Chookshed Challenge

This month's Chookshed Challenge is #8.

My task is to complete the Christmas Gingerbread stitchery I started back in 2023.

The stitching is complete; I need to pop a border on it, quilt and bind it and gift it to wee Odie (in time for Christmas 2025!).

The trouble is, when I made this year's list, I was completely surprised that I hadn't finished it. PLUS I hadn't seen the stitchery floating around at all for a very long time.

My plan for this month is to find the stitchery and complete it.

If I can't find it, I will substitute another Christmas themed project that needs completing. Watch this space!!

This will be the first time I've linked up to Deana's Chookshed Challenge this year. Last year's participation in it was a write-off so I'm trying really hard to do better! 

The number drawn out of the January's Challenge was #6 which was to complete the 2024 Scrub Stitching project/kit.

✔ Done and blogged about *here*

Here is a group of the finished sewing cases at this year's retreat —

February's challenge was #10; to work some more on my Great Scrappy Star Adventure. I located the box and that was about it!!

My Antarctica quilt was March's challenge (#2). This one needs creative time and headspace so also remained untouched.

April's challenge was #4; On Williams Street. A free motion quilting sewalong from 2023. You make the blocks and practice different quilting designs in each one, Quilt As You Go style.

A great idea, but I never got all the blocks made.

But CELEBRATION - one more was made in April so I am counting that as success :-)

This is the block - each block is the same and they will all be quilted differently. (Luckily the instructions are all still up on their blog!)

I found a bunch of Kansas Trouble style fabrics which I am using —

The group so far, I have another seven to go!

So that gets me up-to-date. 

Hopefully I will find May's challenge stitchery soon and report back at the end of the month :-)

Linking up with the Chookshed Challenge on Deanna's Dreamworthy quilts blog *here*

Happy stitches,

Raewyn

A Fresh Start!

A new year and a fresh start!

Happy 2025 to you all

If everything goes according to plan I am going to have a fun and busy time sewing up a storm this year!!

Last year failed on so many accounts and it can only get better from here on in 😄

And without dwelling on the negatives I'm going to launch in here with all the good stuff.

I've decided to join the Chookshed Chatterers Challenge again this year. This is hosted by Deanna from Dreamworthy Quilts. Each month Deanna randomly selects a number - and we work on that number from our list.

Many of these projects I have talked about at length before....quite a few are from last year's challenge list which barely got dusted off so I will just make a quick list rather than full on explanations for them all.

I want to make PROGRESS on all of these - finished would be great but I'll be happy with progress -

1. International Sisters

2. Antarctica Quilt

3. Wings and Pretty Things

4. On Williams St

5. Hugs and Kisses Christmas Stitchery

6. 2024 Scrub Stitching project

7. Snowflake Lane 

8. Gingerbread Wallhanging

9. Mod Bear's Paw

10. The Great Scrappy Star Adventure

NUMBER 6 has been drawn as the project to work on this month. Yaay, it's the Sewing Case/Roll by Anni Downs we were given as a kit at Scrub Stitching 2024. I've actually been working on this lately so that's perfect!

See you next time,

Raewyn