A New Project

Well why not ! This one just called to me . A friend Karen did this as a Block of the month a year or so ago . It's just come out as a pattern so I bought it and a fabric starter kit . It is From Jen Kingwell at Amitie.


These are actual photos from Karens

My creativity for the Day

I had an urge today to make a little dress for Miss Talula but I am supposed to be packing and sorting so I did a little of that . I moved a chest of drawers and emptied the big expedit shelves in my sewing room then I did a little baking A fudge cake slice some raspberry muffins and vanilla cup cakes maybe I can sneak in a little stitching tomorrow.

Part 2……

On the second day of the class we were shown how to make a paper pattern of the figure we wanted to create from our painted canvas and our felt.

I decided to draw an owl shape , and also a figure similar to the ones Elizabeth does.

This is my owl and I have started to cut feathers from my felt.

This is my face I still have to layer with a backing and some wadding and more embellishment and stitching This was so much fun. I have already made a pattern to do a bird but will finish these ones first.

Another fun thing was to make a fat cigar from different coloured wool rovings  and then chop them into segments, They look like lollies almost good enough to eat !

This is one of Elizabeths finished figures, I just love them, very quirky…

Fun Felting Workshop

Last weekend I was able to attend a Felting Workshop with Elizabeth Armstrong from Victoria, a group of us met at an amazing location At Kirra overlooking the ocean at the Southern end of the Gold Coast . The first day we painted Canvas that was to be used for our back ground of the figures we were to make.

I did these three, Nice and bright ! I used stamps and different items for texture.

We then made felt from the lovely coloured wool rovings  almost good enough to eat they  are so soft and the colours were gorgeous.

Rovings all laid out.

Some extra silk threads and rovings added for colour and texture.

Then add some olive oil soap  and water and the felting process begins , lots of rolling in bubble wrap and  even throwing the piece around  put it out in the sun to dry and you end up with a piece of felt fabric that was really hard to cut up But the project was to make our own pattern and make a figure .

I,ll blog a bout the rest tomorrow !

Not enough hours in the day !

Hi I am back ! The last couple of months have gone so fast . I have lots to show for it though. We have our retirement house all completed at Moore Park Beach, before I left to go up there for 3 weeks I had 2 Quilting retreats to go to, one in June and one 3 weeks laterso In that 4 weeks I finished 6 quilt tops !

This Ruby from a Jelly roll and some extra (20) white strips . I saw a tutorial for it on http://sameliasmum.com/ It was fun to do and now I will do another one the same for  Guest room

This one is for our lounge room, the nights at Moore Park were quite cold so something to snuggle under watching T V .

I made 2 of these for Talula’s room  I still have the binding to finish on one .

Most of my sewing gear is at Moore Park beach now so the 3 weeks I had up there were great and I love the way my new quilting room works .  The downside is I am still based  here and did I tell you I hate this sorting packing throwing , must admit I am becoming quite ruthless now . I,m over it but there is still a way to go.

Where did you get that Hat….and Bag

A couple of weeks ago I did a class with Wendy Bailye Oh what fun . I had done a little felting many years  ago . To actually almost finish 2 articles in a weekend workshop…. amazing..

This is the wool rovings we started with.

This is the bag after cutting the opening  and felting down various silks and rovings .

Finished Bag minus handle.

Wool RovingsAdding prefelt dotsFinished Hat !

I loved this and plan to do lots more Wendy was a great teacher and I can now see I will do more wet felting and also use my embellisher More such Fun .

Finally time to Blog

The last few weeks have been a blur . 3 Funerals in 3 weeks , I also lost my Little Dog Sophie She was 15 years old and had a great life, We will miss her lots .

Rest In Peace Sophie xxx

 

Ivé bought some gorgeous new fabric, Vintage Modern by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Its very similar to there previous ranges called Bliss and Ruby . Of course I have several of those as well.

Yum,  I am going to a week long retreat on Friday, so hope to make a start on some of these gorgeous fat quarters and charm squares etc .

Well I promise to get better at blogging more regularly .We have started repainting the inside of the house as we get it ready to put on the market, I really do have to get serious about giving more stuff away, or it will just not fit into my new studio…bye for now  P.

Hello remember Me ?

Well I am back . The last few weeks have passed in a blur. A couple of weeks up north, Two weeks in New Zealand, some classes, Also packing and moving things around to be able to paint the house.I am trying a blog post via my iPad can't figure out how to get pictures so will do another post when I get home.

What I have been up To

The days and weeks go so fast. I made this small quilt for a mini quilt swap it was to be no bigger than 24”square. I used  a charm pack and some white backing fabric . It is a pattern I adapted from the Moda Bake Shop.

I can’t manage to get my pictures on flickr and am still waiting for my swap to arrive.

I also made a Jelly Roll Race quilt, everyone is either making them or talking about them, I did this one when I was up at the house.

Well Gary Yes ‘that’s  the dog I,m talking about thought it was great.!  I’ll add some borders to make it a little bigger.  Plus all the hand applique on my Dancing Dollies is still happening .

Late Post of swap goodies….

This is a post I should have done a while ago, in 2011 I did the secret santa stocking swap with an online group through squilters. These are the wonderful presents I got . My partner was Helen C from Wauchope.

I loved them all and it was amazing that Helen was so close to the real me and what I like .