Ooh, Ooh Exciting Quilting News!

I've just had an email from LongarmChris

to say that the first ever quilt I made

is ready for collection!!!

 (I nabbed these photos from Chris's email -

hope she doesn't mind!)

 I am so pleased that after all these years

- well over 20!

I am just one more step away (the binding!)

from finishing this quilt.

 It will be very exciting to see it in the flesh

 and I am so looking forward to collecting it asap!

Thank you Chris!

Hexagon Birthday Bag

Turns out Little-Miss-Kalico

shares her birthday with at least

4 of my friends!!!

One of these friends made my little girl a beautiful

hexagon quilt when she was born!

So for her birthday

and to thank her for the beautiful quilt...,

I handstitched this hexagon bag.

I believe it is happily living in Wales now! :)

 

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Yesterday. we had birthday cake!

I hope all my friends

with mutual birthdays did too.

Although, Little Miss-K

didn't like the candle very much!

 

Not Such a Baby Anymore!

It just sneaks up on you...

There you are just

minding your own business...

And suddenly your baby girl

is a year old!

How did that happen??

Focus on Felt

My local village craft group organised a trip

to the tiny village of Hardraw, near Hawes,

to visit Andrea Hunter at her studio:

'Focus on Felt'.

we could not have picked a better day for it.

Not only is the countryside beautiful,

 

but Andrea's original felt artworks

are awe-inspiring...

 

Shelves packed with beautifully dyed

Merino wool, just waiting to become artworks...

 

Small artworks for sale...

And Andrea!

A very generous artistic spirit,

who kindly demonstrated her technique

and had us all in amazement!

She (and my fellow crafters)

kindly allowed a little Kalico to see what was going on...

(until luckily she fell asleep in her buggy!!!)

 

Andrea's demonstration piece...

 

The technique...

 

The rolling...

 

The rapture :) ...

 

Ah! So that's how she does it....

 

A splendid day out...

... in a beautiful studio...

Thanks Andrea.

We hope to see you again sometime soon...

October is Birthday Month!

Another birthday... Another cake...

DS2 turned 6! And he wanted a pirate party!!

Lots of sugar-filled pirates invaded our house!!

October is a busy birthday month for us...

Baby-Kalico,

my niece, my nephew

and my Sister-in-Law celebrate next!

Wordless Wednesday - Alphabetti-Spaghetti!

Grabbing Stitches Here & There!

Not only an hour a day...

but a stitch every minute I can :o)

 When baby-kalico naps...

Mummy gets the odd stitch in...

 

One more rose-star!

 Another half as well!

 And some bits to square up a corner....

 These 3 pieces make a square edge:

 Pinned on and ready to be stitched.

 

I enjoyed an official 'hour a day' for the

month of September with Bonnie.

 

Perhaps now that it's October,

I had better start thinking about

the 'C'-word!

(Crafting for Christmas may have to

put this project on the back-burner!)

This is what happens when...

....You leave your sewing on the sofa...

 The sewkalico-cat moves in!

 And doesn't want to move off!

 

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This is what happens...

...when your son turns 8!

 

You attempt to make him a lego cake

using fondant icing

(for the first time!)

I think it's fair to say...

...that I do manage an hour a day.

Some days, I may not,

 but then I'll make up for it

with 2 hours the next day!! ;o)

 

This is it!

No more on the length.

I just need to make a few more stars,

a few more halves and the 2 corners...

 

In the above picture you can see where I plan to stop.

I need to square it off on the right like the corner below:

 

And the opposite corner/the left 

will need to be squared off like this:

 

I am linking to Bonnie's:

One Hour of Simply Needle & Thread!

Because she's made me

aware that I really do need that hour a day

of sewing just for me!

Rose-Star Surprises

Look what I found in the postbox yesterday!

Kandy sent me a rose-star that she had made

to thank me for getting her started.

 

Thank you Kandy!

I am pleased you are pleased,

sometimes I wish I'd never started,

but I hope to be finished soon.

 

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Wendy has asked me to show

how I do my half blocks.

I'll do a little tutorial soon.

I mean it's all very well making the stars,

but one really needs to be able

to finish them off :)

There are several ways to square up,

and I'll show you mine soon....

FB Giveaway!

'Like' my Handsewn page on Facebook...

And when I get to 100 'likes'

I'll be giving something 'handsewn' away!