BFF SAL 16 Fish and Chips and feet.

 It has been a long week at work so far already and I was already feeling tired, so was my BFF but rather than a joint declaration of "lets give it a miss tonight" we both wanted to get started on our next project.

We have been looking forward to this one, perhaps a little too much and the anticipation let to a little bit of trepidation this might become like the last project started with joint enthusiasm to become a chore then cut down to size and a happy finish. Only time will tell.

Not much to show for a start but here it is BFF 16 (wow so many)

and the fish and chips, well tired ruled out cooking and the alternative repast of fish and chips arrived a bit late and had to be eaten during stitching time. Oh the horror of it, so I have dispensation for a little off camera time before next week.

And the socks, grey stripy socks? Well that was my view of the world when Roni put her laptop on the floor as she hunted for an elusive thread.

Shame they were not purple stripes as that would have matched the Quiet Roni design.

Click HERE to see how Roni's BFF 16 has begun.

Sunday Stitching a catch up

 if you have visited before you might think I have made a lot of progress on this today.

That is not the case, this is three Sundays worth as I just did not get around to posting the last two weeks.

Still with the half stitches but not the pale blue, still not seeing that at the moment.

Still a few weeks before it is time for backstitch I think.

BFF SAL 15 all done

 bar the wording in the middle and that will wait till I have something I want to put in there.

the sketch style backstitching my not be my favourite to stitch but I like the way it looks once it is done. It would have gone quicker if I had bothered to get a pointy needle to work the backstitches on the roses. However I was not in a rush and was feeling too lazy to move once I had myself seated to sew.

We have a pattern in mind to start next week, but material type, colour or size that is yet to be decided.

Click here or use the link at the side to see how My BFFs is doing over at Life outside the Washing Basket..

BFF SAL 15 Fighting the greens

 just not getting my eyes to settle here on those greens. But they are all done, indeed all the full cross stitches are sorted and on to the backstitch.

The difference the backstitch makes can clearly be seen when looking at the leaves with and without it. 

I anticipate the roses will be equally improved  I think there is possibly just one weeks work left in this project. 

Other than knowing I don't want to used the lettering from the original pattern for the middle I don't know what I want to put in there so it may well go into my sort of finished pile and get something added once it has an intended purpose.

CLICK HERE to see how my friend's is progressing.

BFF SAL15 The hokey cokey

 I put some green stitches in and then I took them out, in out in out...

 I kept getting my symbols and shades mixed up. At this point all the stitches are in all the right places in the right colours.

Although the camera is telling a slight fib as the roses look more purple and less red in reality.

Click Here  to see what is making my BFF feel like James Dean. 

Sunday Stitchings

 I have been working the pale blue half stitches however, today I felt like something a bit more relaxing so I did some of the fill sections that the pale blue had outlined.

It was very pleasant and made such a difference, the progress is much more visible here. 

The attached song is not what you would call relaxing, the title feels fitting and I find the music compelling.  I might even manage to watch the film at some point.

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Floating blocks an Illusion Quilt

 I have always liked the effect of this pattern and the way it can be used to emphasise the patterned pieces.

It always looked rather fiddly, and I was not sure what I might use.

Then along came TEMU and pretty sets of pre-cuts that sort of floated into my basket. 

I got a few sets of pink, because they were on the offer so very reasonably priced.  I tend to use the mental check mark of would I buy it at that price if I saw it in a charity shop? And if I answer yes then I get it.

I was fairly sure that my very local fabric supplier (in the instance AKA the stash in the loft) had some black and some shade of grey. Indeed that was the case. So following some simple instructions but measuring to the pre-cut blocks  I gave it a go.

It turned out to be less difficult that I had anticipated and even with my interpretation of a straight line I think it produced the desired optical illusion of the pink blocks floating above the grey.

It will join the blue Flimsy waiting for the next stage to becoming a quilt. And would I make this design again? Well I think so, and maybe sooner rather than later as there were a few pre-cuts that made there way into that virtual basket. I could even be tempted to cut up some of my fancy material that has been waiting for the right pattern to show it off, although that might wait till the next question receives an answer.

How to quilt them, well that still requires some contemplation. I shall bask in getting this far successfully for a little bit first. 

BFF SAL 15 a new beginning

 As you may have noticed from the last BFF post I had the threads on a card last week but not grouped.

We had a few moments discussing which was dark and which was light. Mainly because the darkest shades are for backstitch only and the palest of the shades on each (green and purple) are so pale as to be tinted greys. 

Once we had that figured out we made a start, and as usual we each went our own way.

This is my progress for the evening (including two ohps and redo sections) and it was fun. Bitty but fun.

CLICK HERE to see my BFF's progress.

It was funny but until she pointed it out I had not occurred to me that the pattern we have picked is once again by Durene Jones. She does appear to create patterns we both agree on.

Flimsy

 that I see from Facebook groups is the term for the completed patchwork intended for a quilt but not yet sandwiched.

To be honest I have previously most often worked with heavy fabric (curtain weight) so even before quilting flimsy they were not.

However, I have more recently been using lighter fabric and so that tile is more applicable.

I am still in the "want to sew" but not anything complicated. And pre cut stuff is my go to of the moment.

This top is from 2 packs of patterned blue material from Temu. The solid blue squares and the navy blues (the horizontal and vertical are different shades)are from my stash. Some of it is left over bits from the Quilt as you Go blue and white quilt.

I am not sure how I will quilt it, lots of thoughts on that and not even sure if I will hand quilt or machine. There is time as I have a plan to just make flimsies for the moment and then sandwich and quilt later.

I have made a start on the next one and trying out a pattern I have liked but not used before.

Last Sunday Stitching

now that is not last as in final finished and there will be no more , it is last as in this is what I did last week.  Isn't English a joy.

So the plan for last week was to work on the Millennium earth and comet, which ever of the two or maybe even both that wanted to play nice!

I did get it out, I did do some stitching on it. But some really means not much, my eye was not in for the one over one stitching and the subtle blending of shades particularly in the comet was not helping I was getting lost.   So this is how it is looking at the moment, not much difference from the last time.

There was more conference to watch than there was stitching done here so I switched to my normal Sunday stitching project . More half stitches, well in the flow with those on this project.

 

Still in the pale shade that is not the easiest to see on the picture but it is creating jump off points for the rest of the half stitch area so there will be so  nice relaxing just to fill bits.

There weas no stitching at Church today, but that's fine. There is no rush with this project.

I was back in Primary (our Church children's section) to day and our lesson was about how we can be better. So todays Forestella link is for a sone that feels appropriate for both the long termed project and that lesson.  I do like how this sounds in this version.