The weekend win.

Annie and I headed off on a whim, for a breakfast meeting at Millrose yesterday, where I bought a pack of divine wool squares.

I took out the creamy white one and added some blues from the stash. Then I chopped them all in half (Now 2  1/2 x 5 inches)

and sewed them all together.

I added a back piece and Bob’s your uncle – A new scarf !

(Loving myself sick right now)

Independent ..........

Tuesday - a bit of a scarf workshop with friends - Awesome fun and a new scarf featuring some Aunty Cookie, some Greenolive designs , some Pippijoe and some left over printed text from the Johnny Depp scarf of last year.

Wednesday - sewing day with some other friends, more great fun and the fronts- only of two cushion covers. Gorgeous natural linen with pieces of Sumor by the spunkiest of all bubbles the Ink and spindle team.

and this little sweetie is Nan and she loves to play nurses

She may not be the answer to swine flu.....

but she's willing to give it a shot !

Johnny? ...oh Johnny?

Its done ! The scarf of longing and branches and texture is finished. (You may need to backtrack to this post to understand)

The fabrics are a mix of bought from pipijoe, donated by Kirsty (Thank you) and stuff from the stash.

I love the gocco pieces. I retyped part of the Scarf blog post and translated it to French and then gocco'ed the text onto some wool, satin and other general shiny fabrics as well as some velvets.

I foundation pieced it together and then backed it with some soft black velveteen.

I actually made two of these at the same time, one I am going to keep and it will debut at work tomorrow and the other one will be in the next shop update.


Now which one to keep...Johnny? oh Johnny? Could you possibly come over and just drape these around your neck? pardon? You think they might look better against bare skin?

Do I mind if you take off your shirt?

Of course not dear, Whatever makes you comfortable .......

My blog conscience or Jimminy cricket is not a crafter !

Dear Diary,

This week I promise to finish things off and not start any new projects until the THREE UFO baskets are empty and I have put the binding on the baby quilt.

Monday ...... Dear Diary, I finished off this little baglet. Yes I know I had cut out and partially sewn four of them but this is like totally finished -the base is covered and stitched and and the button is on - like totally finished.

Tuesday .......Dear Diary - Hows this? I finally machine embroidered the scarf that I started last winter ! Yes I know there are two others rolled up ready to be done ...I know . OK ?

Wednesday.......Dear Diary -

• Went op-shopping and bought a coathanger. Came home and hung it up on the wall. This is not a new project diary but rather an ongoing collection so it doesn't count ! NER ! (wish I could find nicer hooks)
• Bought fabric to make binding for baby quilt.
• Tweaked ongoing pattern (first started about 2yrs ago so it does count.)
• Fiddled with, but did not ACTUALLY start new handbag.

Thursday...........Dear Diary -

• Bought fabric for binding baby quilt.
• Googled embroidery stitching instructions (googling doesn't count).
• May have almost quite by accident kind of started the new bag a little bit.

Friday ................. Dear Diary

• Worked on new bag
• blogged
• threw away diary.