~OPAM (One Project A Month) January~

I've signed up for OPAM again for this year with Sweet Peg and Gorgeous Kris again hosting for this year

2 Items completed this month

The first is a Kit for an Armchair Caddy above with some of the fabrics required......tape.......buttons and a couple of other little goodies

Coming together

All done and looking good next to some flavoured coffee I received for Christmas off my Mum

And the other one is my  little Parisian Purse I showed off over here

So pleased I have 2 items this month

Now I better get cracking on my next Tilda project

Thank you Peg and Kris for encouraging us in completing projects once again

Happy Stitching......Dzintra

OPAM...a workshop and Needlework Group Quilt

 Not a lot done for OPAM

 (One Project a Month) this month...

just these 2 little wallets...ideal for coffee cards and various other shopping

cards we all seem to accumulate...

This one was made for my dear Friend Geo as she had said to me that she would like one when I blogged about them for a previous OPAM...

I decided to put a little timber button on her one...a little angel as she loves angels!!!

Button is by Barb of Theodora Cleave...

Thank you to Peg and Kris  for hosting OPAM...a wonderful idea!!!

At the end of the week I am off to a workshop at Steph's...

called Quilt in Stitches...a workshop run to learn more about the stitches on my (nearly) new sewing machine...Only 2 fabrics required, a solid and a patterned...

I have chosen a tea dyed look homespun and Civil War fabrics...

Above right from left to right...

first one will be with the solid (also above left, in the centre)...the brown one also above left will be inner border...(1st left above)...the teal colour will be the outer border (above left, 3rd) and one of the other 2 will be binding...

And while on the Civil War I have received my copy of The Union Quilters, the latest book by Jennifer Chiaverini in the Elm Creek series...

thoroughly enjoying these books, especially the ones that talk about the Civil War/Slavery/life in the 1800's...all of which I find fascinating!!!

And here is a quilt top put together by Jenny from my Needlework Group which I have recently gone back to...still not driving though as arm is still a bit stiff and I don't feel confident...

All the stitcheries were done by ladies in the Group and the quilt will be raffled off later in the year...

Thank you to Fiona for organizing these stitcheries and quilt for us all...

Wouldn't it be lovely to win...it's oh sooo pretty!!!