Such a busy bee!

Once I started this wavy crochet blanket I couldn't stop!!

Its for one of the cane chairs in my house in Essex. I absolutely love it and have been madly crocheting most evenings.

And I have stitched quite a bit of my ABC too,  I took this with me to stitch when I went to the Get Together of the Sampler's Guild group on Canvey Island. It was just 17 miles from my house and near where I used to work. The very tiny bit of stitching which is a corner of the next set of letters  is all I did there the whole day!!! We just chatted and laughed and it was a wonderful day. This group meets weekly so I shall certainly join them once we are there permanently.

And my Golden Gate Houses has had a little bit of  the back stitching done but not a lot, been too busy doing other things, I need more hours in the day!

And here is my Round Robin back. Its been to various places in England and to America and doesn't it look great. I am going to put a title on it and everyones names and then frame it.

So a very big thank you to Clare, Lynn, Jaclyn, Dusty and Tina. I love it!

I am off tomorrow to the Stitch and Stash Get Together at Nuneaton so I wonder will I get more done than I did at Canvey!
Hope you all have some thing nice to look forward to at the weekend too!

Progress....

All the stitching is finished on my Golden Gate Houses I just have the back stitching to do now. I know some stitchers don't like this but when it is just around outlines I think it is easy to do.

I still love this picture and intend  to get it  framed when it is finished completely.

I had a break from it and stitched a bit more of this which is easy and so relaxing.

And now some of my patch work... this  is not easy at all and my unpicker was very busy indeed.

I find every part of this difficult to do, the cutting out of the pieces,( I first had to make the templates in card from the pattern in the magazine) Sewing it to get the points 'pointy' and matched up to other pieces with all seams just 1/4"

It is not going to beat me even though cutting out and sewing each of these blocks took an afternoon each!

I have completed the next and last RR that is Jaclynn's Teddy Bears so I feel I am way ahead. I didn't start the Blackbird Willow House as I thought it would be nice to start with it, new next month.

As well as my cross stitching and sewing  I have managed to write three short stories and complete my Assignment for my Writing Course, this last week, so busy all the time.

The weather has been awful!

Rain, rain and more rain here, we need the sun to ripen about 40 pounds +++ of tomatoes, as this year I have 72 plants! Some in the green house, some in the veg patch and the rest at the allotment. However the rain  is swelling the courgettes and marrows, which we always have a boundiful supply, but my DH has added chopped ones to curry and some to spag. bol so they are going down slowly!

Hope all's well in your worlds.

 HAPPY DAYS!