July Sewing (~ Part Two ~) ... Christmas In July

Greetings lovely friends & readers

Instead of flowers this week I am enjoying this $2.50 thrifted glass pedestal bowl filled with oranges from my tree.    Though they are smaller in size this year, they are sweet & juicy & the tree is laden.

After a week of heavy frosts (-2 degrees on some days) we now have a cold southerly blowing.  I have a Fridge Drawer Stew simmering away in the slow cooker which will last us 2 or 3 nights. 

 

I have been finishing off some more kitsets, these ones with a Christmas-in-July theme.  This Christmas Stitchery Roll was a recent purchase from Millymac Supplies & it came with everything required to make the roll although I added in lots of my own embellishments.  

Really hard to get good photos on this grey overcast day.  Stitched on linen, I backed mine with a thin wadding & then once stitched, I lined the entire roll with a length of Lynette Anderson Christmas fabric (included in the kitset).

Finished length of the roll is 50 cms not including the tag.

It is the sweetest little snippet roll - my photos do not do it justice.  I am not sure how to display this at Christmas time, but definitely unrolled ... perhaps over the edge of my mantel? 

The second kitset was purchased about 3 years ago now - from Tis' the Season - Matangi ... a beautiful patchwork store not too far from where I live.  

This is Woolen Heirloom Santa, based on a design called Scandinavian Snowflake Santa by Cameron James Designs  It was re-kitted with permission & a definite Heirloom look to him.  Everything was included in the kit (except the stuffing).  

This project took some time & patience, & brain power (!!)  But I love how he has turned out.  He has handmade felt boots, mittens & all his clothes are fully lined. 

The length of Tibetan Lambswool used for his hair, beard, moustache & eyebrows was included but you had to cut these items out.

Now that he is complete, he is hanging out in my sewing room.  I have told him he can stay out so long as he behaves himself 😉

Another finished project was these wool blanket seedling pots.  I was given one for my birthday so I used this as a guide to make up my own pattern.  I have lots of wool blanket offcuts from my many years of sewing for my craft cottage & these were a good way to use up the smaller scraps.  I cut out & sewed up 20 of them.

There was no ironing required as I had an extremely helpful assistant 😸 that kindly helped with this task (!!)

My brother was having a birthday so I made up a gardening parcel to post to him along with some of the seedling pots, I also sent some South to a dear friend.  The rest are filled with seed raising mix, waiting til my moon calendar tells me its good planting time on the 29th of this month, when I will sow my sweet pea seeds.

Blackies latest night-time sleeping place is the computer chair.  Last night a certain Ginger Miss decided she wanted it too ... as you can see there was not a lot of room for two rather overweight large decent sized furry felines (!!)  You surely cannot tell me that either one is comfortable ??!!

Thank you as always dear friends, for your ever welcome visits here today,

With much love & friendship to you all,