December Day Eleven

A quick post tonight......first of all a quick peek at our dahlias - I hadn't been to our dahlia patch for a week and quickly saw what I'd been missing!

There is a story behind our dahlia patch but that will have to wait for another day.

And I had a fun little 'conversation' with Louise today. She was tickled by my chicken blocks yesterday .....the fun thing is that Louise has just got home (USA) from a holiday in New Zealand, and when she saw the chicken blocks, she thought KIWI!!

She played with the picture of my chicken block then sent me though a design which I thought I'd sew up. Here it is!

The bird family so far —

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn

December Day Ten

Another pottering type of day today - busy enough but not doing anything I'd set out to do!!

For some reason I thought it would be fun to sew up a couple of chicken blocks...because I didn't think they'd take too long...

Even cuter when they have their little feet —

This pattern is from Lori Holt's book, Farmgirl Vintage 2.

Back in April when I went to Scrub Stitching retreat, Sylvia made us some sweet (and handy) little magnetic needle keeps which I thought I'd have a play at making. Just a matter of finding a suitable magnet now.

This is what happened next - can you guess?

I think the half roll of cellotape gives it away - we had children come out to visit. 

Gandad had help to get the cows in for milking. You can just make out a small boy on his bike. George was extra helpful and important!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn