Just......More♡

Hello lovely lovelies♡ 'Tis a lovely Sunday morning♡ The beginning of another week♡ I must say last week was one with lots of snapshots of  moments of a little more of this and a little more of that. A week where the things that had to get done were punctuated with more, more, more of the things that bring me contentment♡

More......walks in the garden with my Maisie♡ More misty mornings♡ More blue, blue, summery skies♡ More gossamer, silky, shawl-like spider webs with beaded droplets of dew glistening in the mist♡

More.....floribunda......flowers♡ More Dahlias♡ More Roses♡ More Sweet Peas♡ More Hydrangeas♡  More Gladdies♡ 

More....hand quilting♡ Just a little. I have begun the begin of hand quilting  my quilt,  Crazy Flowers, with an explosion of crazy fabrics forming even crazier flowers. Simple, little hand-quilted stitches, do-si-do-ing round and round and round the octagon-shaped flowers; giving a sense of petals tightly wrapped together before they unfurl to reveal blooming crazy flowers. The little squares in between the flowers have a simple cross skipping through them. I was going to machine quilt this pretty, but on second thoughts I just wanted to sit and enjoy slow hand quilting. I really didn't want to wrestle with the quilt and the sewing machine. Sore shoulders, hunched back.....no, no, NO!!!!

More.....tea and cake.........book readin'.......magazine browsing♡ Actually, if truth be told, much, much, much more tea and cake. I am enjoying Renegrades, Born In The USA, the dialogue between Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, and I am loving reading The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. 

More......playing, designing and stitching another bag♡ When my very dear friend visited me last year she happened to see my pretty blue bag, and my pink bag she asked if I would make her one. I said "well.....if you can find bag handles of similar ilk, yes, I will whip you up a pretty bag". Now, I must say at this interval I was quite smug about my friend not finding handles such as the ones I had, as these days they are pretty much rare as hen's teeth. I might also add that I was quite certain that because of this I wouldn't have to make yet another bag. =) Yes indeed...very smug. Wrong!! Believe it or not, the next day we went shopping, my friend darkened the door of an op shop and lo and behold she came out with similar bag handles in her hand!! I might add at this juncture that she was beaming with a wide lookity-look-at-what-I-found smile on her face! Needless to say I am now fashioning my lovely friend a one-of-a-kind-Kim-Sharman bag. Be careful what you say, Kim. =)

More sweet little hexies♡ Hexies fashioned from my new Tilda, Pie In The Sky fabrics♡

A week with little bits of more, more, more♡ A week just doing more of what adds a smile to my day. How about you?? Were there more moments of beauty in your days?? More moments of doing what you love, squeezed in between the mundane, the 'must do's' of  the everyday?? I hope so♡ I have to hurry off now. It is a day where my good husband and I will be travelling over mountain and down dale as he is preaching at a couple of little country churches. On days such as this I call him the 'travellin' preacher man'. =) It will be a pleasant day where I will catch up with beautiful people and enjoy a little hand stitching as the beautiful countryside rolls by with the blue, blue, summery sky above. A little hand quilting perhaps.....or a few sweet hexies. I will just go with the flow and hand stitch some more, more, more. But then, I may just want to relax as the scenery whizzes by and read my book. In any case I will enjoy some hand quilting later this evening. As it is Sunday when all things slow stitching is celebrated, later this evening I will pop by Kathy's lovely place and see what all the other lovely lovelies are stitching. Love, love, love Sundays♡  Have a lovely day, lovely lovelies♡

Until the next time....................

 

Pie In The Sky♡

 

Good Morning, lovely lovelies♡ 'Tis early Sunday morning here at my little place. Sunday....the day where a little hand stitching is enjoyed topping it off by visiting Kathy's place much later this evening to join the slow hand stitching party♡ Slow hand stitching; one of my very favourite ways to enjoy many moments♡ I must confess I can sit for many, many hours in a comfy chair, cup of tea beside me and become unaware of time as I hand stitch a pretty. Oh, I get up every now and then to refill my pretty fine bone china teacup with Melbourne Breakfast tea. =)

What have I been up to this week?? Well.....I bought some lovely fabrics. I didn't mean to, but then I never do. I visited my favourite patchwork shop to purchase some glue pens for my hexies and a quilt marking pen so I could start to quilt Crazy Flowers. But upon crossing over the threshold of the shop my eyes immediately fell upon a shelf of Tilda new fabrics, Pie in The Sky. With names in the collection such as Willy Nilly Pink, Cloud Pie Grape, Confetti Pine etc etc, this collection causes me to think of fanciful notions, of dreams of fantastical pretties yet to be fashioned. Such fun names exuding whimsy. So often when skipping down the creative path what I imagine is 'willy nilly' and indeed 'pie in the sky' imaginations that, if I thought my ideas through, I perhaps would never begin; but of course, that is not how I roll. I am a live-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda girl when it comes to designing and stitching.  These fabrics are a sweet and colourful collection of doodle-like florals. They evoke a vintage vibe which is always so pleasing to me. So, so pretty. Love, these sweet, dimity prints. And....this collection blends fabulously with the Tilda Chic Escape fabrics which I purchased last year. Combining the two collections will make for some lovely quilts, me thinks.

Of course, there was the cutting of many flowers to arrange into vases. Roses, gladdies, sweet peas, hydrangeas and dahlias were the flowers which starred this week. I have to make the most of my flowers because  summer is hurrying by and soon all I will be gathering is autumn leaves. And, of course, a vase or two of flowers can all of a sudden put the extraordinary into the ordinary of ones day; don't you think??

The new prompt for my Down The Garden Path slow stitching project is a veggie garden. A great prompt, but alas, I haven't started mine as yet. There has been much contemplation of my belly button about what I will design and stitch. There a few thoughts, so hopefully this coming week I will begin planting carrots, beans, tomatoes and whatever other veggies fall upon the fertile soil.......but then I want to begin to quilt my Crazy Flowers quilt. Decisions.....decisions??!!

I have stitched a few more flower hexies for my hexie flower meadow quilt. Of course, with the accumulation of more fabrics, I will fashion a few hexies from these new Tilda pretties.

Oh....and I have spent quite a bit of my moments capturing happy snaps of my pretty new fabrics sashaying with vases of flowers and, believe it or not, a string of flowery lights. The floralicious pretties sprinkle a touch of pastel loveliness in my sewing room. So an explosion of colour to add to your day. After all, of late, I suppose for most of you it is white, white and then some that you are seeing. =)

Thank you for popping by this Sunday morning to see what pretties I have showcased today. Pretty flowers, pretty fabrics, pretty, flowery lights; and a pretty happy snap or two. Pretty, pretty, pretty......that's how I like it. =) Oh, how I love to sprinkle a little beauty.....a little pretty into my day♡ May your day be sprinkled with a little beauty, too♡ I'm off to my pretty sewing room, with my first cup of tea of the morning in hand, to watch the sleepy sun slowly rise, ricocheting warm and happy sunbeams everywhere.......and stitch a few hexies♡ Basking in the early morning sunshine in my sewing room, is the epitome of joy♡

This coming week, may your light shine brightly in your little corner of the world♡

Until the next time...........