Pumpkins!

With Halloween just round the corner I thought I would share some photos I took at the Jucker Bachilhof Farm in Jona, just outside Zurich Switzerland earlier this month!

Aren't they wonderful? I will share some more photos from the farm later in the week!

Canvas work and EPP

I've recently picked up my canvas work again after a gap of several months! I am working on getting the bead work completed but I admit I'm finding the beads a bit of a fiddle and tedious, but as you can see by the top left hand corner I've nearly cracked it with just a large square and a couple of small squares to complete. So my aim today is to sit and watch a film (maybe a musical - what's not to love about a musical on a Sunday afternoon) and get the last beads sewn on!

I've also made a couple more 60 degree stars and sewn two of the 8 star units together. So far so good! I am linking up with Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching (goodness it feels like an age since I last did). Take a look at what others are hand sewing at the moment, its sure to give some inspiration if any is needed!

Have a wonderful day!

PS I've just linked into Kathy's blog and she has featured four amazing La Passacaglia quilts (I am totally in love with them......could this be my next project?)

Hexies

I didn't realise how long its been since I have last posted! But I have been a busy girl.......apart from working part time in the coffee shop, I have spent the last three long weekends away. I've visited Salisbury (we go there fairly regularly but we really like the city and the walking from the campsite is lovely), We spent five days with my brother and SiL in Switzerland, being thoroughly spoilt, walking and we travelled a rather spectacular UNESCO train journey up into the mountains to St. Moritz and then last weekend we were in Glastonbury (another nice campsite for good walking).  During that time I have been gradually building up my 60 degree stars and I will photograph them and do a show and tell soon.  Then on Friday I realised I hadn't been into my sewing room for what seemed like weeks and oh what bliss it was!  I gave it a really good tidy and then decided to add a border to my grandmothers garden to try and stabilise the edge.  I just happened to have a half metre of plain green which seemed to fit in really well with the garden theme.  All I have to do now is get the wadding, backing fabric and find some thread to start hand quilting it.....not much then!