WE ARE GOING TO THE ZOO

Well, I'm not really going to the zoo, it's the name I gave the lastest quilt I made.  I didn't just want to call it green and yellow baby quilt that's pretty boring.  It has cute baby zoo animals on it so I thought the name suited it. 

I made this quilt for a friend for her baby shower a few weeks ago.  I needed to make a gender neutral quilt as I didn't know the sex of the baby.  I think green and yellow is perfect for a girl or boy.  She loved. 

I tried different quilting on this one and did some loopy type quilting.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Front of the quilt

Back of the quilt 

I've also been busy making market bags and pouches.  This one is for Julia she chose the fabrics.

I made this one for my mum.  Her favourite colour is purple and she loved it.

This one is mine.  Love these fabrics.

A few custom orders for some little girls.  I love red and blue and anything with polka dots.

Pink polka dots and cherries so cute.

I also made a matching pouch to go with the cherry bag.  I need to make one to match the red and blue bag too.

Back to the sewing room.

Have a great weekend.

BIRTHDAY QUILT

I finally finished my brothers quilt which I gave to him for his birthday on Saturday.  I've been working on it for over a year inbetween all my other projects and it's the biggest quilt I've made to date.  

 I decided to machine quilt it myself after almost having a heart attack when being told how much it will cost to have it done by my local quilt shop.  They quoted me $150.00 which is crazy. 

 At first I wasn't too happy about having to quilt it myself.  I was worried that it was too big and I'd have a hard time quilting it and that it would turn out horrible but I took my time and it turned out perfect no puckers at all.  I did have a few needles break on me and thread breakage which was very frustrating but I was so happy with the result it was all worth it.  I'm already planning the next one. 


It measures 180cm x 230cm.  I was going to add another row to the side to make it big enough for a double bed but I had enough of those blocks and just wanted to get it finished.  It's a great size to use on the couch on these freezing cold nights.  Anyway my brother loved it. 

Front of the quilt 

Back of the quilt which I almost like more than the front 

I was inspired to make the quilt after seeing this quilt made by the very talented Jacquie on flickr.  I emailed her and she was very  nice and told me what fabrics she used.  I love reading her blog she is very talented. 

Ok back to sewing.  I have a few cushions to do for a friend and a baby quilt for a baby shower that is coming up in July.

Have a great week.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Hi everyone.  Happy Mothers Day I hope you had a great day and got spoilt.  My day was good, had dinner with all the family. 

A little bit of sewing going on here.  Another personalised name cushion that was a custom order.  She loved the "MIA" name cushion I made and wanted something similar.  This one is rectangle and very large and I trimmed this one with fluffy pom poms. 

Also forgot to post about this way back in February.  We have a new addition to the family.  No no I didn't pop any babies out.......lol.  It was Jarrod's birthday in February and he has been asking for a pet so we gave in and got him one.  She is so cute and her name is Fergie.

Look at that cute face.

I bet you were expecting a dog or cat.

Still working on my brothers quilt which I hope to finish soon.  I'm over it and need to start something new.

Have a great week.

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.