I love to sew, mainly quilts and bags. I am 66, married to Fred and have one son, Matthew, who is 27. I enjoy embroidery and applique and prefer to machine piece and quilt my projects. I love my vintage Singer sewing machines especially my Featherweight 222K. I’m enjoying treadling on my 201K Singer and I collect Miniature Sewing Machines and currently have three Essex , one Singer 20, one Singer 40, two Vulcan Miniatures and my latest, a Grain. My love of sewing I believe comes from my Grandmother - I still have the drawings she made for me to embroider on tea towels many many years ago!

Monday, 27 January 2020

A NEW YEAR .... 2020 ...

Hello!

Happy New Year to all.   I wonder how I will go with attempting to keep this Blog up to date this year... dismal failure for the last couple of years.  😁😁😟

and so to catch up..... where were we?   My goodness, my last Post was back in July 2019 .....

A NEW FARM QUILT IN THE MAKING
A BOY VERSION THIS TIME

CHRISTMAS SEWING ... COASTERS AND NEEDLE NANNIES

THE GIRL FARM QUILT READY FOR PINNING


AT LAST! THE NEXT BLOCK FOR MY HAND APPLIQUÉ VERSION OF LAND DOWN UNDER



TEACHING MY NEIGHBOURS LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER TO SEW

CASABLANCA SUNRISE .. ALL SEWN ON MY 201K TREADLE

2020 STASHBUSTER QUILT

The STASHBUSTER quilt along can be found at BORDER CREEK STATION http://www.bordercreekstation.com/the-stash-buster-challenge-2020.htm



NEW SIGGY BLOCK .. THIS YEAR I’M INCLUDING MY NEEDLE NANNY

MY NIECE REQUESTED A COSY FOR TWO MINUTE NOODLES (RAMEN)
I THOUGHT IT WOULDN’T WORK BUT SHE SAYS IT WORKS PERFECTLY!

CHRISTMAS AT THE MCNAUGHTS

XMAS SEWING.... THE SEVEN PIECE FOLDED  HEXAGON  COASTER



WALKING FOOT QUILTING ON THE FARM QUILT
TRYING THE THREAD POST FROM THE FEATHERWEIGHT SHOP..
FEEDS THE CROSSWOUND THREAD OVER TO THE NEEDLE
SO SMOOTHLY

CHRISTMAS PARCEL... AUSSIE TEE SHIRTS AND NEW PILLOWCASES


CASABLANCA  SUNRISE BLOCK ON THE TREADLE

SET FOR OUR ANNUAL XMAS PARTY

SMOKE HAZE DURING THE TERRIBLE FIRES

CHRISTMAS SHIRTS

GO CUTTING APPLIQUÉ SHAPES

WASHING UP SCRUBBY

A NEW MAKE ... AN ECO FRIENDLY WASHING UP SCRUBBY
2020 STASHBUSTER .. JANUARY BLOCKS
CASABLANCA SUNRISE




The Casablanca Sunrise block is from the magazine QUILT NOW a UK Magazine. Issue 56.

The eco friendly washing up scrubby is a tutorial at HappiestCamper https://happiestcamper.com/diy-zero-waste-kitchen-sponge/. I’ve been using mine since Christmas and it works really well.

The seven piece folded hexagon coaster is also a tutorial https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/inspiration/folded-hexagon-coasters-project

So, as you can see,  I have been sewing.....

Happy sewing!
Cheers from Helen


2 comments :

  1. So happy to see you here , in your blog again! You really have been sewing a lot! hahahaha, Beautiful things1 Thanks for all the links. I wish I had time for more sewing

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  2. Loved seeing you pop up again Helen as I miss sew many of my blogging friends who no longer post...
    You have been very busy sewing up a storm and lots of fantastic projects...
    How cute is that Koala needle nancy...
    Must check out the links , thank you...

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