Well here are the things I have finished in the last couple of months:
1) An Elvis Tree Skirt – a Christmas Present for my mum
Elvis Tree Skirt, a Christmas present for my mum.
2) 2 Aprons – birthday presents for my sister and sister in law:
I made 2 of these, exactly the same but forgot to take a photo of the first one.
These are made using the Apron in a hour tutorial.
3) The quilt for my Mother in Law:
This is my first quilt (since a school assignment) and I started it in August at the stitches & craft show, it was professionally quilted by the lovely ladies at Hobbysew Kings Park and the binding was finally sewn on after Christmas.
Well the quilt I started for a combined Birthday & Christmas present for my MIL is finished and has been given to the recipient, however I forgot to take any photos of the finished product, so I will take some on Thursday when I drop DS of and post them after that.
I also managed to finish a couple of other things for Xmas presents, but the photos are on the other computer so I will have to post them later as well.
My next quilting projects are:
1) Do the quilting on the quilt top I have made for DH (which will be a first for me, the other one I got done professionally)
2) Start the horse quilt. This is a project that I have been collecting fabric for the last 10 years for and now I am finally ready to start it, off to do some searching on some ideas for a design, thinking some sort of I-Spy design as I have over 40 different fabrics.
3) Start a quilt for DS, thinking of an I-Spy one for this one too.
I also want to get a start on Birthday and Christmas presents for the year so I have a collection of things done for when ever I need them.
I found this at Kylie’s blog. Which looked like fun. So here are my answers:
1. Been dive bombed by a magpie Yes
2. Have seen a crocodile Yep.
3. Have seen a snake in the wild Yep a couple of times. The scariest was when one made it’s way into the kitchen at the holiday camp I was working.
4. Been bitten by a snake or other aussie wildlife Don’t think so
5. Patted a koala Probably at Taronga Zoo as a child.
6. Seen a kangaroo in the wild - Yep, regularly near my parents place
7. Climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge -No
8. Climbed the Story Bridge in Brisbane Yep
9. Visited the Sydney Opera House - Yep, but never been to an event there
10. Swum at the beach Yep
11. Had fish and chips on the beach Yep, Fish and Chips always taste better at the beach
12. Been stung by a jellyfish No
13. Had sunburn that peeled Yep.
14. Camped under the stars Yes
15. Visited Uluru Not yet, on my list of places to visit though.
16. Driven the Great Ocean Road in Victoria Yes, for our Honeymoon
17. Seen the penguins on Phillip Island Victoria Yes, for our Honeymoon
18. Had an outdoor BBQ with Friends Yes
19. Played backyard/beach Cricket Yes, was always a fun activity at Grandparents when growing up
20. Watched a real cricket match live Yes, Test and One Dayers
21. Betted on the Melbourne Cup No
22. Attended the Melbourne Cup Live from Flemington No
23. Attended a live Aussie Rules or rugby football game Yes, Rugby is Preferred – Go the Brumbies, but have been to League and AFL games.
24. Ridden a Melbourne Tram Yes, always go on the Tram when in Melbourne.
25. Snow Skied in the “high country” of NSW/Vic No
26. Visited the Great Barrier Reef Technically as I’ve been to Brampton Island, but would love to go to Cairns and visit the main part
27. Been to Kakadu No, but on my list of places to visit one day
28. Crossed the Nullabour by road No, maybe one day
29. Gone down the Murray River on a paddle steamer No
30. Survived a cyclone No
31. Survived a bushfire Canberra 2003.
32. Experienced a big flood No
33. Know who the Wiggles are. Yes
34. Know who Humphrey the Bear is. Yes
35. Watched Play School as a kid or mum of a kid Both.
36. Watched Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Yes
37. Own an Australia Flag - No
38. Know the words to Advance Australia Fair Yes
39. Eat Vegemite Yes
40. Drink Milo Used to
41. Know what lamingtons are Yes, even made and eaten
42. Know what Pavlova is Yes, MIL makes great ones
43. Know what Tim Tams are Yes
44.Eaten a meat pie Yes
45. Gave or received a “dead arm” Yes
46. Have owned an Akubra hat Yes
47. Own/owned an Australia Cattle dog - No, Border Collies in my family.
48. Been to a B& S ball – or know what one is - Never been but know what one is
49. Drive a ute No, Sister does though
50. Say G’day Yep
51. Can cook damper -Yes, even taught American kids to make it when I worked on Summer camp there
52. Can make billy tea Nope, don’t drink tea so never tried to
53. Supported a sausage sizzle – Yes, buy from them regularly at hte hardware shop, fetes etc and even help out.
54. Own John Williamson CD/Music -Used to, took it to Summer Camp and it went missing.
55. Owned chooks or know what they are- Grew up with them.
56. Call the toilet “the dunny” – Not normally
57 . Wear thongs (on your feet…) Yes, especially in Summer
58. Support Aussie music Yes
59. Enjoy a beer No
60.Swallowed a fly Unfortunately Yes.
Ok so I am a day late for Sunday Stash as hosted by Tamara, but here is the latest additions to my stash:
A pile of fabric, mostly jersey for making clothes, purchased at the monthly fabric sale at Calvary Chapel this was the 2nd last fabric sale and so there were lots of bargains I picked up all the fabric above for $25, it was all decent sized remnants.
For those that are in Canberra the lat sale is going to be on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of November between 10 and 3. Well worth it if you like to make clothes.
And for a final piccie, here is my little man checking out the fabric:
A couple of weeks ago I signed up for the Lazy Days Skirt Sew along hosted by One Crafty Mumma well I am rather late but here is my finish creation:
It is for a friends daughters 1st birthday so hopefully I have made it small enough. I am seeing them on the weekend so I can check the waist band then.
Last weekend I visited a couple of garage sales and look what I found:
My new sewing bag
A bag that is designed to carry your sewing machine, tools, fabric, cutting mat and more.
It was a bit dusty but in new condition otherwise, I needed to put the frame together and it had the price tag still attached so for about 85% less then retail, I now have a sewing machine storage bag. Thanks mum for buying it for me.
Oops.. 6 weeks between blog posts.
Today DS had a friends 3rd birthday party to attend and I made the birthday girl a library bag and some hair bands:
I hope that she likes them.
DS also had another friends party last week, where I made a bag, a hair band and hair clip but I forgot to take photos as I only finished it the morning of the party.
Last Friday I took the day off work and DS went off to Childcare as normal (I did however pick him up early) and then I spent some of the day sewing.
I finished a pair of PJ’s for DS:
A fabric book also for DS:
and some drawstring bags to put his toys in. I actually made 4 in total, 2 of each design:
I spent last weekend at the Stitches and Craft Show in Sydney, with my mum and my sister, which was lots of fun. It also was the first time I had spent a night away from DS since he was born, he and dad survived fine.
We had a great time looking around the show, it wasn’t as big as I expected but lots of different stuff compared to the Canberra Quilt and Craft fair.
I managed to visit one of the Craft Bars and made a pin cushion. I also went to 2 Craft Labs – The Apron in 1 hour by Made By Miffy and Double the Charm & Twice as Nice by Hobbysew.
Here is all the sewing stuff I bought:
This pile includes 4 Funky Friends patterns, a Rourke and Henry pattern, 2 Nicole Mallalieu Design Patterns, some Prints Charming fabric, and some fabric from Lincraft. (The red fabric is my Apron).
I also bought lots of trimmings:
Some more card making stuff also came home with me. Some of it got started on Saturday night:
which meant more got bought on Sunday, here is the unopened card making stuff:
An enjoyable weekend was had.
Sorry for the dodgy photos I took them at night.
Well this post is quite late, but at the July I finally received a bag from the bag swap. Anna from TillyTom, the wonderful swap organiser sent the following bag, when my original swap partner failed to send me a bag.
It is a plastic covered tote bag, it is a great side for carrying lots of things for work. I was also lucky enough to receive a couple of extra goodies – a hair band, clip and a coin purse.
Thanks so much Anna, they are great.