Spring Cleaning!!

I'm going to follow in CAR'S footsteps and spring cleaning my unfinished projects out of the cuboard. I have a box of UFO's so need to get on with them.

1. Quilt and bind baby niece quilt - "Sunshine"

2. Make, quilt and bind Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt.

3. Finish embroidering Mop's quilt.

4. Make quilted angel

5. Make cloth pads

6. Make pillow case apron

7. Finish niece's xmas gift

8. Get up to date in DD1's album.

9. Mum's 25th WA scrapping.

10. Do photo shoot for Christmas cards.


10 projects to do over 3 months. I reckon it's acheiveable. :)

I'm looking forward to this. Wish me luck!!!

In honor of spring....

.....I decided to make something for summer!!!

Our cheap and nasty vinyl pool/beach/swimming bag gave up and is all feral and broken. So I decided to put the fabric I bought a few weeks ago to good use and made a new one. This bag is HUGE. It will fit all our towels, sunscreen, the odd floatie and it even has a little pocket inside to store our keys and phones.



I had some fabric left over, and I liked it so much that I made myself a new tote-bag..



I've also finished the quilt top for my brother's baby - but I'll take picks of that when I've quilted it. :)

Yes I know... I know!!!

I have been incredibly busy so haven't had as much time to blog all the creative things I've been making.

But in a nutshell - this is what I have done lately.

- finished up shopping bags to sell
- finished up handbags to sell
- make flower brooches to sell
- designed magnets, printed them, cut them up for selling
- made scented pillows to sell.
- made pincushions to sell.

I ordered some fabric from the USA and it arrived last week.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar panel and borders, for a play mat for my best friend's baby. As you can see, my kids were so excited to see it, their fingers kept getting in the photo. :)





And this range is called "Sunshine Serenade" and this will be a quilt for my new niece, my brother's first baby. I start hacking into it tomorrow ready to start piecing. :) I have about 15 weeks to get these two done, so I better get cracking!!





Today I had a crack at free motion quilting. I was worried it was going to be really hard, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. I just need to relax a little in my arms to get the movement REALLY fluid, but other than that, I am confident that by the time these quilts are pieced, I will be ready to machine quilt them. :) I shall keep practicing though as I can.

I probably won't be sewing up heaps of stuff now, apart from these quilts and maintaining my stuff to sell. Uni is pretty intense this semester. I have something due every week and because I am still fairly new at this, it takes me a long time to do my assesments. I have a text book to read and a massive essay due in 10 weeks time.

Christmas creating starts next month - since I am hosting Christmas, I would like to make some lovely things to go on the table. I'll show them off as I create them. I also want to make some nice bits for my Mum for Christmas, but will see how I go for time.

And that's all I have to say about that... :)