Coming soon

I hope to add more pages to my blog  soon. For free patterns , tutorials ,events and exhibitions ets.
Still working on the family quilt . At the moment hand quilting. Very relaxing for me. Also making some items for a textile artist . For the Knitting and stitching show at Oylmpia  in London 14th to 17th of March.Check out Twisted Threads web site. You can buy your tickets and book for workshop at the show on  this site and it is cheaper than paying at the door.

Being Brave

Hello,

I am going to be brave and put my products on Folksy.com  . Last year I did try to sell on Ebay , sold 2 items. Not the right place for craft items.

My quilt for my Grate Uncle and Aunt  . Sewed up all the patchwork and embroidery panels  . Sandwich the layers together  and tacked together . Just to quilt it all over now and I am doing it by hand . I like the finish better . It looks handmade.

It will have to wait . I have some freelance work for a textille artist.

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.