Travellin' Pic Stitch...

It's my turn at last!!  It seems like an age ago that Laura and Katy asked for volunteers to join them on their travels, and what travels they have been!


So I had a ponder, as is my way, and tried loading a few pics into the Play Crafts palette builder to firstly come up with my colour scheme.

I thought I would stay local, a local block for local people everyone!

For those who don't know this part of the UK, I live on the beautiful South Downs about 10 miles north of the West Sussex coast.  I work and previously lived in Worthing, a seaside town, predominately inhabited by the older generation.  On a sunny day, coach loads of even more older people descend to look at the sea.

Anyway, I tried some pics from my village...

 

A bit dull?

Some of the autumnal foliage...

A bit too, um, yellow?

A trip to the beach on a cloudy day...

Too grey, and too brown.

Another trip to the beach on a sunny day...

Perfect!

So I showed you my first attempt before...

Shocking to say the least!  But there was deep thought going on here, see those little diamonds on the front of the beach huts and everything!  I don't usually throw away any fabric but these, once they were partially sewn, were so horrible, dear friends, they went in the bin!

And so to my beloved Sizzix-cut hexies.  Now these I adore.  There was no plan other than fabrics I love and random.  So much more me...

A bit of a cheat?  Well the text print is from Crabtastic, and we all know that the British seaside is where you go to eat fish & chips out of old newspaper!

I immediately made this into a whopping Open Wide zipper pouch and have been using it for hexying on-the-go ever since!

So there you have it, my interpretation of my locality at its best.

Thank you for stopping by if you are new to my blog, and thanks to Laura and Katy for a superb idea, even if they were the only ones who actually got to gad about the Wiki-wiki Wild Wild West.

Tomorrow my lovely friend Sara of Sew Sweetness takes the TPS baton, and I cannot wait to see what she has come up with.

Don't forget that on 30th November everyone can link up for a chance to win these fabulous prizes!

Sponsored by Paperpieces.com, Fabricworm, Pink Castle Fabrics ,  Marmalade Fabrics, the Fat Quarter Shop, WantItNeedItQuilt, and Aurifil.

Full details for competition entry can be found here.

xxx

Hop to it!

So now I have the birthdays under my ample belt, I, well not just me, have just over a month to get ready for Christmas.  I have a HUGE list!

This week I plan to finish the teacher gifts, (Helen, they were still in the same place they were this time last week), finish my Stitch Tease Secret Santa gift, make a couple of infinity scarves, crack on with my Mum's hexie cushion, cut my Low Volume Swap charms and piece the backing for my Retro Flowers for my own piece of mind!

I will also be appearing in two fabulous blog hops.

Tuesday is my day on the Travellin' Pic Stitch epic world tour; I have been using my finished make for weeks, after the horrible false start, I think I came up with the goods.


Then on Thursday, (please remember to pop back after your Thanksgiving creamed corn, my US friends), I will be offering up some Christmas ideas as part of the Sizzix Quilting Blog Hop, look who else is on the list...

Monday 19th November - Angela Southey

Tuesday 20th November - Tacha Bruecher/Fat Quarterly

Wednesday 21st November - Katy Jones

Thursday 22nd November - Hadley Gordon

Friday 23rd November - Lynne Goldsworthy

Saturday 24th November - Lory Bucaria

How excited, and perhaps a little out of my league, am I!?

So there's no escaping it, Christmas is well and truly coming, and I am going to be ready... ha ha ha!

The one that got away...

I have been busy completing my big Sizzix project this evening, so I have had to scrape the bottom of my iPhoto barrel to find something you haven't seen!

Here is the Travellin' Pic Stitch block that got away, or rather, was sent packing.

It was going to be great... in my head.

However once I started joining those central points, I hated it; one swimming and a ballet lesson later and it got tossed aside.  Not. Feeling. The. Love. 

So I am now on mark II and feeling happy back in my comfort zone.

Well I have a regular, relatively stress-free Wednesday day off tomorrow, so I am aiming to be ultra productive and have loads to show you... famous last words x