BFF SAL 19 Nearly almost

 but not! Finished that is.

All the cross stitching is done, just the backstitch to go.

We will both be starting with that next time and contemplating number 20, if not starting it.

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Sunday Stitching June 2025

 After the last Sunday's sewing and my eye being in for the brown, I thought that it would be browns again this week or perhaps back to the purple and pinks.

In fact it turned out to be neither.

This week it was the mid and the lightest grey that drew my eye. I managed quite a bit before suddenly my eyes decided they had quite enough of "seeing" those symbols and colours.

It has made quite a difference to the face of the feline, it has a mouth now and a chin.

Today is Fathers Day, so the talks had a common theme but each had an aspect of the role of fathers  and I rather enjoyed them.

My Father rather enjoyed being gifted a Chunky KitKat by the Primary children.

BFF SAL 19 together again

 yet as always working differently.

Petals finished I am working on the centre from the edge in over.

I expect the middle will be completed next time, however how much mental energy will be available will determine if the backstitching is started at all. 

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Last time she was offering cookies, this week she had choc au pain however, Willy Wonka we are not so there was no sharing via the tech device screens. Sad that!

Oh it is so nice to be wrong

about being wrong.

Apparently I just couldn't follow the pattern down over, as I just kept getting it wrong, but up over and it is all fine.

Weird isn't it but much happier with this now. 

 

Lesson learned I will do from the right into the middle and up for the next quarter space.

BFF stitching time solo

my BFF is on holiday so no get together this week. I had thought if it was a nice bright evening I might try a little bit of the world on Millennium. It rained on and off all day and I lost my enthusiasm for that.

So I thought I would try and pick up Crown Cross from the Vickery Collection.

I had been making good progress, then I came to add the next section middle top left, and it did not fit in.

One of those the count is out but I can't find it moments.

And as I have been trying backstitch as I go well whatever it is it is staying put.

So on that basis I am going to try the section from   the middle far left and work my way up. So far that is working. Either I will reach the out spot and discover I was wrong about the miss count or I will have a design deviation to make it unique.

Not a huge amount added, just the pale blue but even picking it up and doing something feels like an achievement.

and the link, well as I did not get my sunny day I will have a sunny day song to make up for it.

Sunday Stitchings June 2025 eyes of

 blue are done, those little bits of light blue led me to finding some single stitches around the eyes then onto shades of brown.

It was nice to get back to the brown. I had just not been seeing it the last few times. Today it was the purple that did not want to play even though there are a few stitches with the bottom done just waiting on the top stitch ?

I will be interested to see which colour or area is feeling accessible next time. 

And this Forestella link just because it has been windy all week! 

BFF SAL 19 the sunny side

 and no cookies (see my BFFS update by clicking here for an explanation of that comment)

This remained fun and relaxing and sufficient for a somewhat tired mind.

There is a bit more of it than anticipated, we had agreed to stop about half an hour before our usual time. I only had about two inches of thread on the needle was feeling tired and we would swap the sewing for a shared enjoyment of a hot beverage of choice and chat for that last little bit.

That was the plan, but I was tired enough to be a bit on auto pilot, and realised I had without any awareness of it, threaded a fresh length onto the needle and was several stitches in. 

We did manage to stop and chat and for Roni to make some holiday stitching choices.

So there won't be a BFF post for next week, but we might find something else to do/ share for the space.

BFF SAL 19 Needing a rest

 from thinking and making decisions of any sort it was another cover kit that felt the level I could manage.

It is one of the advantages of both my BFF and I subscribing to the same mag, which amusingly enough tends to arrive in the post on the same day for each of us.

So the joy of a kit, everything is there, well except a needle, you used to get a needle but financial issues mean no needle anymore.

I find that funny, as I used to say I end up with so many needles they don't need to do that. Now they don't I am always looking for a needle, I know I have lots of needle cases, but I also have lots of projects on the go with needle living with them.

I am going to be good on this, just for a change I am not changing anything, it might be a strain but I am determined.

Once again although we started in the middle my BFF and I approached this differently, not planned but we did.

 

I managed not to mess with anything and it was a nice soothing stitch, lettering is not usually my thing but this is OK.

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It is interesting to see the difference the surrounding colours make to the lettering.

FORESTELLA Soopbyeol EVOLUTION

 That is the title of this quilt, it is "probably" finished. I say that because it has been "finished" more than once and yet kept evolving.

It started as a simple top to use up some blue squares and some left over navy blue from other projects.

Click here for the starting point

It was supposed to be a practice piece for some free motion quilting.

It was supposed to be quick.

It Evolved from that.

I managed to stay on track with the simple for the piecing.

I managed to stay in plan for the free motion quilting in the squares, however things went a bit off plan thereafter.  I could not be "bothered" to sew around each of the squares, although it is an aspect of bother that applied it just felt boring to hand stich round square after square but at the same time trying to machine it did not feel right either.

It needed some extra quilting and I thought circles at the sashing intersections would be sufficient. At that point the working title of the quilt as fan quilt, referring to the shapes quilted in the squares merged with the other meaning of fan, someone who admires someone or enjoys something very much. 

In my case the Korean crossover group Forestella, who at the point I was thinking circle brought out a new song with its own new circular logo for the group. The idea of using that on my quilt stuck, even thought that changed my simple and quick plan for circles into something considerably more complicated and time consuming.

click here for details of that first fateful design decision

Like the thin edge of the wedge it opened the door to more additions and more and more quilting.

Adding the members names, then the groups name, then more symbols of the group and the fandom name.

click here for details of the names  and the added symbols

My BFF noted that it was growing like my appreciation of the group had, from one short clip of a song on Facebook, to full songs on You Tube to full concerts, figuring out how to make a playlist. Buying CD's (that had to come all the way from Korea) joining fan groups on Facebook to becoming a card carrying member of the official fan group. I even added an app on my phone!

So when I was thinking of what name to give this quilt she suggested Fan Evolution. I an not sure if it was total coincidence or if my fist CD purchase, which was mentioned on this blog was lingering in her mind that she suggested this, but that the first Forestella album is titled Evolution, well!

I had wanted rid of the fan quilt label so using the  Romanised versions of the group and fandom name alongside that album title felt fitting. Both to the quilt and to the journey I have been on with the group and this quilt.

So here it is, and a some what shaky video as it was tricky getting the quilting it to show up well in photos.

And to finish off a link to not just the one song but that whole first Album on their official You Tube.

And I will note that I am posting this today as once more they are able to be together as four. Each is an amazingly talented and skilled individual, but together they truly shine.

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and this is how it all started

Gifted Gorgeousness May 2025

 No Sunday Stitchings today, I was not feeling well when I woke up. My parents were able to go and when they came back announced that there was a gift for me!

Oh a box I do like a box, nice colour and leaves how nice that someone sent me a box.

Oh it has things in it! Wow I was happy with a box.

Sorted the threads into numbered and not

That's a lot of  numbered threads, it is the DMC numbering as evidenced by the 310 Black but I think it is the "other" three letter named number compatible range so that should be interesting.

And lots of random threads to add to my collection of those.

And the wool, well with the permission of the giver it might for obvious reasons find its way to another home.

A nice bit of thread sorting and being able to participate in this months link up with Jo over at serendipitous stitching cheered me up.