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Here is a better photo of my pendants. At the moment trying to see if gitf shops will sell them . a bit free now so decided to make some new clothes for myself .

Liberty fabric pendants I made . Should be on my web site for sale soon . Still have the costing to work out. Fiddley to make. 4.5cmx4.5cm big.

Japanese Fabric Flowers

Hello ,such along time since I wrote something. The children are back to school . My time again. 3 weeks ago I made these easy flowers-  Japanese Kanzashi Flowers. I made them into brooches for my 2 girls to put on their bags that I made for them , sometime ago.

This is the website I used.  www.kimonreincarnate.blogspot.com

The pink cotton fabric was easy to use. The blue silk fraied alot . Next time I will fuse this fabric.

Make your own fabric labels

This is the final label for the bags.

We also made also made a fabric label to stitch onto the bags for the teachers. All you need is cotton fabric and freezer paper . You can buy it on a roll or sheets which is a little smaller than A4 size. Cut your fabric and paper if from a roll  to A4 size. If you have sheets of paper cut the fabric to sheet size. Now iron the fabric onto shiny side of the paper . Medium heat . You print your image on the ink jet printer. Make sure you place the paper the correct way up to print on the fabric side. When printed leave to dry . Then peel off and iron the set the ink.

This the original drawing my daughter did and I  scaned the image into the computor . I use office pulisher. And store it in clip art I find that easy for me.

Teacher's end of term presents

It is that time of the year agian . It has gone fast . My youngest is still in primary school and it is gift time for the hard work the teacher has done . I had to get 3 . My daughter's class has 2 teacher assistant. We hand made our gifts this year. I decided to use up some of my fabrics. I made scented hearts, covered mirrors and tissue holders, all matching. Also bought blank cotton bags and painted them , well my daugther did.  I hope they like the gifts . I wanted to give them something useful.

Hello,
Hope you are all sewing. At the moment I am working on a child's quilt for the charity Siblings Together.

Above is a photo of the pelmet for the Quilter's Guild to give to all the Olympic Athletes.

Hello ,
Went to Olympia on Sunday - Mother's Day to the sewing and craft show. Alot smaller than the Ally Pally in October.  Did one of the classes to make a broach . First work shop I did after going for the last 20 years  to Ally Pally. Enjoyed seeing all the quilts for the countries who are in the Olympics. The were all beautiful.

Quilt

Yes  .I finally finished  the Tree of Life Quilt. on 28th February 2012.  This Monday hung it up in my eldest daughter's room. She was very pleased.  So now I'm finishing a cross stitch my Mum started a Knotted Garden design. Something elseto keep me busy in the evenings.

Hello,
Hope you are all enjoying the mild weather. These are wall hangings I made for care homes in East London.
They needed hanging for the residents to touch and talk about. They are machine and alot of hand embroidery. Along time to make. Well worth it as they looked beautiful when finished.

The 2 above are from one of the resident's paintings at the carehome.

This one I made up the picture for the home.

From another resident's painting.

HELP IF YOU CAN

Hello, Hope you are all outside today enjoying the fab weather and sewing.

I thought i would like tio introduce you a baby charity I have sewn for when I get time.
Bonnie Babies. They are a Uk registered charity. They provide sewn, crochet and knitted
clothers, blankets and burial items for the special care units in hospitals.

There are patterns to down load free to use or use your own. and just post the items to them.
They do reply to say thankyou  . So you know the package was received. All there details on their web site.
www.bonniebabies.co.uk

I myself made burial outfits and keepsake bags for the parents.

Practical ideas

Hello again ,
Something useful , this my quilting reel , for my quilt . It was surrounded by paper  not to unravel but eventually it tore. So I knitted it a jacket  . Made it smaller than the circumference so that it stretches around the reel.

My Quilt

My cross stitch quilt I have been sewing for along time . There is light at the end of the tunnel. I am coming to the end of the quilting part and then to decide how to finish the edges. You must be wondering why I am so please to finish is because I started it the year when my 1st daughther was born . Sit down , it is 13 years ago.  I did stop sewing it for a while. I use to take it to work to sew at lunch times. That was good as I was just behind Oxford Circus  it stopped from shopping. I now make the effort and sew for an hour  each day. It is called the tree of life. I bought it in Liberty when the Christmas sale was on . Half price and it had the printed cotton and all the threads and instructions.                                                                                    

Shopping Bag

This is shopping bag based on the plastic bags you get from the suppermarkets. If you would like a free pattern that I created, to make the bag yourself .Please go to my web site    http://www.sewasian.co.uk/  . Just leave your contact detail to send the pattern to you , Post & packing  is free.

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Hello to the sewers and crafters out there. I am new to blogging ,just starting to post today. I hope you will find my pages interesting.