1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Thursday, April 4, 2013

A finish



I completed this a couple of days ago but have been traveling backwards and forwards to the coastal country over the last four days. Girls wanted to stay longer with nanny and pa, then one wanted to come home and the other stayed, off to collect again tomorrow.......



I drew this stitchery freehand onto the fabric as I couldn't trace the design with the darker background. Consequently, I didn't measure it properly so it is a little higher/taller than it should be.



I love the sewing machine


And I couldn't resist this fabric for the bottom



Now to think about April's challenge.......oh dear..........

Happy Stitching, Susie

5 comments:

Fiona said...

Love it on the darker fabric...
Hugz

Susan said...

I love the dark fabric too - you know you can try using a tracing paper - like a dressmakers tracing paper or there is another kind - I think its a a Clover Chacopy to trace onto dark fabrics. Handy if you can't draw - like me!

Maria said...

Your darker Pincushion looks lovely.. Well done with the free hand drawing. I couldn't do that.

nimble thimble stitchery-do said...

Very nice...your stitching looks so nice on that dark fabric. Good idea.

Chookyblue...... said...

it looks great on the dark background......I like the sewing machine too.........