Star Wars Cross Stitch Project Bag for Hubby's Birthday
Hello friends,
Recently I made a Star Wars cross stitch project bag for hubby for his birthday. He loves both Star Wars and cross stitching, so I though I'd combine the two for his birthday present this July.
For a job, I sew, and also weave, fabric into various textile products that I sell in my store Hearth and Oak on Felt (a New Zealand artisan online market place similar to Etsy), and one of the products I make regularly are cross stitch project bags. So all I had to do was pull out my cross stitch project bag pattern and got to work cutting out the fabric, and then sewing it up. Luckily I had a black zip in storage to help sew the bag up.
And here is the cross stitch project all sewn up. I think it looks really great with the fabric and the blocks of colours, and I really like the black zipper, rather than the usual white ones I use for work.
On hubby's birthday, I gave him the cross stitch bag as a gift, along with a new cross stitch project all kitted up. He loves his new bag to store his cross stitch WIPs in, and this way our cat Rosie won't get into his projects and try to eat the DMC floss...
Have a wonderful day
Julie-Ann
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Seed Saving And Storage In Autumn 2025
Hello friends,
Recently I finally got around to sorting out the last of my seed saving efforts for autumn.
First up I sorted out the pumpkin and tomato seeds I had drying on paper towels. It didn't take too long to clean up, package and label my Baby Bear, Grey Crown, and Kakai pumpkin varieties, along with my Island Bay Tomato seeds.
Next up was dealing with all the flower seeds drying in the garage. I had two different stashes of Calendula officinalis seeds, a mixed container of seeds from various Calendula plants around the garden, and one container with seeds from the Calendula Strawberry Blonde variety I had growing. It didn't take very long to sieve them using my soil sifter, which I use for seed clean up.
I then sifted my Nigella, Love in the Mist, seeds I collected from various plants in the front garden.
And I also cleaned up and then stored mixed Cosmos seeds I collected from all the Cosmos varieties I grew over the summer. The seed sifter's multiple sieves came in handy, as there was quite a bit of flower bits in the mix.
In my seed clean up session I also found packets of Zinnia, Sulpur Cosmos, and Sweet Peas I had collected earlier in the autumn, but had not had a chance to store away yet.
With all that organising done, it was time to stow all the seeds away for the winter. I now have three matching seed storage containers, with one each for vegetable seeds, flower seeds, and herb and dye plant seeds. It didn't take very long at all to store all the seeds away in their appropriate containers. These containers make it so much easier to store the seeds, and then pull them out in smaller sections for seed sowing.
With that big job done, there's nothing more to do until the seed catalogues come out in the coming months, when I need to go through each box and check if I need to replace any seeds I wish to grow next spring.
Have a wonderful day
Julie-Ann
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