Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2018

Time for a bit of fun, hopping  around the participating blogs collecting the letters, figuring out the word or phrase to take back to the beginning, which is also the end and see if you can win the treasure at the centre of  Jo over at serendipitousstitching. s anual Easter Eggstravagansa

Given we are hopping I am going with a bunny again this year 

It is a cover kit from Crazy, the grass is in one strand the bunny and watering can in two. They were fine to do (well it did have in the middle of the stitches backstitching but it looks so caracterful that was forgiven), but the sky, half stitch in either two or one strand of the same shade of blue and my eyes just got totally and utterly lost on the colour pattern.  Half stitches require rewiring of my brain trying to work out were to go and how to get back so differently from the full cross stitch.  So I will tell you a secret...Shsss just between you and me.....

I said ah! fed up with this, gave up even trying to follow the pattern and just lobbed in random stitches till the space looked sort of filled.  I will probably get away with it as long as the designer (Margaret Sherry) is not participating, she would be sure to notice.

The frame is almost the letter you need but my wonderful (or not) camera skills have flattened it out a bit so I shall make it a bit smaller and clearer.

Now you have my letter off you hop to 

Barbara 

at

The Flashing Scissors

Good luck and Happy Easter

A little bit of grey

was completed this week. So the Pac Man mouth remains till I get back to doing tan.

in addition I have been working on my stitch for the Easter Blog hop this year.  However you will have to wait till Easter to see that.

Moving forward

with this little stitch, I was going to do the greys and white but for some reason that did not appeal to me today so started the brown.

that looks like a big mouth...

Janome 120

aren't little things cute

don't they call out to be taken home and loved?

last time I spotted a little sewing machine in a charity shop I resisted womanfuly.

Shortly after another blogger posted she had optimistically purchased a mini machine.

Pop over to finding flapjack to see that one.

And I wondered if I had let a good opportunity pass me by.

Later again one of the quilting group ladies bought something similar new hoping it would be one she could use (her daughter having borrowed hers on a mostly permanent basis) and that would be light enough to carry to church.

We could not get it to work properly, oh it stitched but the stitches just pulled back out , reminded me of a toy machine I had as a child that was equally useless for sewing stuff together.

I felt better for having resisted as the one I had seen looked more  like that one than the rounded mini marvel at finding flapjack.

So today there it was a little machine in the Alice House hospice shop.

This one had a name I knew from many a post on many a Facebook quilting page.

It had the pedal, it had the  power adaptor, two spare spools (and one in the machine) and a bobbin of Gutermann thread.

Should I?

It would be light enough to carry places.

you know I did it, bought it and indeed it was light as I carried it all the way home (in the snow).

It works just fine, it does straight stitches in four different sizes and three sizes of zig zag and the needle can be adjusted to the left.

I am happy with my purchase, it has a footprint smaller than a box of  man sized hankies. (now there is a size reference that has ceased to have relevance as the term is no longer in uses, since I originally posted this so I guess I shall have to make the effort and measure , so 16 by 31 centimetres is the size of the box of everyone sized hankies, I visualise better with things rather than measurements.  Which does not bode well for my quilting but I manage)

I see a project making a bag for it in my very near future.

Oh I almost forgot, it was £6 .

Chuffed!