List Update

1. N's Secret Santa gift
STATUS: COMPLETE

2. Mum's xmas present - quilted item
STATUS: Designed, fabric chosen, started creating

3. Mum's xmas present - 2 other items but can't blog them because she reads this!!

4. Milly's fairy skirt

5. Mop's quilted pillow
STATUS: Fabric chosen and cut ready for assembly

6. K's SS gift - tote bag (due 4th December)
STATUS: COMPLETE

7. Make Shell's shopping bag

8. Make placemats for Xmas table
STATUS: COMPLETE

9. Make Salt dough decorations with the kids
STATUS: COMPLETE

10. Bind Baby C's quilt (due early december)
STATUS: COMPLETE

11. Shopping bag for Mrs J.

12. Finish all the baubles

Advent Blog along

Ok, so I don't have enough to do obviously... but who am I to turn down anything to do with Christmas??

Car has started the annual Advent Blog-Along - in which we are supposed to blog every day, if possible with the lead up to Christmas. I actually saw it on her blog earlier today, and was umming and ahhhing about whether or not I should do it. But she convinced me with "You know you want to..." So I'm in.

So it starts on the 1st December.
If you want to join, just sign up HERE and let us all have a squizzy at what you are making, creating and doing to the lead-up to Christmas. I assume this is a crafty Blog-along.

She's makin' a list, she's checking it twice.

I'm taking a leaf out of Gail's book - she's done a massive list of all she needs to accomplish until Christmas.

1. N's Secret Santa gift - a tote bag (due 2nd December)
2. Mum's xmas present - quilted item
3. Mum's xmas present - 2 other items but can't blog them because she reads this!!
4. Milly's fairy skirt
5. Mop's quilted pillow
6. K's SS gift - tote bag (due 4th December)
7. Make Shell's shopping bag
8. Make placemats for Xmas table
9. Make Salt dough decorations with the kids
10. Bind Baby C's quilt (due early december)
11. Shopping bag for Mrs J.
12. Finish all the baubles

This could possibly be added to... let's hope I can get this all done!!

So stop just sitting here Skip, MOVE IT!!!

Change of plan..

So... this is what happened:

1. Finish binding besties quilt. DONE

2. 4 x quilted tote bags for gifts. DECIDED THAT THEY CAN HAVE ROCKY ROAD INSTEAD

3. Sew up a cute bag for Secret santa DISCOVERED I DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT COLORED FABRIC - WAITING FOR TRIP TO SPOTLIGHT ON FRIDAY

4. Find something to make for L for her birthday and make it! DONE

5. Attatch binding to DB's baby quilt. (QUICK! Before it's born!!!)STIL TO DO

Item # 4

This is L's birthday present. :)

It's a lovely, big, bright tote bag. :) I love it so much, I want one!!

Very Hungry Caterpillar playmat

It's finished!
To be quite honest it's a HUGE playmat so may be better as a quilt. Anyway - that's not my call....

I'm so proud with how it turned out. Milly Moo loves it so much, I am going to make her one - but make it a HUGE one. :)

Monday - Wednesday

Since this challenge thing is working out so well, here is the next three days challenge:

1. Finish binding besties quilt.
2. 4 x quilted tote bags for gifts.
3. Sew up a cute bag for Secret santa
4. Find something to make for L for her birthday and make it!
5. Attatch binding to DB's baby quilt. (QUICK! Before it's born!!!)

Results of challenge.

Well I did most of it! The only thing I didn't complete was the binding of the quilt. I have one more short side to do and it's done!! That should be finished tonight which is good! :)

So here it all is:

Reconstructed Dress:
This used to be a skirt - but it was so long and I felt like it made me look short and dumpy. My brother bought this for me as a birthday present. I have revamped it into an amazing looking sundress! It looks lovely on as well!!



Besties change mat:
You may remember some months ago, I made a nappy bag with a change mat in it. My bestie didn't want to use the change mat as a change mat because it was made with chennille. So... I made her another one she COULD use - with PUL backing. Let me say one thing. PUL is a pain in the butt to work with!! :(
But here it is:





Pram Bag
I made this one as a gift a few days ago:


I loved it so much and I thought I would benefit from it, so I made myself one to use when out and about with Milly Moo. Here it is:



I also completed the xmas cards - which are in the previous post, and I will show off the quilt when it's completed. :)

2 Christmas cards and a partridge in a pear tree

Tuesday - Thursday

Yesterday was such a productive day. I didn't finish the quilt, but I got about 75% of it quilted. I plan to do the rest tonight when it's not so hot.

I'll upload the photos of the pram bag when I take them off the card. At the moment I can't be bothered. :)

But this is the Christmas card I designed - it's for my son's kindy teachers and his therapists. Still more to make though....



So I have set a new challenge for myself: I have from Tuesday night - Thursday night to complete the following:

1. Finish quilting and bind to finish besties baby quilt.
2. Finish reconstructed dress
3. Make bestie's change mat
4. Make myself a pram bag :) (I liked the one I made so much!!)
5. Design 2 more Christmas cards

Today today, it's all or nothing...

Right, I've been struggling to get my mojo back after my uni year has finished. So today I am going to to set myself a challenge. There are a few things I want to do in the 6 hours I have until DH and will want some dinner and then I have tonight as well. The challenge is I want to get these things done today.

1. Make a pram bag.
2. Attatch backing to besties quilt and quilt it.
3. Design a Christmas card

So let's rock n roll!!

Spring Challenge Update # 2

Well I am going along quite slowly because the last few weeks have been really tied up with wrapping up the uni year. However last night I finished my big research assignment so now I am free to sew to my hearts content and knock off a few projects!!

1. Quilt and bind baby niece quilt - "Sunshine"
----- STATUS: Quilted - just need to bind

2. Make, quilt and bind Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt.
----- STATUS: Fabric cut - considering not binding but making it a play mat.

3. Finish embroidering Mop's quilt.
---- STATUS: Did a little while I as away.

4. Make quilted angel

5. Make cloth pads
------ STATUS: made some, but got annoyed with machine. Will attempt to finish soon

6. Make pillow case apron

7. Finish niece's xmas gift
------STATUS: DONE

8. Get up to date in DD1's album.
------ STATUS - DONE

9. Mum's 25th WA scrapping.

10. Do photo shoot for Christmas cards.
----- STATUS: DONE