A 'Harvest' of Finishes

Tomorrow is Harvest festival at school,

I was stupidly proud of our 'harvest'

considering how hard it has been to grow anything

the last few years!

This is our donation to the church:

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I have had quite a few finishes of late,

but the weather is seriously wet, rainy and GREY!!!

So no nice countryside pics of these!

The binding is on my Purple & Green Oceans:

I do love this colour scheme,

I'm not sure I'm ready to redecorate 

the living room to make it match, but we'll see :)

A close-up of the quilting:

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I've also finished another baby quilt...

I'm expecting (ha ha - no!! not me!)

 lots of babies to be born or else!!

The back:

I really enjoyed this floral pantograph,

it looked harder than it was and very relaxing to quilt.

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Here's another one 

that I'm sewing the binding down on:

Quilted with 'Stars & Loops'

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I've finished a doll from a magazine my mother gave me,

I'll try and come back and credit the designer...

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I've also got this huge top to ready to quilt stage

by adding borders:

And I pieced a humungous backing

for it, so it'll be the next one to quilt

once I've finished the top that's on the longarm at the moment....

So that's it as far as finishes 

(or almost finishes)

for now!

Dolly Number Two

I made another doll,

(only my second)

for our neighbour's little girl.

This time, I didn't make the dress.

I upcycled it from some baby clothes.

I had to adapt the collar,

and I watched a video on you-tube

to try a new way of making the hair

so it's a bit different to the last doll I made.

Baby-kalico loves her doll

so I'm hoping dolly-number-2 makes

another little girl very happy.

Baby Doll

Some pictures of Baby-Kalico with her dolly.

I have been making a dolly for our neighbour's daughter,

so I was looking at the one I had already made,

to see how I had made it - 

(so that I didn't have to read the instructions again LOL)

I managed to convince Master Kalico to get in the picture :)

(I will be honest...

these are actually just gratuitous baby photos

taken at 23 weeks!)

(Spots, spots spots! Especially if they're red ones!!)

A Trophy Finish

Today was the Annual Village Show and so I had been furiously hand quilting to finish my New York Beauty quilt. I wanted to enter it in the show and only just managed the last few stitches on the binding last night. But my efforts proved worth it as my quilt won a 'First' place in the Needlework section and a 'Best Exhibit in the Handicraft Section'. It was great to have a judge who appreciates patchwork and quilting as a lot of work has gone into this quilt.

(This is not a great photo, but I didn't have time to get any shots in any decent light as it has rained all day and it was only finished last night - perhaps a decent photo to follow this week.)

My first ever doll also won a 'First'. (I like this judge LOL):

And one of my bags also won a 'First'. (I REALLY really like this judge! LOL)

The children also did well with their exhibits and enjoyed receiving some prize money.

My eldest son was very proud of my trophy for: 'The Most points in the Handicraft Section' which made Mummy very happy indeed.

Doll Voodooo!

I'm going to do a proper post about the snow, the very low temperatures (MINUS 13 degrees C this morning!!) and my very enjoyable screenprinting night-class, but in the meantime...

For your amusement...

My first attempt at a doll... (without a pattern!!!!)

Made while my mother was still staying with us...



I left it on the sofa and my Mother said that DS1 saw it and was most upset that it didn't have a face. So he made it a face out of pins!



Of course I couldn't finish it after that because every time I look at it, I find the memory so sweet :-) Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!!