Dress sewn on the machine. Pom pom trim sewn by hand......not something I will be repeating any time soon.....lol. That skirt must have been a mile round.
After the storm we had yesterday we have woken to blue skies and sunshine this morning with a gentle breeze. Honestly you couldn't make up this weather if you tried. DD and I nipped out last night to do a small stock up shop and were pleased to see that some of the work done along our country lane earlier in the year has helped with the flooding problem. There was still some water laying but nowhere near as bad.
I think I was too early for the reduced stuff but I did get a huge bag of brussels for 48p....whoopie flippin' doo.
Need to have a bit of a tidy up today and I think I might put some of the Christmas decs away as I am getting a bit fed up of them now. The tree will stay up until Monday....the day after DD's birthday as is our tradition and then I can have a good ferret in the corners with the hoover and duster and that will be that for another year. It's gone so quickly.
Tonight I will use up the last of the turkey and make a pie for hubby and DD. I can't face any more so I will be having a spinach and feta salad with balsamic dressing and a crusty roll.....lovely.
We don't make much fuss or party on New Years Eve so we will probably see the new year in and then trot off to bed. Tomorrow we will all do our own thing and just have a quiet day.
Happy New Year to you all and hope that 2016 is a better year.
Love and Hugs.
Sheila-x-
I'd been wanting some USA themed fabric for a long time.....and look what DD found for me. I was one happy crafter I can tell you. Again I don't know what I am going to make with it but at least it is in my stash when needed.
It's miserable here today. Very windy and a drizzly rain. Hubby and I were going clay pigeon shooting but I think not in this. Instead we may have a wander up to the garden centre just to get us out of the house a bit. I need to clean a couple of windows first though so we'll maybe do that this afternoon.
After much nagging I made the meatball casserole for tea last night. I made a huge pot which fed three of us amply and had enough left to make up five portions for lunches. If we are going out today I think we'll just have hot dogs for tea.....proper sausage ones.....I don't do frankfurters.........with slow cooked onions and we'll have that in the stonebaked rolls we get from Lidl.......oh yummy.
I tried out my new Clover iron yesterday....I am impressed and very glad I bit the bullet and purchased it. It will be amazing when I'm pressing blocks for quilts.
Well that is me for today. I'll go and get busy now I have had my coffee.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-
My daughter knows me so well. These are two of the fabric collections she gave me for Christmas.
The top one is very unusual. It's like a fine hessian and the printing on it is beautiful. I'm not sure what I will make with it yet. It has to be stroked and admired for quite a while before I take any scissors to it....lol.
The second collection is Winterberry by Moda Fabrics. My heart nearly stopped when I opened this. The colour combination is divine. Again I don't know what I will make with it although I suspect it will be a quilt.
Tomorrow I will show you the rest.
Well it's back into the swing of the domestic duties today. I have washing washing and drying drying. There is cooking to do and a bit of hoovering. After that I will probably start on another sewing project for the doll as I have loads of fabric to use.
It's sunny out but there is no breeze today so I have resorted to the tumble drier for the laundry.
Are you all getting back into the swing of things?
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-
I do love going out for a while but boy is it nice to get home again.
We had quite a good trip in to Derby this morning but by the time we came out a couple of hours later the roads were heaving.
Still, we are back home now having a nice cuppa.
Since getting home I have discovered that at Hobbycraft I was overcharged for an item and that I wasn't given my change. I should have added my things up myself before I got to the tills so I am partly to blame.
They didn't have much of a sale on as far as I could see apart from Christmas stuff and I wasn't spending my Christmas money on that so I ended up with a new sewing box, a Clover iron, some funky foam, tacky glue, fray stop and spare bobbins for my sewing machine. Oh I am a fibber.....I did buy a pack of gorgeous Christmas cupcake cases reduced to £1.50.
Now I am sorting out the stuff I want to keep in my sewing box and resting my aching legs.
Thanks for dropping by today.
Sheila-x-
Have you ever started something and wished you hadn't? Well that is me today. I made a beautiful circle skirt and matching top for the doll. It was fine as it was apart from a little glitch on the shoulder seams. I decided to hand sew mini pom pom trim around the top to hide it and then thought how nice it would look around the skirt hem.........big mistake.....huge. There is what seems like miles of hem and I am slowly losing the will to live. I am half way round. Too late to turn back so I have to carry on now but I won't be making that mistake again.
Going a bit stir crazy now being indoors so DD and I might have a trip to Derby tomorrow. There are a couple of things I need from HobbyCraft. I have a clothes store voucher to spend and am in need of some new t shirts so I'll go and see if they have anything left in the sale......I'm not usually very lucky with sales but we'll see.
Today has been another easy day although we did have our Boxing Day lunch of roast beef which was lovely. I have no room left for any tea though.
Well back to my sewing. I am dtermined to get this finished tonight.
Bye for now.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-
