All sorts

It's been a few weeks since my last post - the weeks seem to be rolling on by so quickly, and it's now only a week until the end of October, crazy! I thought I'd do a little round up of what has been happening around here, including some more finishing and a new start.

Hannah and I have both been unwell over the past fortnight, nasty viral infections, and both of us ended up with ear infections too, I've never had one before, not very pleasant. Spent a small fortune on doctor appointments and medications lately!

Remember how we lost half of one of our big trees in the high winds a few weeks back? Well, this led to all the trees along this fence line being chopped down.  Glenn decided to redo the fence, his brother Paul gave him a hand to replace all the iron and the fence posts.  Last weekend we replaced all the topsoil, and then replanted this garden with new hedging plants, Grisilinia geckos, which will eventually grow to about to about the height of the fence. Lots of work but hopefully from now it will be easy maintenance of this garden.

I'm slowly getting through the finishing pile, all of these designs were stitched earlier this year.

Cottontail and Company by Scattered Seeds Samplers:

Peace & Goodwill by Brenda Gervais:

Spring Fling by Brenda Gervias:

All is Calm by October House Fibre Arts:

Next up is a bunch of little kits from the Ribbon Rose in Auckland that arrived recently, which to stitch first? I also got some thread snips, they are so handy to have by the sewing machine.

A friend gave me this beaded fob she made for me, so cute!

I couldn't resist purchasing Lori Holt's new chart last week, Garden of Quilts, and I have made small start.

This is the lovely stitching folio my friend Clare gave me last year for my birthday. 

Pretty threads, all Classic Colourworks

The fabric I'm using is Weeks Dye Works 36 count Rhyolite linen.

I'm looking forward the 2025 Jingle Ball in early December, and this year I have purchased two of the classes, yay, PDF charts, as kits are not available to overseas stitchers. The good thing is if your class pieces are not stitched in time for the finishing classes over the weekend, you have 30 days to view the class, and each class also comes with instructions. I still haven't finished my 2024 classes yet, lol. 

This coming weekend we get a four day break thanks to two public holidays, Hawkes Bay anniversary tomorrow, and then Labour Day on Monday. We're heading out in the campervan for our first trip of the season to Porangahau Beach.  Friends will also be there with their campervans so it should be a fun weekend catching up with everyone, fishing and lots of walks along the beach with Diesel.  The forecast for later today and this evening isn't very good, but hopefully from tomorrow on the sun will be out.

See you soon x