Dinosaurs & Roses

I have been making gifts.

For little birthday boys...

And boys who now live far away...

And for kind people who look after children until the early hours of the morning.

Kind people even get embroidery...


And then after I had rested (LOL), I remembered how much I enjoyed fabric painting, so I painted some more shirts...

For little boys who like dinosaurs...





And for little boys who like sharks...




Time for another little rest ;-)

I'm not complaining!

I won! I won big time on Vicki's blog. Vicki W made some cute Monkey quilts with this great monkey fabric and then offered the scraps as a giveaway. Well, I like scraps! So I entered and gosh and golly I hit the jackpot. Vicki not only included her fuzzy cut scraps but also loads of FQ's of monkey fabric left over from her Monkey quilt...



And it's all gorgeous! Now, what shall I make????

Vicki also included one of her fabulous tie-dye t-shirts that I had my beady little eye on...



Thank you Vicki!
Admittely I am a sucker for hearts, but I LOVE it!! I reckon she should give up her job and make these t-shirts, they are superb!! (I couldn't get DH to take my photo because he's too busy bashing...)

What it looked like before I went out this afternoon...



And when I came back...



I'm not complaining, every bash is one bash closer to having a nicer house! (However I do have holes in my kitchen - photos to follow... if I can bear it LOL)

Scraps? Yes, please!

Erm, well that's what I always say, but when I went to tidy my sewing room I noticed that I was becoming a scrap collector LOL! 'Grumps' put a curtain rail up in the spare room where I have a temporary sewing space and to enable him to get to the window, I had to move my sewing table which I have now admitted was far too large for the space. So large in fact that I could hardly sew at it. Sounds crazy, but it allowed almost no space for a chair in front of it before meeting the bed. Sooooo, the table has come out, I've had a little tidy and I have reduced 2 bags of African scraps into...



55 (untrimmed) string blocks and half a bag of almost useless crumbs which I will probably just send to DS1's nursery. One of the bags came from an SA friend and I have had them for ages, the other bag was scraps from blocks I've made. Oh, it's good to use scraps!!!

DH allowed me to sew in the lounge for 2 nights. I got to watch tv and just sew, sew, sew. I'm thinking of doubling the blocks by adding a black HST to each...



But at least now they are more usable in this form.



I have a few swaps to attend to and then I plan to attack another box of scraps! Those string blocks are fun and make up really fast.


On the T-shirt front, the "mom' phoned to say that twins loved their gifts and DH said he saw one of my dinosaur t-shirts at kids tennis coaching that afternoon.


Of course you can never get kids to pose...



However, he did wear his for 2 days so I'll definitely make some more soon... keep your eyes peeled, because if I get really good, I'll put some in my shop :-) or you can custom order one [sewkalico at yahoo dot co dot uk]