As yesterday was the first Friday of the month, Cheryl over at Gone Stitchin’ was once again hosting Friday Night with Friends. FNwF is a virtual sew-in similar to FNSI hosted by Heidi and Bobbie on the last Friday of each month. And since I already had a project I wanted to work on, I signed up to sew…
Last summer, I bought a couple of little hexie kits from Sew Sisters shop in Toronto. And while I discovered that I enjoyed the process of making hexie flowers, I did not like the finished flowers themselves. Here’s one of them: Oh how I wished those pink hexies with the bold prints had been fussie cut. Now I realize that…
I am pleased to say that this month’s FNSI was a success. I set out to finish embroidering the flowers on the blue bird panel and I succeeded in doing just that. The embroidery/quilting on both bird panels is now complete and it’s on to adding the beading. To make FNSI even more successful, I managed to get the second…
Dave and I are off on a new adventure. Last week he got confirmation that a contract he’d been hired for in Petawawa, ON was a go. Sunday morning, we packed up and headed east and then north. We were driving along Hwy 41 N, when Dave pulled over quickly so I followed suit. At first, I thought something was…