Inspired Stitches

What a lovely day. And a perfect birthday weekend. I spent Saturday stitching and making new friends and meeting other bloggers with familiar faces. I learnt needle turn embroidery from Janelle Wind, watched Punch needle displays by Rosalie Quinlan and started one of Leanne Beasleys beautiful butterfly doilys. I am all ready to construct my notebook holder but cant believe I didn't get a photo of it amongst my collection so thankyou to the host of bloggers who have posted their photos already enabling me to remember what it was supposed to look like. My one crafty girlfriend is so jealous she wants to come next time so we are both starting to save. I imagine this will be hard because we have so many new things we want to make after seeing all of Melly's spoilers. I need some supplies and I can see that poor Sarah from Quilt Fabric Delight is still recovering she did such a good job and I think she has reaped the rewards. I fear that she will have nothing to sell now for weeks. I need to attend to my house which has been sorely abandoned for three days whilst I have been stitching celebrating my birthday with family and stitching with my friend again. Who says life is no fun

April Finishes

Absolutely soaring through my UFO's currently woooo hoooo. I have finished Misss B's Shaggy flannel quilt ( it is what I would call rustic in design) and her ballerina knited doll. The quilt was a whimsy I started for her 2 years ago because she used to really feel the cold and like to snuggle. The doll was a project a friend wanted to do and I tagged along so we could both learn to knit. It is nothing startling but it is done and I could honestly say that I can knit if required (lets just hope my life doesnt depend on it. It was started last year in September. Next up is Miss B's winter dress STAT!!!!

April

I have only just got around to downloading some photos off my camera and I have been determined my next post would show my darling Miss B's 4 th birthday. Of course now that I am ready blogger isn't playing the game. So this is divine Miss B's cake one toadstool house and fairy ring, and a picture of the beautiful fairy for a day.

This extra photo is of Sir TP's favourite teddy Squadfrey (squashy Godfrey) dressed for school. Sir TP proudly announced that his bear needed to be in uniform to go to school for teddy parade the night before the event so what is a mum to do but to perform a little miracle of love some scraps of felt later and ta da one uniformed bear ready for school.

As for normal wisping well - I have nearly finished Miss B's scrappy flannel quilt, I have nearly finished her knitted ballerina doll and I have started her winter dress ( which is now labelled urgently required we seemed to have turned off the air conditioner and switched on the heater). Easter was quiet and productive. I hope to put some photos up soon of these finished products - hopefully before I get distracted by Inspired Stitches on April 25th ( sshh its my birthday present as it is my birthday that weekend) cant wait to get the project packs.

Easter Swap

How exciting. When I got home from school drop off there in the post box my Easter Swap. Lucky I looked as it is quite warm here today. Inside a lovely package from Christine of Brisbane. My gift came via Germany what a good girl. Christine is on holidays and she finished this little quilt for me whilst there.

So many little triangles and such lovely colours it has already found a home next to my TV with some angels on it. My parcel also had some sweet little lavender eggs which are hanging on our Easter tree and some German Chocolates. Thankyou so much Christine I really appreciate your commitment to the swap having completed this is Germany and posted it from there. It was so nice to get a little something for me. So next I have to concentrate on My Christmas in July Swap no hints this time because Karen might be watching.

March Finishes

These are the girls finished in time for Miss B's party. 10 little Ballerinas one for each little fairy who comes for their lolly bag. This is their class photo some are highly confident but a couple look a little shy there at the back. I hope all the girls love them as much as Miss B does. Back to cooking now - I promise to post a picture of the cake

March Finishes

How fast is March travelling. It is a very busy month for me - Miss B is turning 4 and I have decided to make all her guests a little woollen fairy dolls - I am 1/3 of the way and will show you them when they are finished but here is one completion for March some Easter decorations aren't they cute I wonder who they are for???? We have been away camping and the Clipsal 500 is this weekend so all in all not a lot of crafting time to spend on WISPing but I will get to it soon. I have been enjoying looking at all the very clever OPAM participants and seeing all the different projects being worked on some people are very busy.

Procrastinating - the art of creating WISP's (and a giveaway?)

At the start of the month I showed you the two WISP's I was going to finish. With 5 days to go I am stepping up the pace but feel I will not get my Christmas Stocking finished because I am procrastinating. A ture sign of not enjoying a project is when you realise you have tidied the house and cleaned it and still dont want to sit down and craft. I have also dabbled - defined as starting small projects which I know I can finish quickly as a distraction to the task of finishing the stocking. My other technique for getting out of my cross stitch has been visiting all the blogs of other one project a monthers - I started at A and have made it to G a big effort.Here are the results of dabbling yesterday - a Bluebird of Distraction....
And playing with my new yo yo maker. nI have never liked yo yo's but my tastes must be changing. I bought this Saturday and have had a play. I wish I had bought a bigger one (sometimes size does matter). But these are very cute (photo doesn't do them justice).

Now I need your help - I will do a surprise little giveaway to anyone who leaves me a comment to encourage me to finish my cross stitsh before Feb ends. I need lots of encouragement so please leave a comment.