Pop on over to serendipitous stitching to see what it is all about and find the other participants.
Got this little sew card from my BFF.
This is sew cute and I am delighted with it. It will get to live as a card for a little bit till I get a chance to check the loft for a little frame.
colour as I was on with last week. And the last in this colour completed. Which made me double check the instructions that this should have been two strands, yes that was correct.
Why did I check, well I have so much of this left in the kit I wondered if I had missed something and it was meant to be three strands.
I guess it is a generous kit.
There is not much impact at the moment, some patterns have a slow build up and take time to develop. I am enjoying the process.
dotting about with a few stitches here and there to form the cakes and their toppings was being less than soothing this evening.
But still progress was made. You will recall that I am altering the colours to use up some random threads. This is leading to some interesting colour choices.
At the moment without backstitching and with four cakes to a level it feels a bit gaudy and busy, I am hoping that the backstitch will calm and tone it down.
My mother thinks it looks like a bird cage with lots of little birds in it. I have nine complete cakes, three with icing and no cake, an interesting technique I don't think will work in the real world.
Click Here to see how this SAL is developing over with my BFF.
This felt very much like being at Church but more comfortable. We are not able to travel to the Stake Centre due to my mothers health. But since CV19 pandemic set the pattern for utilising tech and livestreaming via the internet we can still participate.
So why did it feel like Church, well I sit in another room with comfortable lighting and listen on speakers.
Setting the meeting up on lap top for my mother in one room I sat and listened and of course sewed in another room.
So today my stitching were to talks about perfection as a goal not a barrier or requirement. The possibilities of JOY in any circumstance.
As conference is longer than a normal sacrament meeting I got a bit more done. All in one shade which was good for listening.
not quilt Elgar's Enigma but the answer to something that has been puzzling my BFF and I.
The Best Friends Forever Stitch a Long has been about for some time now. We started in 2020 although it has a slightly different name to start click here to see that first post and project.
Since then we have finished 12 BFF SAL projects. Some more joyfully than others. It has not always been easy to find something we both wanted to do at a particular time. Occasionally out shared evenings have been designated to random sewing till we could settle on a joint project.
We have in the past toyed with the option of choosing a theme rather than a pattern, but that was being just as tricky.
However we have now decided that we will add a themed stitch into our BFF Sal sessions, but with a little twist. The Themed stitch will be on the first Wednesday of the month only. What ever project or projects we chose to work on will not be limited to our two hours shared time. And the theme runs till we mutually decide on a different one.
So as you will have guessed we are starting off with Christmas, and within that also a little bit of the single colour stitching we previously found we enjoyed.
My selection is from Cross Stitch Gold issue 123 and is by Durene Jones (fast becoming our go to designer certainly more BFF contributions than anyone else so far)
It is original red on white, but I thought this would look nice white on green. There are four designs in the set, I may do all of them whilst we are on this theme, I may not. They might all be white on a colour, or not. No rules, just some sewing and a lot of chatting.
I started tonight and have all the corners in, which was a relief.
Click Here to see what my BFF has chosen for out first themed evening.
I think that sand is what has been added today. Only worked in the one colour.
it is growing.
So the felting kits Bunny and Cat got me thinking about something I could felt to my own design (mostly) and I was looking for some more colours and bits. Probably due to how much of a bargain the kits were some of the online prices for bits came as a surprise.
which led me to Temu and a set with a nice range of colours, little bits but enough for what I envision and well once you start putting bits in a basket other things fall in with them.
Some out of curiosity more than need or even want to be honest.
A pack of 50 squares in an assortment of colours arrived. On checking there were 51 bits. They were not perfectly cut square but close enough for the price.
I decided on nine patches alternating with bigger squares.
Five of the nine would be from the assortment. with the four being of the same material in the nine but each nine would be a different set of four..
So ten sets of five, sorted into the groupings by my mother.
Ten sets of four, I decided which went with the chosen five and stitched them all up.
I roped my Dad into deciding the layout of the nine patches and bigger squares.
And sewed them up.
Popped on an edge from my scraps (left over from the backing on the sampler quit) and this is the top
Other bits from the same place may well fall into my ordering basket, I have quite a few of the "cut for the 4 squares" bit left.
Starting on the over robes.
starting with red heart white, there is shading to be added. However it is nice to be starting a new section. Still a long way to go, a nice bright light in the dinning/sewing room will be a big help.
Fingers crossed that this spurt of interest lasts long enough to get all the robes done.
I have delightedly realised that the boxes of threads gifted me by Mrs Jackson are numbered Anchor. I did originally plan to restrict myself to DMC light effects and Anchor thread for this one, but colour matching , shading and not recalling I had boxes of Anchor it is more of a what ever goes goes project.
So nice to be back together for a chat (someone's holidays) and sharing other stuff and stitching a bit on the SAL
I was working one area at a time, just to keep the count right and changing needles for each thread change would have been a bit annoying, so I have the "working" colours threaded up.
It is working OK so far. Not added the backstitching as yet so things her could be mistaken for other things, from a distance, well also close up at this stage.
Potentially we won't be working on this next week as we will be starting our 1st Wednesday of the month stitching on a theme and we are starting with the theme of Christmas.
I think I know what I will be working on my BFF is still in the happy contemplation stage when anything is possible.
CLICK HERE to see my BFF's progress...wow backstitching makes so much differance.
I should have posted last week as I finally got started on this new project. Not a cover kit this time but a gift I have been looking forward to starting.
