New Year 2013

Happy New Year and Best wishes for 2013.

Been busy with the holidays. Working on a new quilt for my Great Uncle and Aunt they are in their 70's. A suprise for them.
A family quilt with names and the things they like. When it's finished I'll put it on the blog.
Started to sew my own clothes agian.

What's new

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.