Been A While...

It seems I've become somewhat of a slow blogger of late... well, the blogging might be slow but there is at least a little stitching & sewing happening here...

Remember those lovely thread colours I posted recently? Last week, I put the finishing stitches to this less-than-scary little Halloween cross stitch design; it was published in the October 2013 issue of 'Cross Stitch Crazy' magazine & is by popular designer Joan Elliott. Of course it still needs to be finished into ornament form, but golly isn't it cute?

 I always love the character & definition that's brought to life with the outlining & back-stitching!

Continuing with Halloween, I've actually never been big on it, but for some reason I buy themed buttons (I guess that confirms that I love buttons of ANY type!). A lovely panel from a local shop is now going to be somewhere for me to put them. The quilting is nigh-on impossible to see; I just went along the main lines, around the bigger shapes, and through the tree trunks & branches. Some bind & a hanging sleeve will finish it off nicely.

A few months back, I came into a big collection of bright fat quarters... I decided they'd be perfect for something I've been thinking about for a while... making a more orderly version of the well-known Scrappy Trips Around The World... I found some great inspiration online & made a start. This is perfect as a project to work on at Patchwork group each Friday. With only 6 colours, it's definitely not scrappy, & I'm hoping it's going to give me the rainbow-type look I'm after.

Progress so far...

The colours are not as super-bright as they seem here - why is it sometimes so hard to get a good shot?! The colour to the far left is red, not garish orange.

I'd quite forgotten that I haven't shared any update pics of my Birthday FQs Quilt... I got it back from the quilter only days before I was hospitalised mid-July... I've sewn the bind on, so now it's just needing to be turned over & stitched down... The quilting design is dragonflies, flowers & swirls...

Good thing our evenings are still cool... so I can have the quilt over my lap & legs while I stitch the bind! If anyone is curious, my inspiration for this quilt was found here.

Well, that's about all I think... my pattern never changes, I'm always jumping from one project to another...
How many do YOU have on 'short rotation' at the moment?