When unpacking the goods for the last hospital auxiliary stall at the beginning of the month I noticed that there was a shortage of - I should say - no pot holders for sale. So when joining in last night with FNSI it was all about cutting out pot holders so there will be some for the September stall in a couple of weeks time. 4 pot holders were cut from each of the three fabrics.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
FNSI
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
The Production Line is.........
Back in business. This time making skirts for 10 year old girls. When handing over the 101 library bags last week I offered to sew up some skirts and was handed this bag which contained 15 skirts already cut out and ready to go which makes it a much quicker job.
Happy sewing all
Saturday, August 2, 2025
A Rainbow of Library Bags and FNwF
During the week the casings were sewn around the last of the library bags that were the subject of my last post and when joining in with FNwF last night they were turned right side out and now ready to deliver.
Below is a photo of the 101 library bags that were made throughout the year using the RSC challenge. They are stacked up in order of the colour that was nominated each month starting with pink on the bottom with it being the January colour and working up to July's colour purple. The 13 bags on top are the odds and sods colours that do not fit into any of the colour categories nominated.
Happy sewing all
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The Library bag........
Production line is back in business again. The mammoth task of packing will begin in early September again for Network Heaven and the small part that I play is to make some library bags. Over the last 7 months I have been using the RSC colour each month to make library bags and seeing that time is getting closer to handing over the bags any fabrics remaining in one of the cupboards to be cut and sewn up were collected and the production line started.
So far they have been put through the overlocker.
Happy sewing all
Saturday, July 19, 2025
FNSI
Hubs and I went out to lunch yesterday for Christmas in July
Happy sewing all
Thursday, July 17, 2025
All caught up....
With the posts from my interim blog. Now that I am back on track what other things have been happening. Miss M stayed with us for a couple of days last week and seeing that the weather played nicely we decided to make it a "nature" holiday. First up some whale watching from Long Reef headland....but no whales this day. She enjoyed scanning the horizon with a pair of binoculars.
Happy sewing all
FNwF (4th July post)
Was on again last night which gave me the opportunity to finish off an order for two heat packs. The recipient wanted a "normal" size one which is 8" x 22" finished and requested a bit bigger one being 10" x 28" finished as they wanted to fit around the base of their back.
Mission accomplished.
(NB hand written lables as windows 11 would not recognise my printer.....grrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh).
You can see more accomplishments here.
Catching up (June 28th Post)
I have been a bit remiss on posting this last couple of weeks so it was time to catch up with happenings in the sewing room. Seeing that the weather has been rather chilly this past week it has been a good opportunity to spend time finishing off items that have been around for a while. First up 5 bibs were ticked off the list.
Three small quilts that were at various stages of construction are now finished. It was too cold and windy to photograph them outside.
There is another bigger quilt that is waiting to have the binding sewn down and that then then be called a finish.
July's RSC colour is PURPLE . Time to get out with the purple scrap basket and make a start on a purple potato chip block.
FNSI and a challenge was issued......20th June post)
By my Saturday quilt group. Each year we have a Christmas in July challenge but it was decided to change it around this year and have a French theme to coincide with Bastille Day. Anything could be made as long as it was French related.
As our July meeting is approaching it was time to make a start. A rummage through the stash revealed these two fat quarters.
Now to make something from this limited amount of fabric. Thinking cap on and the result is
A new beginning (June 5th post)
Last week I upgraded my computer to Windows 11 and a problem has arisen where I have not been able to sign back into my original blog Karen's Korner so it was decided to start Part 11 and maybe in the near future I will be able to figure out how to transfer my blog from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Tonight is FNwF but due to the time spent on getting back into the various sites and re-entering all the required passwords - all has been successful with the exception of my blog - so as a consequence not much has been happening in the sewing room this week.
I will however be visiting those who do take part tonight to see what they have achieved. You can also catch up on their progress here.
Back soon and in the meantime
Happy sewing all
UPDATE
At last I have been able to get back into my original blog after a few weeks of frustration since upgrading to Windows 11. This was only achieved by hooking up my old computer again so I guess I am only "kicking the can down the road" as it has not solved the problem of being able to access my original blog while using the updated version of Windows. Hopefully I will be able to solve this problem in due course but in the meantime I am going to transfer the posts from another blog that I had set up in the interim.
Back soon and in the meantime
Happy sewing all
Friday, May 23, 2025
Happenings
A lot has been happening in the sewing room due to the constant rain that has been falling. The view from our bedroom balcony over the past weeks has been this
So while all this has been happening outside I was inside my sewing room, warm and dry, beavering away finishing off a few items that should have reached the finish line a while ago but have not. First up a blue bib
Happy sewing all
Friday, May 9, 2025
A bit of this......
And a bit of that happened this week in the sewing room. First up was one green potato chip block
Happy sewing all