on track for a crafty 09!

Well I am off to a great start, and the lst two days have been actually really good. Yesterday the kids were at daycare, so I had a whole day to sew which was fantastic. The frist part of the day was spent carpetting the luxurious dolls house in which Miss 2.5's dolls are lucky enough to reside. Yep, 2 story, fine furniture and now with lovely dep burgundy, velvet carpet!

Mum Finally got her Chrissy present, in Jan!! Slight late although she had seen it as a WIP. So here is the finished product, although on my dinner table not heres. She has used it for her coffee table.

I have also finished the quilt for the newest arrival to A & T's family, Isabella. It's called "Bella Bambina" and is a simple randon rectangle design. I haven't taken any photos of the quilt binded, but I will label it tomorrow and take some pics before dropping it off on monday.

My Cousins littlest one AShley, 7months is in hospital at the moment, the poor little man caught some kind of infectio and it has affected his kidneys. he is in hospital for a while and the family has moved into Ronald McDonald house. So i thought i would make a Quilt to brighten up his hospital cot. Called it "spots and stars". I initially had 3 different types of 4 square blcoks but one had red it in and seems to get lostwhen all put together, so I whipped up a couple more of the other 2 blocks and these look much fresher. Definately cheery, which was the intent. Will pin this tonight and hopefully quilt tomorrow. X through the 4 square blocks and either an X or a star in the larger red blocks.

Dh had been asking for a satchel type bag big enough for his laptop for a while now. I found the fabric a while ago, brown homespun, coupled with a funky brown and white jungle print, i just hadn't found the pattern. Anyway, found it on the web, and this is the result. Dh is very impressed, as is using it for either laptop, or if he is going out without computer, it holds his diary and pens, walle and phone. It's a MANBAG!! LOL. anyway, i was pleased with the overall reults, although made a few small mistakes. His is lined with left over cotton qilt batting.

Of course, the kids, being such mini me's, decided that the must both have a bag the same as Daddy. They both insisted on purple, not sure why, but so found a contrasting floral for little miss, and a rainbow pirate fabric for master 4. This time I used iron on interfacing rather than the batting, which made it much easie rto work with. Althoguh this time I tried to go from memory, thiking as I only made the other yesterday, i couldn't have possibly forgotten, but i had to unpick 3 stages as I had forgotten simple steps, like putting the straps on the worng way, and forgetting to lin gthe flap at the top. Oh well, a good learning experience, and the kids were happy with the finished product. Please excuse Little Miss' lack of clothing, we are in the midst of Toilet training, and guess what she is now keeping in her bag? yep Knickers!! LOL.

Okay, so thats it from me today, a long one I know, but i have been so productive!! I will pin the quilt tonight, hopefully quilt tomorrow, and then I just have the WISP, a quilt (double bed size) for MIL, which i would like to at least have cut out before I go back to work!

Oh, I almost forgot, we went garage saling this morning and I stubled across a tub of old quilting and patchworl, and homemade mags. Picked out a few went to pay and the lvoely lady said, oh love, they're free, i'm just giving them away!! well, i marched straight back and got my self a clean 20 or so!!!! wow. These are $8 mags, all in tip top nic, with patterns that don't really date. I am so impressed, and hoping that there is some inspiration amongst my garage sale bargain!!

Love and Stiches,

Sharyn

A quilt some table runners and christmas in between!

I Finally got some projects finished and even finished some projects in time to be given as Christmas Gifts.

The first thing finished was a quilt for our new nephew / cousin Jack who was born on Dec 11th. It was done in a red and white colour base for the top as it is what they had done their nursery in, as the didn't know whether they were having a boy or a girl. I then just backed and binded it in boy fabric once he arrived. I was happy with the overall finish of the quilt, especially the backing as the zoo print was just gorgeous and then X design quilting looked fantastic. I had to use two fabrics int he binding, as i just didnt have enough of either one, so i just joined it on the bias with equal lengths of each fabirs and it came out with a better overall effect than i had anticipated. So here is the finished project.

And of course, he is the star himself, complete with 2 very proud, first time cousins!!

The other projects were table runners, which i decided 3 days before Chrsitmas to make 3 of, for presents. They all made it, almost on time, although my mum's, which is the one in the pic, will be hand delievered this weekend as we head up for the wedding. She has seen in as a WIP so knows that I didn't just leave her off the list! It is a pattern that I found on the net, listed as easy but i knew that i wasn't very experienced so read easy as " a challenge" for me. I did pink and cream and green for mum's, and her's is an all year round pattern, with only a slightly xmasy fabric for the backing and binding. The other two we much more chrismassy, with Jenny's being pink, a green a gold xmas fabric, and a white and gold xmas fabric. Cece's was very traditional xmas with red/gold, green/gol and white/gold fabrics. Unfortunately in my excitement of acually having completed the presents in time for xmas I forgot to take a pic of them, but they are the same pattern as this one, just the colour variations.

These are of course WIP pics, i just have to finish the binding ont his one and then i will post the finished pics.

I am just working on a quilt for newly arrived (3/1/09) Isabella Ann and then I ahve my MIL's quilt to cut out and a few handbag prjects to complete. I have also found a nice pattern for a satchel for DH which is great, as I have had the fabric for a while have just been looking for a pattern.

Until next time, happy sewing.

Sharyn