Ho, hum

It’s been one of those weeks so far, I feel like pushing fast forward! It’s probably just as well that’s impossible as I’ve had a million and one things to do this week. First up an angel mini quilt for the Brit Quilt Swap.  I’m feeling particularly proud of myself for parting with this block that I made as soon as my Flea Market Fancy arrived. It was intended to be part of a larger quilt but I think my angel recipient will love it so I’ll just have to make myself another block at a later date.

 I backed it with this blossom print from the Farmdale range and did my signature straight line quilting. Hopefully this will put a smile on the recipient’s face 🙂

 This month is Jude’s month in the HipBee. We’ve been asked to make these wonky braids using scraps that Jude sent us. They are super quick and very liberating, made all the better by the munching of Rolos (thanks Jude)! Fun!

 Finally, I joined the Modern Scrappy Bits swap over on Flickr. A super easy swap, send scraps and small item made from scraps….job done. I made my first boxy pouch using this tutorial. I foresee more of these in my future!

That’s Tula Pink Parisville scraps! I think I must be having a funny turn with all this beloved fabric leaving my clutches!!! I lined it with scraps of an Ikea print.

 Here it is full of scrappy goodies for my partner. Hope she likes it 🙂

I’m now free to sew for fun again as my swap commitments are all fulfilled. I won’t be taking on any more swaps until we move house, no news on that front yet. Slap me if I tell you I’ve signed up for anything else!! Catch you soon x

Brit Quilt Swap Completed

If I hadn’t have seen the sender of today’s parcel I would have been very worried when I opened the wrapping to discover this! Prepare for lots of exclamation marks!!!

 As I did know the sender I was super excited to get inside the box!!! My Brit Quilt Swap mini arrived today and feast your eyes on the fabulousness that is the Dark Side of the Pond by Hadley! I had admired it in the Flickr group so I’m completely delighted that it now resides with me 🙂

 This little bit of text print will cause me many giggles every time I look at it….I’m very immature 😉

 The frog prince peeking out at me, love Tula Pink!

The fabulous hand embroidered label 🙂 

 Hadley included this gorgeous little hoop which is so cute! I thought it was a nod to the brown purse I sent her but Hadley reminded me that I had specifically stated that I wouldn’t be impressed if I received a brown dog in a patchwork waistcoat 😀 lol, what do I know…clearly dogs in patchwork waistcoats are totally awesome!

 Finally, Hadley included this gorgeous flexi-frame purse! Check out those tiny Liberty hexies! The other side of the purse is also tiny hexies, so much work!! Thank you Hadley, you got me sussed 🙂

 Benji is feeling much better today, although rather grumpy after his trip to the vet, so I was able to get on and finish the mini for my Brit Quilt partner 🙂 I’m hoping my partner will excuse the rather wonky appearance of the edges of the quilt. I’m not quite sure what happened but what I thought was straight was not so I’ve lost the purple edge entirely on one side and part of it on the other, sorry partner!

I backed with a print from Good Fortune by Kate Spain. I’m hoping to get this posted tomorrow so not long for my partner to wait now 🙂 

Hope you all have a good weekend. Catch you soon x

Hmmm

So today I was hoping to show you my finished Brit Quilt Swap mini quilt but this little chap had other ideas. 

Benji

Benji decided to bung himself up with fur so we spent the day trying to get him to eat when I should have been sewing! After a quick trip to the vets he seems to be feeling better so I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll get the mini finished tomorrow. It really wouldn’t be good for a swap mama to be late sending out her swap!! This is as far as I managed to get today. If my partner doesn’t like purple I’m stuffed! I used this pattern to piece the sewing machine. I ad-libbed the rest of the design but I think it all works together. The “Sew wall-hanging” is cross-stitched and the borders were originally intended to be flying geese but I had total brain-fade and ended up with these envelope type things instead. I’ll be doing some very basic quilting on this one as I don’t want to overcrowd it. 

Brit Quilt mini ready for quilting

 In other news, I bought these gorgeous screen-printed fabrics from Brit Designer Leanne at The Little House Martin. They are absolutely gorgeous and so intricate! You  might want to haul your backsides over there and order some of your very own if you haven’t already 😉 Leanne threw in some buttons and scraps as a thank you, how lovely is that?! I envisage lots of lovely makes from these and they’d play really nicely with Karen‘s fabrics too….

The little house martin fabrics

Catch you soon x