Catching up with UFO's

Well, well, where is the time going - it's all merging into one continuous Covid-19 blur.

Not too much happening in the sewing room, but I have been working on one project:

Working on my Cross-Stitch - now doing the outlining/backstitch details - it is slow going, but quite satisfying with each section I finish.

I also completed some blocks for Cherish Do.Good Stitches - easy strip sewing LOL 

Well that's it for my WOOFA update :)  see you all next month!

Working on a bit of decluttering, but not ready to share photos yet LOL

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May WOOFA

Well that month disappeared into the blink of an eye!  I did manage to work on a few different things over the month:

Continued with the backstitching on my Cross-Stitch

  

as it stood in 2010

Made another block for the SAQG Mystery Box Quilt

not happy with 2nd block - will reposition colours

Finished another stitchery for the "Love & Hugs from Australia"

I must confess, I am not happy with the marker I have used, it has not washed out as much as I thought it would, so I will experiment with a Frixion Pen for my next one 😙

Hope you are all safe and Covid-19 free 💕

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April WOOFA

Well, another month of lock-down, with only 1 trip out of the house each week for grocery shopping :)

Working on finishing a cross-stitch started in 199-something - that long ago, I can't remember.  There is only the back-stitching to do, so it is nearly there :)

The fingers got a bit crampy working with the hoop, so I switched to another UFO of hand stitching :)  Working on a Gail Pan design - Little Bird Sewing Set

Finishing off another UFO

Then .......... thanks to my lovely Bloggy/Facebook quilty friends, I discovered a group of Aussie designers have shared some beautiful designs for a stitch-a-long in a Facebook group :)
yeah, I know, I shouldn't really be starting anything new, but I was so inspired by what I saw on my quilty friends' blogs :)

I grabbed the first threads I could lay my hands on - red variegated - and started stitching.  In the end, I had about 4inches of thread left, so I just made it! 

I ransacked my sewing room and found a box containing threads that were received as part of the swap group I used to run called 'Fat Quarter Swap Australia'.  Each month a group of us would swap 2 Fat Quarters and sometimes there were some extra embroidery threads in the pack :)  I didn't do stitcheries back then, but I kept them thinking they might be useful one day LOL.

I have been well and truly bitten by the stitching bug - here is the next stitchery I have started :)

I am not that good a stitcher, but I have enjoyed the slow steady pace of stitching, and as I need to sit at the desk with a magnifier, that means I am not spending time on the computer, which for me, I feel is a much better distraction than reading news stories and facts & figures on Covid-19 :)

you can find the group on Facebook  Love & Hugs from Australia Stitch-A-Long

So all in all, a satisfactory amount of progress on some of my UFOs/PHDs (UnFinished Objects/Projects Half Done) for the month of April.

Thank you Cheryll for WOOFA, and many thanks to the 'Love & Hugs' designers for providing such wonderful designs :)

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FNSI - Friday, 17th April 2020

We are slowly adjusting to this 'stay at home, stay safe' thinking ...😷

So far, I have only been out once this week to do the grocery shopping.  We still hadn't been able to get toilet paper and things would have been quite desperate at the end of this week, but a friend was able to get some and made a quick 'pit stop/drive-by' to drop some on the front door step 😌

I have spent a bit of time in the sewing room, finishing off some 'rainbow stripes' for CHERISH do Good Stitches charity bee - this will have to wait till the next time I am out of the house to be posted.

FNSI (well in the afternoon) was quite enjoyable working on a UFO

... a bit of Port, chocolate and something to keep the hands busy ... what more does a girl need 😉

This cross stitch will count towards my April Woofa Challenge.

I was quite relieved to read that South Australia is doing particularly well with 'flattening the curve' and I do hope that some restrictions can start to be lifted some time during May 💕

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Catchin' Up and Workin' on some UFOs

It has been really hot here in Adelaide over the last week, and with Mr Fixit returning to work, I was able to sit down and catch up on my 'stories' - The Young and The Restless & Bold & Beautiful :)

I can tell you, I really thought I was having a few "early senior's moments", when I was watching some episodes of Y&R that were recorded Christmas Week - some things did not make sense ?? - I think they were screened out of order - either that, or the continuity people really mucked up!!   Then, after having a marathon session of catching up - several episodes later, the show jumps straight into Chelsea going into labour!  What happened to the previous 6 months?    the last episode I watched Chelsea had only just had her first scan ...................  I must confess, I rang Mr Fixit to check if he had 'accidentally' deleted some episodes and forgotten to tell me :(

Anyway ............ it turns out Mr Fixit was not to blame, and I was not having an "early senior's moment"  ............. Arena had in fact screened an episode out of order :(  A TV Blog I regularly read posted all about it HERE

Anyway .......... onto what I have been working on whilst staying cool and watching my stories :)


Finally getting the backstitching done on my Cross Stitch which was started in the 90's
I must be getting old ...... now I need my glasses AND my magnifyer to see what I am doing :(

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