Completed Projects June-December 2018

I thought I would put the rest of my completed projects for this year in one post seeing the year is over tonight!!!

In June I completed a little Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched Needlecase

Inside

and the back

Very cute even if I say so myself

In August I made a Book Cushion cover for JoJo for her Birthday with a Christmas theme

You can tuck a book in the front part

For December I trimmed some tea towels for gifts

 And here they are all rolled up
Tutorial for tea towels at Elefantz
Thank You Jenny for this excellent Tutorial
I find I have made quite a few of these!!!

One more Shepherds Bush stocking

to hang with all the others!!!

And to finish off this year I came across a lovely idea at Made in the Monaro which is a little hand made shop in Cooma

Simply get 2 pages from a magazine

Stitch them together and leave an opening at the top

and voila there you have a little gift bag to pop your gift in

Sure uses up some of those magazines!!!

On that note I would like to wish my readers a very Happy New Year

All the best in Health and Happiness and World Peace for 2019

Dzintra xo

April Showers Quilt and April 2018

Back in April I finished this Quilt named April Showers for my DD

the back, all umbrellas

I had some blocks leftover so I made a little bag to put it in

This Quilt was such a joy to make!!!

I obtained permission from birdsnest which is a clothing store in the Alpine Village of Cooma in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales to photograph the Quilt on the red bike out the front

I had a Birthday and JoJo make a beaded Eiffel Tower for me on a white tile

Good Job JoJo

I even get to make my own cake on my Birthday lol

This little chook was part of a Quilt for Chookyblue

My Chooky is on the second row number 6

Whilst I was working on the Quilt on a Saturday evening My Armchair brought in a glass of red wine for me

And check this out

I saw this on the net

a perfect drink holder on the sewing table lol!!!

Whilst driving around in the Mountains I saw this Pie Shop at Nimmitabel

Mountain scenery on the way  home

and back at the beach

Its going to be a challenge to leave here if we do but hey maybe we are ready for a new adventure!!!

Finished projects FEBRUARY 2018 and Goings On

Here we are 29 December and I feel quite the stranger here on my Blog

I've had a few things happening with allergies here namely coughing when I eat plus feelings of heaviness and other issues

This all appears to be due to the environment,  and living at sea level

These all but disappear when I go up to higher ground/altitude

Consequently we are looking at moving up to higher ground but its all such a big deal as we have to take JoJo into account and look into new disability services 

In this case we can see where Health becomes No 1 as it would be hard being how I feel as we are getting older

Thank goodness I have spoken with other people and quite a few have similar issues and have moved for similar reasons

And I thought I was a Beach Chick but looks like I could be a Mountain Girl as per my maiden name!!!

First one is a block for Chookyblue for a Quilt that was being organized for her

Seeing she is into chooks and her favourite colour is blue this was my contribution

Next a little pouch using Japanese fabrics and 3 headbands using fat quarters

I also got around to pinning 2 Quilts

The top one is Past Times using from my fat 1/4 stash

and this one is one of Thimbleblossoms patterns

Next up is a block from York Plains by Hat Creek Quilts which I think will go into being a Table Runner

JoJo brought home a little Valentine's gift that she made for us 

A lovely set of Coasters

And of course she requested a special dinner for Valentine's Day

Chicken, Bacon, Tomato, Sweet Potato, Snow Peas all together

And a Dessert to top it off......Apple Snow

And I made Manu Fieldel's Pear and Almond Tart......mmmm, so delicious

I thought I would work on this Stitcher's Roll which is from a Girls Day in the Country Day

Pattern by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched

February also took me up to the High Country for an experiment to see how I fared up there

These comings and goings went on for the whole year and the results are very encouraging!!!

I set myself up with my sewing machine and relished the time alone during the day at a relative's place

I talked with a real estate agent in the area and he said he had moved about 15 people who had moved to the coast back to this small Alpine town due to asthma, allergies, humidity etc

So far so good for me

We will see what Fate has in store for us!!!

So my Friends I'll see if I can catch up with Goings On for this year.......see how I go lol

January 2018 finished items

Phew......what a year I am having....

A few health issues have cropped up which have really knocked me around so this is the first time in 9 years I haven't joined OPAM 

I thought I would just cruise along at my own pace sewing wise while we sort ourselves out

Looks like allergy problems are going to take us up to higher ground away from our Sea Change which I thought would last forever......

Some things are just not meant to be............sigh!!!

Plus this means having to sort JoJo out as well for disability programmes........double sigh!!!

Yipppeeeee I did manage to make a couple of small items!!!

Lovely linen with an Eiffel Tower tape (of course) 

Two little soft sunglass cases for the handbag

One for me and one for the gift box (if I don't end up keeping it lol)

along with my cloth tape name......I call it my brand lol!!!

I needed a red headband one day so I went to my Fat 1/4 stash and found this lovely French General one and found a Tutorial and made one........and it was perfect!!!

I'll be back soon........everyone have a beautiful Sunday......Dzintra xo

OPAM (One Project A Month) December 2017

Phew, finally been able to post my OPAM for December

Lots of reasons why I didn't but here goes 

Above is a little Christmas decoration I made for me and below one for Mr Armchair

And all together on our Christmas tree along with JoJo's

Pattern by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched

As always Anni's patterns are just fun to make!!!

Thank you Sweet Peg and her Partner in Crime Kris for hosting OPAM again this year

So much appreciated!!!