - Hand towels,

February finish - "To Sew Or Not To Sew" cube.

 

Many thanks to Kris for inspiring us again this year.