Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Missing...

No not me - I am still here - and still stitching Santa's figured you didn't need to see them in every colourway. I am missing this piece terribly now that I have put the Christmas version back in the cupboard. Around this time last year I made this spotty centre piece for the Quilting in the Round challenge and I got excited when I found out it was going to be on display at major craft shows in Australia during 2009. Now the last one was in August and I expected this piece would find its way home in September so I waited and waited... I contacted those that I left it with - no response! and again - No Response! So now I am asking for help from those of you out in blogland - If anyone knows the whereabouts of this piece I would very much like to hear from you. And yes I did write my name and contact details on the back. Thanks for your assistance. I will be back soon with something finished for the OPAM challenge - I know I will because it is my brother's birthday this weekend and he put in a request. Best get sewing. Hope you all have time for some creative activities this week. Happy Crafting

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Stitching and the day job

As I thought my work has begun for the year, I got a call Monday morning and worked two days in a row, a bit of a shock after two months. All this day job stuff gets in the way of crafty fun. Yesterday I recieved notification that my entry in the 'Think outside the square - quilting with circles' competition is to be part of the Living Creatively display at the coming Stitches and Craft Show. You could say I am excited! This week I started stitching this lovely design by Bronwyn Hayes of Red Brolly, which appears as an applique in Australian Homespun Magazine. It is part of a bigger project, I am not being that ambitious at present and thinking that I may just do this one. I chose to just do stitchery and not applique, so will wait and see how it comes out. The thread colours are all purples and the background fabric is a pale tan colour. I have some civil war fabrics in purple and tan tones which I am thinking will complement it to make a bigger project. Just playing with ideas at the moment and enjoying hand stitching in between the working stuff.
I haven't put the sewing machine back up since the outing we had last Saturday, which was most enjoyable. So good to be in the company of so many inspiring like minded people, and the feeling that we were able to do something to help those in need at this difficult time.
Happy Crafting