FINALLY SOME FINISHES

I've been doing some sewing.  Here are a few things I've finished. 
I showed you this WIP a while ago and now it's finally finished and living at it's new home.  I love how it turned out very cute and girly.

A friend had a baby boy a few weeks ago so I made him a cute little quilt.  I used a mix of reds, blues and greys.  I decided to keep it simple and do a strip quilt to show off the Robots and Stars fabrics.  I quilted it with straight lines to keep with the strip theme.

This the back of the quilt.  I love how the straight line quilting stands out on the back.  The binding is in a solid red which I think finishes it off nicely.  Irena if you are reading my blog please look away now.  I will be taking this to her next week.

Have a great week. 





HAPPY EASTER

Hi everyone it's been a while since my last post...........again.  I have been really slack.


Anyway I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter.  Hope the easter bunny brought you lots of yummy chocolates.  I got heaps and ate way too many today and now I'm feeling quite sick.........blahhh!!!!!!

HAPPY 2011

Happy 2011 to everyone in blogland. 

It has been a while since I last posted.  6 months to be exact.  The last 6 months I have been busy working almost fulltime and spending time with the family and keeping up with the everday madness.  With all that happening I haven't had much time to get on the computer so my poor little blog has been neglected and so has my sewing.  Hopefully with a new year started I can get back on board and start blogging and sewing again.

I took off 4 weeks from work over Christmas and we went away to our beach house.  Lots of reading and relaxation happened there and I also managed to get some sewing done. 

Here are a few things I have been doing over the last 6 months.

 A cushion for a friend that had a baby over 3 months ago.......better late than never!!! 

A quilt I'm making for my brother which I was going to give to him for his birthday in June last year but I didn't get it finished.  And then I was going to give it to him for Christmas but surprise surprise I didn't get it finished.  So it will be done for his birthday in June this year.............fingers crossed.

A few blocks I made up because I love these fabrics and colours.  Not sure what I'm  going to do with them yet.

Before Christmas I taught my friends 8 year old daughter how to sew by hand and she made herself a cute little cushion.  After she got the hang of it she wanted to learn on the sewing machine so I got her started on a quilt and this is what she has done so far.  She picked up sewing very quickly and has done a great job.

Another baby quilt I'm working on.  

Jarrod starts his first year of high school on Monday so I have been busy contacting and labelling these.

Well that's what I've been up to since July.  I'll try not to neglect my blog for that long again.

I will be around to visit your blogs soon.  Have a great weekend.

BLUE AND GREEN BABY QUILT

I finished the quilt for Julia's dancing teacher and I LOVE IT!!!!!  I don't want to give it away.  This is the first time I've done free motion quilting and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  I really enjoyed doing this type of quilting compared to straight line quilting, no stopping and starting all the time just non stop quilting and it didn't take very long to do either. 

Here it is.  The photos aren't the best it was a horrible rainy day today.

( The front)

(and the back)

I really enjoyed working on this and I will definately be making more of these baby quilts.

A big thank you to Julia for holding up the quilt for the photos.  Being a cloudy day today I had to take alot of photos to finally get a good one and her poor little arms were hurting after holding it for so long.  I think she deserves a chocolate after her hard work. 

Have a great weekend.

GONE QUILTING

I finally got the courage to do the free motion quilting on the baby quilt I spoke about in my last post.  They say practice makes perfect and that's what I have been doing for the last week and it has paid off.  This is my progress so far and I'm pretty happy with the result. 

So for now I've gone quilting and I'll be back soon with a finished quilt. 

Have a great week.

BABY QUILT TOP

The quilt top for baby Sebastian is finished.  I love how it turned out and how well the fabrics all go together.  It was a really quick and easy quilt to sew and I love how the fabrics stand out on the grey background.  I was going to use white as the background but the fabrics just didn't look right, I'm happy I went with the grey.  I have decided I'm going to get out of my comfort zone of straight line quilting and give stippling a go.  Stippling is an all over squiggly, swirly type pattern.  I'm going to have to do some practicing before I work on the real thing so for the next few days I will be practicing and hopefully I master the technique.  Be back with a finished quilt soon.


Have a great week.

YES I'M STILL ALIVE

Hi everyone time has flown by so quickly.  I hope you are all well.  I will be around to visit your blogs soon and thanks to the lovely girls who emailed me to check if I was ok.  Yes I'm fine I've just been very very busy sewing, renovating and spending time with the family.

 Just want to share a few things that have been happening around here the last few months.

 The renovations are still going.  Finally the study is finished.  We still have to furnish it but that has to wait for a while because I will be moving my bed in there while my bedroom is being renovated.  I will post photos when it's all finished.


The kids now have their own bedrooms.  Jarrod's bedroom is not finished it needs to be painted and the floorboards need to be replaced to match the rest of the baltic pine in the house.  That will be done after my bedroom is finished. 


Julia's bedroom is finished well sort of.  I still have to paint her dresser and sew some cushions and decorate it. 


Anyone recognise the fabric in the curtain? That's the Cabbage Roses fabric that most of us all bought and used a few years ago.  I bought several metres back then and put it away, I'm so glad I did as I love how it turned out.  Her bedroom was our old dining room that had a brick fireplace in it.  We wanted to keep that feature in the house so we installed a cast iron fireplace and timber mantle.  I'm pretty happy with how it looks.

 

I'm hoping by Christmas the inside will be all finished.  Fingers crossed. 


Jarrod had his Confirmation a few weeks ago.  We had a small party for him at home.  46 kids got confirmed on the night and the church was packed and noisy.  We couldn't see or hear much but it went well and the kids enjoyed themselves.  Here he is with his mates outside the church.  That's him on the end with the striped shirt.

Now that all my custom orders are finished I can get back to my usual sewing.  At the moment I am playing with these fabrics.

I'm making a baby quilt for Julia's dancing teacher who had a gorgeous baby boy a few weeks ago.  Just two more rows to sew on and I'll post some photos hopefully tomorrow.

Have a great week.