Tuesday Treasure

I inherited this brooch from my grandma which was a wonderful surprise as she was a very practical woman and jewellery was only worn on very special occasions.

My father believes it came from his grandmother as the family were quite well off and important members of their community.

I am just so happy to have it in my possession.

Check with the queen of treasure to see who else is playing this week.

Happy Tuesday

Surprise -

Playing again - this time with the fabric I got on Thursday and the biggest Apple Core template - 9+ inches long - too fun.

We cut a stack

Dressed them up

Then there were four

The top was completed on Sunday evening while dinner cooked.

Oopsie is proving to be a very helpful sewing assistant, she like a new project just as well as all the best sewing assistants. Lucky me!

Happy Creating

(that would have to be an almost perfect weekend)

No Surprises

Oopsie has been watching over proceedings in the sewing room.

Cutting fabric with the new templates we bought way back in June.

Playing at the sewing machine - I used the second largest of the templates (7+ inches long) and it is easy to sew on the machine.

Just a few to see if we like it??

Today before work I visited the Lincraft store - what I was really looking for was the small sized rotary cutter - they were out of stock, but they had these fat quarters on super cheap and someone had already been playing with the bundles so I made two that suited me from the various bits that were loose on the shelf.

Lots of fun prints, checks and stripes to play with.

Happy Weekend

(Oh and Jindi tell your mum not to get too excited just because I have been cutting fabric into little pieces to sew back together again)

Tuesday Treasure

Simple and practical, created with love by my Grandma.

No two were ever the same and we all got one every year for our birthday.

I sure treasure these bright reminders of the talent of my Grandma.

Head on over and check with the Queen of treasure to see who else is playing.

Happy Fossicking for treasure

Yummy...

My favorite coffee and gorgeous fabric - Presents don't get much better than this.

Thanks SJ

Happy Monday Everybody

Conversion

Take the blocks completed in the quilt a long hosted by the generous Rachel over at ps i quilt earlier this year,

add sashing and binding fabric (pictured here with felt brought on the same trip),

A sunny winter weekend and lots of quality time spent with Nomee - the ever faithful sewing machine that lives at my house.

A warm and sunny quilt all ready to snuggle under.

I enjoyed playing with this quilt as you go method and will certainly be using it again, no hand sewing at the end to slow the finish.

Hope your weekend was full of sunny crafting progress.

Happy Creating

Results from Friday night Sew In

We trimmed the blocks.

Played with the layout, but it seems the blocks had their own idea.

Not paying close enough attention!

There was plenty of unsewing happening!

Now we've got it the right way.

And by midnight we had pairs.

Oopsie inspecting in the light of day.

Oopsie sure is handy in the sewing room.

I am using a quilt as you go method for these blocks and had all the individual blocks quilted before Friday.

After a slow start we got it happening and I am very happy with this progress.

Thanks to Heidi and Bobbi for coordinating the Friday night Sew In.

Happy Weekend.