Patches of Destruxion

Hello everyone! I have finished enough of these to sneak in one more monthly roundup before the end of the year. These are my fussy cutting sewalong blocks from October and the theme is Out Of This World. We were encouraged to use space fabrics, Halloween fabrics or explore fictional worlds. I did 5 starflowers for the four weeks. The first week was identifiable motifs in the inner diamonds. I did two blocks for this week.  The first one uses some kawaii Harry Potter fabric that I got from Aldi for the motif. There weren't enough different characters in the yellow material, so I supplemented with Buckbeak and Norbert on a purple fabric.  The outer diamonds are some of my favourite Libs Elliot fabric, because I consider her designs to be out of this world! The second one is a 6-point tribute of my 5-point star creations from my ongoimg Halloween La Passacaglia quilt (See here and here for more about that quilt) . Because I love the way the ghosts spin out

Hello everyone! This is the sorry tale of a poor, badly-treated jumper. Don't worry, it has a happy ending. My mother-in-law bought a gift for her husband, a lovely thick, warm Scandinavian jumper. Sized XXL, it fit him beautifully and was lovely and snuggly and warm. Unfortunately, not long after being purchased, it went on a rather unwise trip through the tumble dryer, and came out somewhat smaller. It was no longer able to fit my father-in-law, but it was still a perfectly wearable jumper. So he gave it to my husband, who is slimmer than his father and it fit him nicely at the new size. We got strict instructions not to put it the tumble dryer. My husband did not put it in the tumble dryer. He did, however put it in the washing machine at 40 degrees. Which theoretically should have been fine, but the jumper did not like that either, and shrunk even further. So it now looked like this: With the baggy lining (which did not shrink) and the changed dimensions, it

Hello everyone! Sorry that I seem to have been neglecting this blog a bit lately. I have still been stitching away. Since it is nearly Christmas, I thought I would share with you some of the little bits of Christmas stitching I have done over the last few years. Snowman Cross Stitch This was my first ever attempt to design a cross stitch motif all by myself. I used to think when I was in my teens that because I couldn't draw photorealistically that meant I wasn't good at art. Despite the fact I had produced dozens of fabric and embroidered artworks. Because of this belief I thought I couldn't design cross stitch motifs myself. I finally, in 2013, realised I had been telling myself some BS and I could learn to draw better with practise. So I sketched this little guy. And stitched him virtually straight away. He then sat in a drawer for ages, until just before Christmas 2016, when I rediscovered him and decided to finish him into an ornament for the Christmas tree