What I've Been Up To This Week

I  have seen some lovely pincushions around the web this week and although I have several, mine are too small for all the pins I use.  So I found an easy pattern on You Tube, adapted it to suit me and knocked this one up in an hour or two. I used some lovely fabric from the Moda "Etchings" range and of course, I had to add a few vintage bits!   I am quite chuffed with it actually.

You may remember a previous post about crumb piecing. Well, I quite enjoy doing this at times (not all the time as it can be very fiddly indeed) but with perseverence my crumb pieced item is starting to slowly take shape.  I have no idea yet what it is going to end up as but for the moment I am trying to fit in various types of scrap blocks and get it to balance out and then I will decide whether it will be a throw, tablecloth or whatever. It is a slow work in progress but very satisfying to use up lots of scraps which would be otherwise thrown away.

2 new scrappy blocks

I haven't taken part in any swaps this year due to health issues but as the festive season approaches I have relented and joined the one over at Button Floozies.  I have to make 3 Christmas ornamentsto hang or be displayed on a shelf, containing buttons but can use other items also.  I have 3 swap partners already in the UK and must get these made by 28th November.  I have finished one and nearly completed the second.  Can't show you anything yet as we cannot post until all swap members have received their ornaments.  So busy, busy, busy.