WOYWW...

 Hello all.  Here we are at another Wednesday desk share with our creative friends.  It's been a different sort of week for me...

Monday  I was supposed to have a customer wanting me to make her 2 Memory bears having recently lost her Mum but she messaged me to say on sorting out her Mum's clothing she decided she wasn't ready to have them made just yet....the time for these things has to be right.

  This meant I had a day to find something else to do so...

...I decided to sort out one of my thread drawers...the blue/green one.  My threads tend to get rather mixed up and tangled and finding the one I need becomes difficult.

The bottom pic is my now tidy drawer....doesn't it look fab and yes I do have a lot but you can guarantee I wont have the right colour for the next job that comes through my door.

Yesterday I had to look at a prom dress to see if it was possible to reduce it from a size 12 down to a size 8....it had a pretty beaded band around the bodice and there was no way of taking it in as much as was needed because of it sadly.

So, yet again I was looking for something to do to use my time wisely...

I sorted out some small pieces of fabrics and cut out 1 1/2" strips to do some patchwork with and made these pretty key rings for the charity....what do you think?

Whilst cutting the tiny patchwork squares I learnt an important lesson...my rotart cutter is very sharp when it's got a new blade in it!!!! Ouch it hurt and it bled like a pig.

That's all from me for today.  If you leave me a little message I will do my best to pay you a visit to see what you've been up to.

I hope Neet is continuing to recover well at home...sending her lots of love.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

 Another week has passed and the sewing keeps coming...thankfully.   I've still had spare time so have been frog making this week. 

 I'm going to start this week with a smile.....

My Amaryllis has continued to make me smile when the third stalk opened up with yet another 4 blooms...so 12 in total.  Not bad for something I felt sorry for at Aldis...it's repaid me in full.

I decided to try out a couple of different patterns to make the frogs for the charity this time and made 3 like this which I rather like and....

....two like this [so far]....I like this pattern most because it's more like the frog Harry drew before he died.  There will be more made like this one.

That's all from me for this week.  I will pop over to see what you've been up to so please leave me a message if you call by.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW.....

 Hello all.  I heard from Neet yesterday and she could tell be she is now back in hospital having had an accident at home so please send her lots of healing wishes.  I really hope she is back home soon.

I've had a lovely week since we spoke last Wednesday.

Do you remember me telling you that I had bought the last amaryllis in Aldis?  Well it is now repaying me in full.  The first of the three stems has 4 blooms, the second stem now also has 4 beautiful blooms and the third stem is now starting to open up....I wonder how many blooms that one will have?

Our Sunday afternoon was spent being proud Grandparents.

Firstly we went to watch Lexi dancing in a competition and what a beautiful little dancer she is now.

Then we rushed to Theatre Severn to watch Sam in Dare to Dream Jr.

He had to sing a solo [emotional moments]....and he has a beautiful voice.

There was over 30 youngsters performing and there were some really beautiful voices amongst them.

I have made 8 little rabbit bags filled with chocolate eggs for the charity.

I have also used a piece of fabric that Jan sent us to make this lovely quilt for the charity...fabric well used Jan, so thank so much for sharing with us.

I made these two beautiful bears yesterday.  One of my customers gave me the piece of beautiful Indian fabric to make a bear out of so I made two and intend to give her one of them as a thank you.

I am making another Memory bear today so that will bring me to just 12 from 1000 bears...exciting times.

I will do my best to pop over to yours later.

Hugs,

Annie x