Yes, 10 weeks to go. Remember I added an additional 2 weeks onto the original 52 week challenge? It has become such a way of life for me now, I am not sure I can be parted with this challenge just yet. I may have to refine it, and make a 52 week finish something challenge, although some of my projects are so big, and week, or weekend, won't give them justice. But I definitely need to do something every week, I cannot slip back into old ways of not creating for weeks on end, I just can't.
I hope I have affected others to do the same thing, or to get creative. My husband is certainly crafting up a storm, his X Wing complete with flashing lED lights and fibre optics is becoming a masterly masterpiece of model work. The kids are also caught up in the model and making frenzy...look at these little artworks they made whilst playing restuarant owner and chef this week " Yes A, I own this place, amazing isn't it?" Says my nine year old to her imaginery friend, then my boy says "Table 5 is waiting, they want a BIG breakfast"....
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| cupcake delight |
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| burger with egg, fries, peas and cupcake to finish |
After a hectic 4 weeks solid of work work work, I am finally on holiday with my two littlies. I have been wandering in and out my craft/sewing space, not quite knowing what to do with my time...so I did a little of everything I could find...
Hexagons - english paper piecing has never grabbed me, until now. Having portable projects is a must, and with a caravan holiday looming, and exile from my sewing machine, hexagons on the go go seemed a perfect choice. I have followed the blogs, the hexagon fanatics, and after whipping up a few of my own can see the joy they bring!
Lucky I have some perspex templates to trace around on freezer paper and also to cut out the fabric. I also found an old stash of 2 x 2 inch squares, so have made myself some to take away...
and then, despite having several crocheted and knitted blankets on the go, well, whats one more?! I have tried this block before in brights but a blue and green sea theme grabbed me...this one will be for the van, I think it will look good draped on a deckchair alongside the sea shore...oh I do love to be beside the seaside, I do love to be beside the sea....
AND if that wasn't enough I bounced off to do some paper piecing or foundation piecing, 4" blocks from my new e-book of sewing notions...
..and sewed them onto Woollies recyclable bags and voila, designer shoppers to give to friends!
Feeling guilty at starting new stuff, when the old is packed tightly all around me, I finally finished my ripple cushion to go with my blooming flower cushion, so the van will look sweet with this pair on the weekend...
...hand "quilted" with premier cotton in long running stitches onto a purple dot shwe shwe backing.
So, that was week 44. Now what shall I do in week 45?
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