Searching.....

In an effort to find my missing mojo I sat down and 

did some book browsing....

Not quilting or sewing books but.....

Botanical Art books!

I love botanical art.....

I find the colours and designs inspiring!

I have some lovely pieces of botanical art I 

treasure....

And this is a cross stitch of poppies I made in 

my 'cross stitch days'!

In fact, I even took a watercolour class a few years 

back....

I think I'd like to go back to it one day,

when I have the time and space.....

and the mojo!


☺

Linking up with Mel for "Tuesday Treasures"

Happy days!

SUZ

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Santa has paid a visit to some of my 'out-of-town country' friends!

Two special ladies have received some of these Christmas decorations

 I made recently....

And this little cross stitched boot, which came from a very old pattern...

with a hanger of vintage ribbon!

And I am still stitching away...

A red heart on natural linen!

Then I need to do some of my own decorating for Christmas!

Happy days!

SUZ

Bits and Pieces!

I've had a rather productive week!

I LOVE this block!

Its called "Snow Blossoms" and I found it on Quilter's Cache...

But I originally saw the idea here on Flick'r.

Krista has lots of wonderful variations on her photostream

I've had my Michael Miller Eiffel Tower print for ages....

 (Almost two years from memory)... and I was really scared cutting into it!

As it is fussy cut, there will probably be a lot of waste.

But not as much if I had foundation pieced it.

I did a practice one first and then decided to cut the pieces individually.

Not sure whether I will make any more of these blocks or even if I have enough fabric to make more of the same.

Perhaps I could make more in a similar colour palette?

Or even use the same fabrics for a variety of block designs?

I also finished machine quilting and binding on my pram quilt.

And edge finished the fabric for my Embroider-Bee blocks.

Now to decide on some embroidery patterns....
 I finished this pin cushion which is a gift...

I'd cross stitched the cherries AGES ago and decided they needed to be loved a 


little bit more!


And the Dresden wedges from Lily's Quilts QAL have had a bit of a facelift.....

Their size was a bit overwhelming for me so I have split them into four and have something different planned... 

Until next time.....

Happy Sewing!

SUZ

Cross Stitch Tour

ChookyBlue began a Cross Stitch Tour (or is it a Sampler Blogalong?) last weekend!

And I wanted to be involved this week!

Although these ones aren't Samplers.


(An apology first - most of my cross stitch are framed behind glass and TERRIBLY difficult to photograph! The colors are not true to life either!) 

I do have a lovely sampler packed away somewhere?

Most of my pieces are quite 'old' because, after making many which I had framed, I ran out of walls to hang them on!

This one of poppies is a particular favorite!

We don't get red poppies like this 'downunder'!

All are on Aida, except this one!

It is on linen and was lovely to make! 

I completed this one for an "Embroider-Bee" on Flickr earlier this year.

It now lives in Scotland!

My husband is a big Native American fan!

That's why there are 2 on that theme.

The words on this one had a lovely romantic sentiment!

I do have others but they are packed away while we live in this small apartment as part of my husband's

job.

When we retire we will move to our bigger apartment that has more rooms (maybe one will become my

sewing room?) ....

and more walls!!!

Have a great day!

SUZ

At Play!

In the spirit of my new name and another cold, gloomy day in Melbourne I decided today I would play!

Play with fabric that is!

First up I finished up these cross stitch pieces I did while I was away.

Don't they look pretty?

I think they might become cards.

Close Up

I had wanted to try one of these for a while now.

I found a tutorial and this is the result.

It was really quite easy and I'm pretty happy with my first attempt.

Asterisk Block


That is one thing I like to do when I have the time-

Try out new techniques and methods-just playing with fabric and color and see what happens!

So I also worked on my foundation pieced Mariner's Compass blocks today.

But I'm not ready to show Block 6 just yet.

Until then, have a happy day!

SUZ