Wordy Wednesday

Instead of muttering about my bad blogging,

I will just write a photo-heavy post

to give a small indication of what I have been up to....

I have been making things 

for the Church Christmas fair with a friend

(who is now sick of pom-poms!!)

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I have longarm-quilted an old lady's quilt,

that needed quite a bit of TLC to even get it on the machine...

But it has turned out beautifully.

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Miss Kalico has turned 4!

A cake for home: 

Some lovely gifts from friends...

And a cake for the party! 

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I made a little something for a colleague

who loves Lavender...

The Bullion stitch addiction continues

though not as relentlessly as before ;)

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I have made my ornament for the SSCS15...

This one took 2 evenings 

and was a lot trickier than I imagined,

but hopefully it will be well received.

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And I am working on a few secret projects.

This one involves top levels of investigation

in order to correctly tailor the concept to the recipient.

So I am sewing although nothing for me.

I had grand plans to make Miss-Kalico and I

Halloween costumes, but I ran out of time :(

A friend gave me a Halloween costume 

in a rather tiny size. Although I was flattered,

I preferred to leave certain curves and bulges to people's imagination ;o)

Anyway, I will try and blog more soon xx

What I sent - SSCS 2013

Of course the photos of what I sent Chookyblue

are on my dead laptop, but she kindly blogged about it here:

http://chookyblue.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/secret-santa-christmas-swap-2013-sent.html

So if you want to see what I sent click on the link.

I do love a good swap...

I even come out of hiding...

Have a good stretch....

and get sewing! :)

SSCS Gifts Sent

Here is the SSCS gift I made for Janice in Australia...

A folded hexagon bag with every single stitch hand sewn.

I do love my hand sewing!

I attached the handles with ribbon and buttons (also by hand!)

And here is the decoration I made Janice:

A felt heart with buttons hand sewn on ;)

Thank you to Chookyblue for organising the

Secret Santa Christmas Swap (SSCS)!

SSCS Gifts Received

Sadly, it seems that my shiny new camera

seems to have fallen off Santa's sleigh

somewhere between here and the North pole

so I soldiered on with the old camera

so that I could at least say a very big thank you to Fee

from Designs by Fee in Australia,

(And of course, thank you to Chookyblue

for arranging this swap for another year!) 

Abby was very impressed with my gifts! :

A beautiful wall-hanging...

A simply stunning table-runner

with yo-yo's...

A lovely decoupage notebook
and a hexagon needlebook in rose fabrics...

A perfect combination of hexagons and roses!

Thank you Fee, you made the most perfect presents!!