IHSW

Most of my stitching time this weekend was spent stitching a piece for an exchange coming up so I can't show you that yet. I did manage to put a couple of stitches into Trio of Poppies.

The majority of the overall progress since you last saw this piece was stitched before IHSW.





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Minecraft pillow

I'm on a roll, 3 completed sewing projects in a month!

My younger brother has the minecraft bug which is a game where you build your environment using blocks. For his birthday I decided to make him a cushion featuring a well known character, Creeper. If you get too close they start fizzling and will eventually explode so it's best to avoid them especially if they're near any areas you are developing.

Anyway, enough of the waffle....

I did not use a pattern for the face...I'm very proud of myself. I did however use sewing instructions for an envelope cushion cover from ikea.

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A Q-snap cover

I bought my mam a Q-snap for Christmas as she admired mine so for mother's day, I made her a cover.

I made it using a free tutorial. All tutorials for this project give the same calculations for working out the measurements but when making my own a while back, I discovered it was about 1.5-2" short for my Q-snap. For my mam's I decided to lengthen it and in the end it turned out better than my first one. I might have to make a couple more.

I've gotten further on with the poppies compared to the above photo but that will be for another post.



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Teapot cosy

I've had this and another sewing project cut out for a couple of days but only got around to sewing them up yesterday morning. The other project can't be posted yet so here's what I can show you.

It's the teapot cosy from issue 57 of "Sew" magazine.

It says to use the same pattern piece for the outer fabric (they suggested cotton) and the lining, fleece recommended. My only issue with this was that once sewn together the fleece was a little bit on the bulky side compared to the outer fabric. If I was to make another I'd scale the pattern down by a small amount for the fleece and see how that works. It still fits well over the teapot.

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A crazy finish

The stitch that I was doing for my friend is finished and is part of one of my crazy challenges.

I'm sorry that I didn't take any more daily progress photos. It is from The World of Cross Stitching issue 203.

I changed the sun's face from smiley to sad as my friend was leaving work.

IHSW

Well for this IHSW I continued with the project I've been working all week. It's a cupcake design from WOXS for a friend.

As people were curious on my progress after doing some of the border I decided to take a photo every day so here we go...

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The idea of taking a photo a day (providing I stitch daily) is a good idea especially for HAED's. As looking at the progress has been great.

Blue skies

I can see the end! I've completed another section of sky. It's such a lovely day here as well, I do love to stitch in the sun. Just one more poppy head, last section of sky and the beading to do. Fingers crossed this WIP of 2 years will be finished this year.

Sadly, I won't complete the challenge of no new starts until this is finished as I have a small cross stitch to do for a friend. After those 2 are finished I think I'll make a start on the wedding sampler. 

I have more lovely fabric on the way, some for a dress and the rest for the travel duffel bag I'm itching to get started on. Just need handle fabric and the jute webbing (finding 3.5" wide jute webbing has been a bit of a pain).

Have a lovely week everyone!