A Long Weekend

Its holiday weekend - four days at home. Thus I have been busy creating more machine embroidered bag. These are aimed at people. It was quite a challenge to someone else's colour likes. The pink and blue ones are for two ladies I work with. They saw someof my other work and said they liked it ... They help me out so I thought I would create them something special.
They were both confused as last week I asked their favourite colour but would not tell them why.


Pink was amazing to create. It is not my colour at all and I was amazed that I had enough different piece of fabric in pink shades. I did buy a ball of fluffy pink wool but everything else came out the scrap box !


This one is made of leather... although not the thick heavy stuff. I was amazed that the machine was able to machine though the thickness. The button holding it shut came from my friend D whom will be given this piece. He has always helped with my art, sat a listerned to my crazy ideas , given his opinion and visited my show....



This one was based on peacock blue as a colour selelction. I have added elements of gold and green too ....

I also got round to finishing the birth sampler for my Niece's new baby. We are visiting them in the next week. DH said he would help me find a frame too ! It is by Sisters & Best Friends... I thought it was very modern which I hope K likes !!


So what else have I been up too over the last three days ??

Got into the garden, added an extra border by the green house digging in extra farm muck before planting out two rubarb roots. Got going on with the cutters, giving some of our larger bushes a bit of a hair cut !
Also set up seed trays in the green house for peppers, sunflowers, corgettes , brocolli, lettuce and spring onions =)

Saturday evening DH took me out to a great Italian in the village. It was a bit of a celebration as I had recieved a lot of good feed back at work from senior managers at work and been told that a extra reward would be in the pay packet soon =)

The rest of time has been taken up with relaxing with my cross stitching and the TV or radio !

Hope everyone has had a good weekend !