Week 2 of the Stitchalong and a reveal...

 

I'm sharing part two of the Stitchalong a day early as its my birthday tomorrow and I shall be enjoying a morning tea with hubby and the family, and then a quiet rest of the day at home, possibly making tomato sauce, and possibly beginning a new project. I shall see how the day progresses, but you can be sure I'll be taking things easy. 

Have you stitched the first six hexie flowers? Or will you be using the little embroideries for a different project? I'd love to know what you're making. 

My final decision for displaying the twelve hexie flowers was a sewing machine cover. I had a few other ideas but kept coming back to that, so then it was just a case of measuring up the size I needed and playing around with my hexie flowers for a pretty arrangement. 

I liked the idea of filling empty spaces in and around the flowers with hexagon shapes in running stitch, and the overall effect was better than I'd hoped. 

I apologise for the quality of the photos, but it is threatening rain this afternoon and the overcast skies make the house very dark inside. 

My machine cover is 25" x 20" and the hexie flowers have been needleturned onto a linen background, the same linen I used for the embroideries, which also happens to be the very same recycled linen sheet I have used for a number of projects so far this year. 

I added medium weight fusible Pellon before hand quilting the running stitch hexies. The cover was completed with more reycled fabric for the lining, and some extra pieces of the Tilda Sunday Brunch fabric for the side ties. 

 

Use the link below to download the pattern sheet for the final six stitcheries...

DOWNLOAD part two of the Sunday Brunch Hexie Stitchalong

Next week, as requested by many, I'll have a recipe file for all those yummy things I made HERE in the previous post, and I also want to chat more about being a homemaker, and the various responsibilites that entails. Looking back in time, I have discovered some fascinating things to share with you.

In the meantime, I will be praying you each have a lovely weekend ahead, days of joy and delight, even if things are hard at the moment. A lesson this week for myself, has been to let go of what is no more, and see with new eyes what is still before me. 

You see, now that our huge poinciana tree is no more, I am sorely missing all the birds who visited every day and made their nests in the thick limbs and branches, because birds are my favourite creatures and living amidst abundant birdlife has been a source of inexpressible joy for me. Many of you already know that from all the bird photos I have shared over the years.

But today a kookaburra sat on the power pole out front, my favourite bird, and I felt the arms of God hugging me. Then cockatoos returned to our bird feeder, followed by the rainbow lorikeets. Just before I began writing this our old Black-faced Ibis friend was wandering through the garden with his long beak, digging for worms, and then a sweet song from the tiny honeyeater in our pretty Maraya bush serenaded me when I gathered washing off the line as tiny raindrops began to fall. 

Life will always have its losses, but the Lord also provides joys, often in unexpected times or ways. For me this time, you may think 'its just a tree', and you'd be right, but it was our tree, and it had a story behind it that we shall remember, just as we remember how we lost it. 

The Bible tells us in Ecclesiates 3:1, "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." I find many things in that verse - comfort, hope, acceptance, and even contentment. I pray you feel the loving arms of God hugging you today if things are hard, or you're feeling lonely or concerned. Fall into His Word, and let His love surround you, dear one. 

Until next week, 

Love and hugs 

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