Sewing up a storm to get ready for cruising.

This is only a short post and will be devoid of pictures because blogger will no doubt throw a hissy fit if i try to do anything quickly.

Anyway...this week has been full of sewing new skirts and blouses to wear on my cruise and staying warm until I leave. It's been very cold down here and my back is giving me a hard time. Plus I am almost out of internet hours for the moment and cant buy more til after the cruise so will be incommunicado for a couple of weeks.

Also, I taught a friend how to do paper pieced hexagons on monday. She's going backpacking in London in July and wanted a project she could to anywhere. It was quite amusing. I made her the little Origami bag I wanted to try and filled it with hexi fabric and papers, pins, paper clips, cottons and a few spare needles as well as needle threaders and she got so excited.

Anyway, back to my sewing. Will post pictures of clothing and cruising in a couple of weeks.

Pictionary

In 10 days I'll be going here (New Caledonia)..

on one of these...

where I'll be doing some of this..

and this..

some of this and...

and this. I might bring..

one of these.

Amazing what you can fit in a 500g postage bag

Now that uni is over *jumping up and down* I was able to go through my baskets and unearth some things to send to QLD for the flood affected. I have 2 baskets, 1 on of WIPS and 1 of finished projects.

So I pulled out the finished basket and sorted out what was to be sold (bags mostly and table runners) and what is to be given away. Normally I work on throws, scarves, beanies, gloves and socks for my local Vinnies group but when I heard there was and appeal for scarves and beanies in QLD I figured I could send a little further.

I removed the blankets from the pile and then squished as much as I could into the post bag. Thats what I ended up with.

Also yesterday I made myself a new outfit. A black flippy skirt and a purple scoop neck tank to take on my cruise. Havent taken a picture yet but I will when I'm all dressed pretty.

Am determined also to finish that darn doormat I started. The rain is making my nice clean floor all wet when people come in. sad :(

Another finish - Denim stacked coins

Sometime last year I asked at an alterations place for any offcuts they had. I went through the bags they gave me and unearthed a heck of a lot of denim. After trimming off the bits I couldnt use (and letting it sit for 6 months so it was an appropriate UFO) I finally sewed it all together and thats what I ended up with.

It is not going to be padded but am still undecided about backing it because it is to be donated and is already quite heavy and I like the denim look on both sides.

My very own Jelly Roll Race

This is what took 2 hours of my time this afternoon when I was procrastinating from studying.Nice and simple. Definitely gonna be a few more of them in the future.

Alphabet soup.

I just posted a nice detailed post with the results of my crafty weekend and of course blogger ate it. So in short... I finished 4 of the 7 WIPs I had going and also started and finished two scarves. And I cant even post pictures or send you to the link of my next project. sad :(

I HATE BLOGGER!!!!!!!!!

FNSI to do WIP for OPAM

Were you able to decipher my alphabet soup?

Last week I did the Friday Night Sew In but didn't get anywhere near as much done as I wanted to because a friend came by and we were catching up. Typically I would have finished more things on the Saturday but of course I spent the whole day in Sydney so I missed out.

This weekend however I have no plans til church Sunday night. I have some wool projects I need to finish and two groups in need of scarves, beanies, blankets and other winter woolies. So guess what I'm doing this weekend?????????

The WIP list goes like this:
- I have panels ready to stitch together for a lap rug (butterfly loom)
- I need to make a 4th panel for a different rug then stitch that too. (crochet)
- I have a baby bootie....just the one. Unless the recipient is an amputee I need to replicate it.(crochet)
- I trimmed a pile of denim offcuts last night for a tough blanket (machine sew)
- I still haven't finished wrapping my welcome mat.( hand stitch)
- I believe I have a scarf in progress on size 7 needles. which is why its a WIP I hate small needles. (knitting)

The new project list
- big needle scarves (knitting)
- circular needle beanies (knitting)
- I need to find/remember the crochet pattern I devised a few years ago. (crochet)
- panel scarves (crochet)
- I want to give fingerless gloves/arm warmers a shot too.

Phew! Man that's some list. And its only wool projects. And of course being the stasher I am, I actually do have the wool for these projects.

On the plus side, my FNSI do-over will hopefully mean less WIP as well as stashbusting and making OPAM list a little longer.