Monday, 25 March 2013

Brrr! Cold Weather Crafting

I have loaded my first practise quilt on to the machine,
And I'm using a pantograph called stars and loops...
It's fun to do
and I'll hopefully start making a dent in my UFOs!

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But it's been bitterly cold out.
I missed getting photos of the snow drifts
as I was tucked up inside,
but the snow went right up the walls I was told...
While inside, ... I laid out my Scrappy Trip blocks
to see where I was with them...
Just a few more to make a picnic blanket for a friend.

I cut a pattern for and made an Easter Bunny...

And did some Easter crafting with the boys...

This is my youngest son's egg.
He likes things just so.
No help from me besides supervising the glue tube
produced a really pretty egg...

My older son is much more random
and definitely not as fussy
as to decorative element postitioning :)

This is my elder son's Easter 'Bonnet'
I had some lovely green bobble trim
and he just snipped all the bobbles off
to glue them randomly on his hat :)

My younger son of course was into symmetry...
Each decoration placed with care.
Two children so so different.

6 comments:

maria said...

Fabulous easter bonnets!
I wish I had a long arm machine but I don't have anywhere to put one, have fun with yours.

Angie said...

So cute, your little ones' eggs and bonnets. :D

Kate North said...

Love both the hats and eggs, and know just what you mean about differences in children. Having met mine, you can probably work out which is the perfectionist and which is the other... How exciting to be longarming! Woo Hoo!

Janet O. said...

The snowball block is an appropriate quilt to work on in such weather. : )
Are you loving your new machine?
So funny to see the differences in the way our children approach things.

Carole said...

It IS cold, isn't it ? Barely suitable Easter weather... but your children's lovely hats are there to remind us that indeed, we are in March, not in December :)
The Easter Bunny does a pretty good job too !
I am on sick leave this week, so I think I might just sit at the sewing machine again... oh the joy of it !
Happy Easter to all of you.

Anonymous said...

I bet you are glad your new "toy" arrived before the winter storm! It must have been nice to have something to do while snow-bound :o)