FNWF

Well last night came at the end of a very busy week.  School's out for Summer!!  Yes the last day of the school year was yesterday and so no answering to bells till next year.  We had Junior Prizegiving in the morning followed by a shared lunch and farewells for staff who are leaving school-there were some retirements and a few who are moving to other places-the most for quite a while.

I went on to meet up with my stitching friends for a special afternoon tea and was pleased to get there earlier than usual.  Then after a trip to the airport and tea afterwards I finally sat down and worked on something that wasn't too strenuous on my eyes...and something that is for me..

Some bobbin winding for a small lace project..

                  

And then a little bit more stitching on one of my yet to be finished projects..there are certainly a few that I have to choose from!!

               

SSCS

The gift I made was wrapped and sent on its way over the seas to....??

                         

And my gift has just arrived from Lisa..

                         

with a gorgeous decoration inside which I was able to open straight away..

                     

the other package has been put away for Christmas Day..thank you Lisa, it's just lovely..

Well it's hard to believe it will be Summer tomorrow..today's temperature was a chilly 9 degrees..but the wind made it feel so much colder..still this is the last week of school for the year so that is something to be excited about!!

FNSI

Well FNSI saw me take some time, for myself, to do some more secret sewing  so I can't show too much but....I may or may not have been using some fabrics from this selection...

                       

It was a change to have a break from this 2.5 inch high stack of papers.. 

                     

yes, it's been end of year report writing time and in this stack are the subject reports for my class..all printed ..1 page per subject and there are 9 pages per student at the moment..I have been proofreading all the pages-some I have written and some have been done by other subject teachers ... then  writing a final comment  for each front page..and now they will be off to our Year 7 dean tomorrow for her to sign.. then on to the principal...whew..am I going to be glad to pass them on..

..now I can get back to sewing at night...just for a change..

It's out with the old...

My poor old lamp has finally had it...it fell apart the other night as I was sewing at night.  The lights on my sewing machine just don't do it at night so an extra light is a must..

                                     

I already knew that  'white' light suited me better than the yellowish glow of this old halogen lamp ...so when it fell apart it was the perfect time to say goodbye to it and go shopping for a new one...there was not a lot of choice in town but this is the one I came home with..it will get a good trial this week as I work on finishing a few things...well that is the plan after I finish writing some school reports ..

               

Im back.... with FNWF

After a few weeks of blogging silence, I'm back to share what I worked on Friday night.  I had the writing stitched before Friday and did all of the rest on Friday night and did my fingers notice all that stitching!!  I had a bit of trouble focusing at one stage so a little closing of the eyes and I was back into it.  Saturday saw me putting on the borders and then starting to do a little quilting.....this one is for me...unlike the other secret sewing that I have been doing....

                                 

..no pear tree in the garden so I looked for something else and chose this one..

Ratbag

My FNSI night was spent making a 'ratbag'.  DD2 is going to a themed fancy dress for her friend's birthday...she is going as Princess Bubblegum ( from the Adventure Time cartoon) She made the outfit and then just needed a pet rat to complete it and that is what I ended up doing for her.  So not finding a pattern I had to make one with a bit of trial and error and a few sheets of paper...and it ended up being a combined rat and bag so a phone and small purse could fit inside...here is the end result..and it had to be these colours in this order... 

                

            

Friday Night With Friends

A little late in posting about Friday Night...a busy weekend not all spent with needle in hand..there was some handstitching on Friday night and then I cut out all the pieces needed to start working on an embroidered workbasket that was in an Inspirations Magazine.  One of the ladies in our little lace group had made one last year and so two of us decided that we would like to make it as well.

I managed to find a copy of the magazine and have been meaning to start it all year.  

When I was at our lace group 2 weeks ago I saw how much the other lady had made ..eeeek... I need to get myself going on it..so here is the photo of the workbasket from the magazine,,the pattern piece for the outside and the threads I am using..I'm using DMC as that is all I could get locally...so now I need to trace all those lines on 6 pieces for the outside parts first...and start the backstitch..

The weather has been up and down here..on Saturday we woke to light snow on the hills and some on the ground and a chilly day..on Sunday we basked in the top temperature for the country..a 'balmy' 20 degrees...but sad to say today has been cold and wet with hail showers..still life isn't too bad..at least we don't live in Auckland where many people have been without power since early Sunday morning...not good enough...