It’s July

 

June went  very quickly and it’s the beginning of July and above is my monthly marker for this month.  I made this knitted mitre sampler as part of The Summer of Stitching by the Bakery Bears Patron project during June.  I’d not made a knitted mitre blanket before and this pattern was really neat and I enjoyed making it.

June saw me getting stitches of a different sort as just before going away and getting ahead of the washing when I tripped and fell as I was going back into the house. I caught my forehead on the sharp corner of the brickwork by the door frame cutting it open with a deep wound.  A visit by the paramedics followed by going to Accident and Emergency, then a long wait in the afternoon to be seen and receive 4 stitches. I had bruising to the forehead and around the chin, which fortunately went down after a week,

Then yesterday, while I’m away on holiday near Durham, I went to Peterlee Hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre to have the stitches removed. I’m pleased how well the resulting scar is healing. This month I will be getting my eyes tested and some new glasses as the specs were a casualty. Although they have been repaired (hing was bent and the nose pad also bent out of shape). 

Anyway, what else have I been up to last month?  The Knit and Natter Group were asked to make baby hats for Bournemouth Hopital’s new maternity wing, so I contributed 2 hats.

I have been sewing before going away making quilt tops. One was one from my stash and the second is a Project Linus quilt kit.  They have been layered up and will be ready to quilt during July but it won’t be ready for the next Project Linus coffee morning this month.

I used what I had of Mr Men and Little Misses fabrics along with other fabrics to tone in with them. I didn’t want the seams to match, but somehow in the bottom row matches with thw row above. But they are cheerful fabrics,

The PL kit seemed to have my name on it, so I had to take it.  Again it’s layered and waiting to be quilted.

I made 2 ATC’s this month, one a bit late for this month and the second a bit early to get ahead! The first one was summer and it made me think of strawberries 🍓 . I used watercolours to paint the card.

For my July ATC the theme is red and I found a piece of fabric with a pattern that fitted the size of card. With a piece of felt underneath I embroidered with red thread and attached to red card with blanket stitch. I added a bit of sparkle with stick on gems.

So that was June, very brief.  I haven’t kept up with blog posts of late but I hope to catch-up next week,