BFF RAL not SAL

 a double change to the plans for tonight, after a missed week that was my drop off due to there being too much going on in my head!

Anyway, we did have a next project planned for this week but I have suggested a change to that and Roni has agreed. We would have been trying something new to us both that looks like it might be quite quick and that I don't anticipate Deborizing. However, as Roni explains on her blog Click here to pop over for that,  circumstances change and so do priorities.

So this week became a RAL (random along) and whilst Roni cross stitched there was still a bit much going on in my head for any complex counting type stuff so quilting tonight.

You might be thinking it would be on my "fan quilt" (LOL that is a working title, not sure it will get that as an official name) but no, I am potentially finished quilting that. It will get its own post a little later once it has a name and a label on it I think, well unless I go madly off  on yet another tangential addition that is.

Tonight it was back to adding quilting circles onto the original bits-a-quilt. It would have been very soothing except my thread was feeling Knotty, yes with a capital letter! It was reasonable soothing as most of the knots came out eventually, otherwise it would have been all caps!

I managed four circles, the picture shows two of them.

One is on a previous added repair patch.

I have during the week done a little bit of sewing on Bits-a-Quilt number three (well sort of five but I count the blue and white one and the white and lilac satin as a separate category as they had colour restrictions imposed on them) and some work on the yellow and white bits-a-quilt which is very close to becoming a top.

But I didn't take pictures of those so updates will have to wait I guess.

With luck and a fair wind we will be both back for a RAL next week.

Sunday Stitching 20.4.2025

 I felt like colour today rather than the shades of brown. So I did some darker pink and the cat gained a little bit more nose in the process.

It looks a bit sad don't you think. 

BFF 17 A finish

 well sort of, all of the stitching part is done. There had to be some variation in the backstitch, Not just to accommodate the variation in the cliffs previously mentioned but because I ran out of the dark grey.

A change to black for the puffin was OK but used some lighter grey in the cliffs,

I would blame the shortage on having to do some unpicking and not being able to reuse the thread, but Roni had similar shortfall issues and she did not have the unpicking.

It is not however, full finished as it is not stuck in the card mount it came with just yet. Whilst I like this mount better than some that have come with kits I won't permanently set it until I know what I am going to do with it.

You can play spot the difference with the cliffs once Roni has posted her update.

There is a link to her blog in the blog list to the left.

We anticipate continuing with the cover kit theme for our next SAL for ease.

Perhaps we will try and plan something a bit more special for our 20th!

A touch of green

 and hearts!

Once again this is not the direction I had intended for this project. However it has evolved as it has progressed and this is the most recent set of design decisions.

Vertical sashing. 

You may recall I considered using this space when originally intending to add the groups names.

And if you don't well CLICK HERE for details.

I had no comments on my intended lettering there but did get some Facebook feed back about not using the vertical space. It was a bit distorting to the lettering.

Still once I had all the horizontal sections quilted, much as I would have liked to have been done, nope it needed more, OK I needed there to be more.

I thought about stars, four stars for Forestella, logical but the length to width of the space was still giving me issues.

Then just as I was thinking about it, and in the same fashion as a new logo appeared when I was just going to do circles, one of the Facebook Fan pages suggested that as part of the push to a million views before the group is once more united as four on a particular song we add an emoji comment of.

💚💚💚💚🍀

hmmm how about using that?

or a modified version 

OK that felt right, but just for the middle of the three sets of vertical sashing rows. 

However the idea of two then something in the middle then two also felt like a solution to the star issue.

I had wanted to add the fandom  name earlier in the process. Across the top alternating with Forestella. 

In this instance while using the Korean for the names had made them the same three batchim in length, Forestella and Soopbyeol  came out as five and two respectively and did not balance

So would the Korean for Soopbyeol work this time.

well I think it does.  As a side note upside down hearts points into the clover works for me, upside down stars pointing inwards somehow did not so they are all point up.

Not decided on the thread colour for the stars yet.

But I have for the Fore together hearts.

Green.

Amongst all that blue a bit unexpected perhaps.

I just happened to have the emoji shade of green in quilting thread (thanks once more to Mrs Jackson) and thankfully I think it is looking OK.

More design decisions as I stitch. Firstly to just outline the single hearts and use the dye pen to make them solidly dark.

Second to do the inner line on the clover as a continuous stich but to form the clover edge in just the running stitch.

For a sense of continuity I now intend to do the Stars the same way but remain uncertain of the lettering will be single strand or outlined.

That decision may depend on the colour and thickness of the thread chosen.

I am still hoping to get the "fan" addition quilting done for the reunion and listening to their music whilst I stitch might even help with getting those million views.

Now I have added the link to the You Tube video we are working towards the million before but I will add it again just in case you are new and missed it before, or you might like to see the proliferation of hearts that inspired me.

 

As a little after thought about blogging. There is a stats facility to tell me how may views by day and month etc. there have been and which countries they are from (and other technical stuff) but I am never that sure when those are real people or an algorithm of some sort. Single country visits feel like they ought to be people but sudden spikes of a few hundred or thousand from one place suggests to me that something computer generated is going on . So for today I have some hope that the one visit logged as being from South Korea was a person but that the 919 from Singapore much less likely. 

The only time I can be sure people read this at all is when they kindly leave a comment. Just a Hi would be nice on occasion.