2018 Wk 18 - Sewing with Jackie Part 1

A perfect weekend!

Jackie arrived, lots of sewing, Crafty Church, a bit of fabric and wool shopping and mostly decent weather!  What more could I ask for?

Zippy pouches from lined hessian (I'll be finding hessian dust for weeks but they didn't need any stabiliser!

Do your children every actually ask you to make something?  Usually I get "It's lovely mum, but I really don't NEED another quilt" but on this occasion it was "mum, can you and Jackie make a chemo quilt for Claire at work? Any colours, any design (more points there kiddo, well done!) but plenty of blank space so we can write messages for her", so this has been started

We made a box pouch with a vinyl pocket  - finished item will be in the next blog post, but the pain that was making the bias binding is evidenced here - never again!

Tara at Crafty Church brought in her WW1 Heart Pincushion kit.  Explained here, it takes the occupational therapy practiced by injured soldiers in WW1 and has turned it into a commemorative project for the 100th anniversary of the end of the war later this year, asking people to recreate these hearts for an Art installation.  For example:

Some of us will buy one the of the kits for the Untangles Threads project, but we also decided to make named hearts for the 7 soldiers from our village who served in WW1

Lesley brought in a picture of an Amsterdam street she has completed.  It has been framed and I really struggled to get a pic without reflection, but it's worth zooming in to have a closer look.  it is all made of fabric, stitched in place.  She made each house twice - so there is a mirror image house upside-down in the water!  Its absolutely stunning

The next post will follow when Google photos has caught up with the photos I've taken!

Thank you Jackie - I've had a wonderful weekend -I love you xx

Museum Making

Busy day yesterday - after "day job" in the morning I whizzed over to Chertsey museum where we all had a go at (wet) felting and made these fab flowers 

There was also a bit of show and tell: two felted fairies finished from last month

And from the recent evening session, a finished (and fab) t-shirt bowl

and a t-shirt basket

I then stayed at the museum for the evening session: not my class this time, but the other evening teacher who works mostly with paper: We made a vintage style scrap book page, although my plan (we I get proper prints of the photos rather than these photocopies) is to frame this for Mother-in-Law

This little blond cherub is (was? will be?) my husband!!!!

2010 August (3)

 

Kate's SAH Robin

Last year at Festival Of Quilts I bought LOADS of whites with black, and blacks with white.

The mostly whites went with some pale greens into a quilt for Niki's friend Kay:

The mostly blacks went, with some pale blues, into a quilt for Niki's friend Becca


Both types, plus a bit of red, went into log cabins which became cushion covers for Niki herself:
and the remaining fabrics plus a few orphan log cabins went into a plastic bag awaiting inspiration.

One of the blogs I've been following is Kates's Quilting Blogspot where she is hosting a Stay At Home Round Robin. We'll I've finally plucked up the courage, and I've used an orphan and some scraps to catch up with the first two stages, and now I'm off to ask Kate, Pretty Please, can I be in your gang?