2024 TTAL - temperature tat along part three

 Hi,

On this very very wet day,  I realised that I had not shown you the temperature tat along  which is on Facebook at the moment,  well it will be for the whole year,   our temperatures have been on the mild side for a few weeks now,  and my first all one colour square has arrived which was the 13th February,  

I have managed to catch up a little bit over the last week,  when I had to rest after having a procedure 8n hospital,  it’s beginning to get less sore now. Hopefully it will settle down and I will have less pain in my hip.

I will post again next week,  I don’t want to keep boring you by keep showing it too often.

Stay dry and warm,  at the moment we have a lot of flooding near us in Frome and surrounding areas, if any one wants some rain,  we would be pleased to off load it for some sunshine.

Have a good week

Margaret

CD Sunday challenge - anything goes #127

 Hi, 

 Here is our second challenge of the year,  as usual it’s anything goes and the host this fortnight  is Meg,

For my card this fortnight I have used celebration bears CD by Debbi Moore,  this is a rocker card with the bear decoupaged,   This is a complete card from the CD.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page 

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

Have a lovely weekend 

Margaret 

Valentine ice drop heart

 Hi,

Happy Valentine’s Day,   I have not made any hearts this year as yet,  but I wanted to show you one I made a few years ago  I adapted the pattern into an ice drop,

This pattern is also called Valentine Heart by Etha Schuette and I have made it into an ice drop heart,  I used some old coats thread which I have had for a very long time, no idea when I brought it but its a variegated red,  the red glass nugget was too dark so I put a clear one in.   A link to the pattern I have is.  The link still works  to the pattern 

Hope you have a nice day

Margaret 

2024 - TTAL Temperature Tat a- long

 Hi,

Here is the next instalment of the tat along on Facebook,  last week I showed you six squares of the very cold  weather we had here in Somerset,  well it has grown a little with milder temperatures,   

This is January finished,      I am going around in a clock wise and the marker is to show me where I started around the block of six,  I have changed the way I sew in the ends,  I had a problem with the lighter colours popping though the darker colours.  Hoping when I have a good  day to sew a little darker colour over the lighter colours,  it’s not for  sale and it’s mine so it shows it’s ok. I can live with it,

I will post again next week when I have done a bit more,  I am wondering  how February will either stay the same with milder temperatures or bring in some different colours if it gets colder.

 I am in hospital today  for  a few hours, and then rest for a couple of days, so hopefully I can get more done and catch up a bit.

Margaret 

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year 

To all my friends and followers

 

2024 TTAL - Temperature Tat-a-Long

 Hi,

On Facebook in the beginning of  they started a 2024 tat-a-Long,  I joined in the third week of January,  it was a very cold week with frost  at night, for  every ten degrees the colour changes so the squares change with it, this is my first six days,  I am making it as a mat,  many are doing strips or other shapes,   at the end of the year we should have 366 squares,  well those who started at the beginning will,  mine will be short but I really don’t mind,    

I should have posted this last week as mine has more squares now and some different colour squares, as the temperatures have changed from day to day,  I am not going to post every day hopefully once a week,  I am almost to the end of January will just two more squares to tat before  starting on  February,   Each day I make a note of the daily temperature, at the moment our temperatures have been above average,  next week they look as it the are going to drop,  so the colours will change accordingly 

 I am using Lizbeth thread no 20 in a range of colours.

Margaret 

CD Sunday challenge - anything goes #126

 Hi,

Welcome to our first challenge of 2024,  this year we have two new members,  Meg who is rejoining us again and  Aimes which you possibly know as Aimeslee who has been contributing to our challenges for years,  as usual our challenges are anything goes,  as long as it’s a CD, USB, or digital material.  The host this fortnight is Pamela 

For my card I have chosen to do an art deco card,  using Art Deco Romance CD form Debbi Moore,  fo the image and backing paper,  I added a spray of feathers, die flourish’s and ribbon roses.  I also matted the images  red Miri card,  the dies used are Fanciful flourish’s from Cherry lane  designs,  Leafy flourish signature collection crafters companion.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

 

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

Have a lovely weekend 

Margaret 

Tatted ice drops

 

Hi,

I have been doing some ice drops as I found I was short in supply,  so after Christmas I set about using up some thread on my shuttles,  

These are all from the pattern sixes and sevens by Diane, I used Lizbeth thread Cranberry bush, white and Christmas green 

I hope to get a few more done over the next few months.

Margaret