Quilts.

Another clever customer, this time ani & trio, who make these gorgeous hand made quilts. A gorgeous use of the Maggie’s Dress fabric by American Jane. Thanks for sharing that with us Anita!

Now this one was a long time coming- because I have always worked from my notebook and now I have a mac, I had to work out how to upload pictures on a mac. I know it’s not that hard and it’s sad but true, I have struggled to find the time to aquire this new skill. Priorities!!!

More crafty inspiration.

It must be the spring air, something about this time of year really inspires me to get crafty.

I’ve been promising kinder some new art smocks for over a term now (I was going to get them done last school holidays, oops!) I made the first two fine and they are much loved and paint spattered by now. Well, finally here are the last two.

Plus, I have two quilts on the go (yes, now I know I’m just bragging, or rather confessing as I often start these things and then they don’t really get finished very quickly).

I hope all this creativity inspires you to begin a new project (or finish an old one!)

Some inspiration for you.

I had to share this inpiring blog with you I’ve just discovered. It is by Kathryn who makes the most beautiful quilts under the label Maggie and Sparrow. I think she has a great eye.

I just adore this image- I absoloutely want an aqua room with a butter yellow armchair!

I’m so inspired, I want to drop all my work and go get pumpkin’s quilt top that I promised to finish him for his fourth birthday (he’s five now, by the way.)

If you’re very clever, you may notice some of the fabric that’s available in the shop. If you’re feeling all re-craft-ergised like me you could pop over and buy some!

That’s what I love about us… we’re always open!

We’re biased for bias binding

Spent the last few days taking and manipulating photos of our bias binding for the fabric store.

For all you quilters you can find our Bias Binding here.

So what do you think? Digital camera course earlier this year and a whole lot of practice with GIMP… hopefully these pics are starting to represent just how nice this bias binding is!

Aunty Cookie PANDA Hampers

The ever inspiring Shannon Lamden has been collecting craft donations to make up hampers which will be auctioned to raise funds for PANDA.You can read about it here and see the pics here. They all look so lovely!

This one has a pram quilt I made with my own two little hands.

PANDA is such an important charity, helping families who find themselves vulnerable and in desperate need of support. I’ve wanted to do something ongoing to support them for some time now. This has been a very inspirational kick up the bum to do that.

Thanks to Shannon for the enormous and fabulous effort and for the opportunity to contribute!

More delectable goodies!

More pressies today in the form of fabrics- yeeha! Wanna see?…

And some more?

Photographed some of my products today too, to see how they’d turn out for the store. Some more successful than others but there’s definitely a few I’ll find some use for.

TeePee

The kids just love their teepee. Mini booba loves to take his milk in there so he can lounge and drink. The big one wants us to build a loo annex onto the side.

My Craftwerk

I started quilting just over a year ago when I decided that making a quilt for my son’s first birthday present was a wonderful handmade heirloom I could give him that really meant something (we’ve been through a lot together, he and I) and would hopefully draw a line under what had been a very difficult year. The flip side of this was that taking the class was something that was also for me, a great way to rediscover the textiles which I had studied at uni and loved.

All of a sudden I was quilting any free chance I had and would carry it around with me in my nanna’s old knitting bag. I hand pieced my son’s “Lila” quilt top and had it machine quilted. I am so happy with how it turned out!

I have since hand pieced my older son the same quilt “Lila” in a different colour scheme (he loves green!). I just need to find that last push to finish it off so I can get it quilted!

I then made my brand new nephew Aden a wee bassinet sized quilt top with all the bits and bobs I had left over from the boy’s “Lilas”…

… my friend Victoria’s little girl a wee quilt (I’m addicted!)…

… my booba boy a wee quilt for his cot…

… my big pumpkin a wee quilt for his teddies…

… a couple for my etsy store…

… and one as a special commission for teeny tiny Owen (work in progress!)

All my other products have snowballed from these first quilts. I now make birdie mobiles, covered notebooks, rosette brooches, hair clips, button rings, flower rings, door stops and lots more products in the pipeline! You can visit my etsy store, where I send all my lovingly handcrafted goodies all over the world. I am also lining up some local markets to sell my products direct. Watch this space…

Quilts

Here are some bassinet/ pram sized quilts I’ve been making for my etsy store. They will also be available at the November Mathilda’s Market Malvern Town Hall, where I’ll be holding my very first market stall. I’m very excited!

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