Sunday, February 28, 2010

YAY!!!!!

Yay.........I finally got my quilt back from the quilters and It looks SO cute! I decided to use the left-over fabric from the jelly roll to make a patchwork bind. I have already machine stitched the bind on this morning and now all I have to do is hand stitch the bind in place on the back....that could take me a while!

Unfortunatly I didn't make them both the bottom one is mums and the top one is mine.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Buttons, buttons and more buttons

I love buttons they are gorgeous (especially when they are covered in your fave fabric). Just lately Mum and I have started covering buttons to make fridge magnets, earings and rings. Mum bought the equipment on Etsy and we got it in a couple of days. The day after our supplies arrived, Nic (the lady from Luv'n'hugs) and her daughter miss G came over for a visit. So miss G and I made heaps of things with the buttons. most of them are in the the photos but three or four aren't as I gave them to Miss G to take home and forgot to take pics of them.





Oh I almost forgot on the thirteenth and fourteenth of March Mum and I are going to the Craft Expo in Sydney........I can't wait.


Saturday, January 16, 2010

Prudence & Tilly

Today Mum found two little button doll kits in her sewing stash and said I could have them, so I set to work right away and started to make them. They were sooooo easy compared to Miss Millie and they were finished in no time here's how they turned out. Prudence is the one on the left and the other is Tilly.


Friday, January 15, 2010

Sweet Annie is now Miss Millie

Today I finished Sweet Annie but decided to change her name to Miss Millie. She didn't look one bit like an Annie with her cute little brown eyes, red nose and pink dress. I had never made a dolly before so there were a LOT of new things for me to learn but it was heaps of fun. Mum was there to help the whole time and I got her to paint on Millie's eyes 'cause I was to scared I would muck it up........ She turned out wonderful and I think she looked even better than the one on the front of the pattern!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Sweet Annie

I convinced Mum (aka Thimbelina) to buy me a Country Keepsakes "Sweet Annie" doll pattern a while ago from 'The Home Patch' when we were in Bathurst. Yesterday I got my act together and started making her and so far this is what I've got of a doll.......and I'm pretty proud of myself.

What do you think?

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Easy Peasy Half Hour Dress

Today I finally got my act together and made a cute little summer dress. It was very simple to make because Thimbelina (a.k.a Mum) and I found some gorgeous already shirred fabric at 'Spotlight'. I pestered her heaps to get it for me. Sure enough she caved in and said "oh alright then I s'pose it very cute". When I got it home all I needed to do was sew down the back and give it a tiny little hem. Then we decided to sew two pieces of ribbon to the front to tie up and make it a halterneck, because when I bent over it would slip down and thats not good!

Distractions

I have been very, very slack with my stiching lately. I have at least had a good reason as I've had my head stuck in the 'Twilight' series since Christmas day and I'm lovin' it. They are sooooo good that I've already finnished the first two and I'm half way through the third. I can't wait to start the fourth 'Breaking Dawn'......... Stephenie Myer is an amazing writer.

How I would love to be able to write like that some day.