Finished twice!

A project I considered Half Done and one I wanted to complete properly this year was my 2010 Mystery Stitchery, completed through The Country Yard way back then.
I re-discovered it recently when the elder twins were building a hut —

I realised how little quilting it had on it and decided if it was going to live for more huts and general wear and tear, it would be best if I added some more to it.

It was quilted around the sashing of the stitchery blocks and and in about 6 other ditches. A bit baggy in places :-(

I decided I wasn't going to quilt it to death, but I do like my stitcheries to have at last a little quilting in them —

I had a bit of a play adding in some steam or ribbons, etc.

I should include a photo of how these blocks were before —

There are a couple more photos of these on my previous post. When I wrote that post I was asked where the proverb designs came from. After a bit of hunting and remembering, I found them *here*. The site is slightly updated from years ago when we accessed them for The Country Yard but you should be able to get them ok.

I stitched in a lot more ditches. The flying geese got a wee touch of free play —

I did some very simple border feathers —

I had a flashback to 2012 and the Diane Gaudynski feathers I learnt then.

Finished with a label (nothing flash!) —

Funny that this quilt never got a name - it was always just The Mystery Stitchery!

A quick photo shoot of the new and improved twice finished quilt!

Ta-Da! My first PHD finish for the year.

Read more about the PHD project *here*.
EDIT - I'm linking up to Gail's PHD progress report *here*.

I mentioned in my last post that we had the elder girls here. They stayed for a couple of nights while their Dad and YD were otherwise occupied......

The Grand Result? One big little baby boy ♥

Unfortunately for you, you're seeing more of me than he in the photo below but rest assured that he is a beautiful bonny fellow. The spitting image of his father.

One happy Ganma and newborn Odie ♥

As can be expected we're all as pleased and proud as punch!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Flashback Friday

Sandra from mmmquilts has a throwback Thursday post on the first Thursday of every month. It's to showcase quilts we made in our pre-blogging days. I've always been interested but thought that all my quilts have been made since I started blogging.
But I was wrong!
It all started with a bit of hutch making the other day.
I had two girls over for a few hours. After a bit of baking —

Hehe don't you love how they've arrange the biscuits!

— they got busy playing. Which morphed into Hutch building.

Not hut building. They have pet rabbits so hutches make a lot more sense to them. Of course Ganma was asked to get more quilts as there was too much daylight showing. Apparently the rabbits couldn't eat their fruit with too much light.

In the blurry photo above you see a blue and white quilt.
It's one I'd not seen for a while so I hunted through my blog to find out when I'd made it.

It wasn't here. So here it is.

This quilt was a Mystery Stitchery project we did at The Country Yard when I first started working there. The stitcheries were some out of copyright ones, and we put it together with the blocks. From memory, we discussed ideas at work, then I came home, made the blocks and wrote the instructions. I've found them on the PC this afternoon and that's the only way I know it was made in 2010!
It's waited all this time for a label!! Guess what I'll do with it next?!
Here are some closeups of some of the stitchery blocks—

What intrigues me with this quilt is the lack of quilting!! I've ditch stitched around the sashing of the stitchery blocks and that's it! I'm thinking it would be quite good to come back to it and add a bit more!

Sandra is not running Throwback Thursday this month; instead Andree of quiltinglearningcombo blog is hosting it. So I'll head over there soon and link up.
And I've named this post Flashback Friday as it's Friday here today!

Tonight is Friday Night with Friends with Cheryll of stitchingcubbyhole. I may see you there :-)

'til next time,

happy stitching,