Wednesday 21 September 2016

Framed...

It sure is hard to restart once out of the blogging habit...here goes...

Back in June Melissa Grant of One Day in May travelled west to spend a day giving a workshop put on by the Stawell Craft Shop and to start off on the Friday night held a trunk show at the shop.  Not sure what to expect, but thinking it might be interesting, my friend M and I went along...and we weren't sorry...Melissa was lovely, we got to see all her lovely projects, hear her story and she freely offered tips and tricks...definitely made the prospect of the workshop the next day even more enticing.

At the workshop we were to be given the choice of two projects. One a pattern Melissa had already released and one a surprise. I looked at the known pattern, Sew Tidy, on Melissa's website, liked it, so on the Friday morning before work thought I'd put some background fabrics and threads in the bag for the next day and before I knew it...whoosh! fabrics and threads came together and all I needed was the pattern to go with them!  The feature stitchery was started on the day...
Finished the words in class...yes, in class!...happiness indeed...

It became my fortnightly Saturday sit and sew project... the stitchery was finished...
 The whole constructed and put in a frame...
And filled with some bits and bobs as a try out...
An actual finish (maybe a month ago which means only a couple of months since the workshop - almost a miracle!)... 

Happy Stitching...

6 comments:

Jo said...

Great finish...Love the look of the stitchery. Are those flowers 3D. When you see Cheryl at the Stawell shop, say hi from me, please....
How's the rain today...

Michelle Ridgway said...

Wow! It is so lovely. You have done a beautiful job. So glad you had such a lovely time in Stawell.

elliek said...

Melissa is beautiful. Love her work and yours does the pattern proud. I used my class project(Sunday) today while doing my dear Jane blocks. Yeah a finish too!

Fiona said...

Just lovely and so nice to go and be stitchery pampered for a day...
Hugz

Chookyblue...... said...

about time you returned......too quiet without you......lovely project.........

Christine M said...

Your sew tidy looks wonderful Annette. xx