Saturday 15 February 2014

The Bean Bag


This is an extra large bean bag I made this week for my sons friend. He loves it and I am very pleased with it. I found the pattern on Google.  It is by Joanna Armour and it is on the Michael Miller Fabrics website.


Until next time - Happy Sewing

Thursday 13 February 2014

Teddy is finished too!


Hi again,
This is a teddy I started at a fabulous workshop at The Limerick Quilt Centre last July. I went to the workshop with my sister who was home from Australia on holidays. We had a great day.  I'm glad he's finally finished. He has been waiting a while.

I am very pleased with the finished product.  I re-learnt how to do blanket stitch and I also learnt how to do ladder stitch.  I found some great tutorials on the web.  What would we do without the web, I wonder.

This one is for my daughter Becky and I hope to make two more for my boys in time.

Well until next time - Happy Sewing.

Wednesday 5 February 2014

I'm back!!!

It has been quite a while since I posted anything here - a whole year to the day in fact!! My how that year has absolutely flown by.  The joys of changing to a full time job and trying to keep a home and family has meant that my free time has been greatly reduced.  I have been sewing but only a little bit unfortunately.

The following photos are of two quilts that I recently finished.  The tops were both made at workshops run by my favourite local quilter Mary Palmer of Marimu Designs, a few years ago.

I found out a few weeks before Christmas that my sister-in-law and her first cousin were both diagnosed with breast cancer.  Both are undergoing treatment at the moment.  I decided to try to complete these quilts as quickly as time permitted.  Unfortunately I was a little ill over the Christmas holidays myself with shingles so that slowed me down a bit.  I finally finished them last week.  I am very pleased with them.




Hopefully I'll be back sooner the next time. Until then happy sewing everyone.