A great Scrap Buster!

My DH and Bear were both away for the weekend. Poor DH was working but Bear was off for a girl’s weekend having fun on the Gold Coast.

So what on earth was I to do all alone while they were away ;o)?

THIS ………… (thanks for holding them down for me while I took the piccy Sophie!!)?

Have you tried these? They’re made using this fabulous tutorial and it’s free - along with heaps of other scrap busting tutorials. They are all by Quiltville’s® Bonnie K Hunter and are so easy peasy. I’ve been wanting to try out these blocks for ages and now I that I have I can see many more will be happening ;o).

I moved my sewing machine into the dining room and put a few pre-recorded shows on the tv and had my very own one woman stitch-in :o)!!!

So now today I’ve had to do this…I’ve cut lots more 2 1/2” squares so they should keep me going for a bit longer :o).

Take 3 ….

As you can tell by the title of this post – it’s not the first time I’ve tried to write it lol. I keep getting waylaid and distracted, but 3rd time lucky they say – well, it will be if you get to see this he he he.
I’ve been a busy beaver – I won’t bore you with the details as most of it is mundane day to day sort of stuff, but there was a fair bit of stitching involved too :o). Wanna see?????
Some Chrissy stuff ……..

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The tree stitchery became this … Some Maverick stars (and I’ve got quite a lot more of these to do too)… Some gifties which I can’t show you yet as (hopefully) they are still sitting under various trees around the place ;o). But I can show you the progress on this one, it’s for my gawjus DIL’s Mum Rae for Christmas. Rae doesn’t read my blog so I think I’m safe to show you :o) … I still have some hand sewing to do as it’s quilt-as-you-go and I’m still stitching down the back sashings, then it’s the binding … then I’m done :o).

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I’m chuffed to bits with this quilt, it’s from a book called Pieced Applique’ by Penny Haren.

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I’ve got another of her books with a different quilt in it and I think I’ll be doing that one too, perhaps for myself. It’s really fun to make these blocks :o).
Oh, and more show and tell – my SSCS parcel arrived from Laura all the way from US!! I’m utterly delighted with my adorable little owl… and I’m telling you right now she won’t be packed away with the Christmas deccies, she’s gonna hang around in my cave and keep me company :o). I haven’t opened the other pressie yet … Bear won’t let me!!! I’m being a good girl :o). Thank you so much Laura – the “wrapping” is a gift in itself and I can’t wait to see what’s inside!!! Love it :o)!!
Speaking of wrapping … I’d better be off and wrap some of those Chrissie pressies hiding under my bed!! Oh, and do some Christmas baking too – YUMMM …