Friday finish up - a tiny pouch

A little tiny pouch 3 1/2" by 2 1/2", just big enough for a couple of needles, some thread and a little fabric and some 1" hexagon cards, a little something to put in your pocket, so you can sew where ever you go :o)

The outer fabric is a Laura Ashleigh print from a sample book and the inside is part of a gift I received last year for my birthday of all pretty fabrics - it's one of those things that if you knew me you would know how funny that sounds - I am a tattooed biker chick (or I was until someone set fire to my bike), but fabric is changing me, I'm using prints I never would have used before, it may also be an age things as well, but quilting has openend my eyes to a whole new side of me - one where any colour and print goes.

Have a fab weekend everyone.

Sewing pouches

I've been asked to have a table at a craft night to pass along craft skills and show people what is out there and available to do, I'll be doing a bit of patchwork, some quilting, some embroidery and some bunting making.
There will be other people doing other bits like card making and corn dollies.

I have tasked myself with making a whole selection of mini sewing kits, some are just a pouch, some are fold out ones, some have pockets on both sides, some have a thing for holding thread, each one will have different bits in them (though some will have the same as each other), in some I'll put hexies, the paper, the fabric, some made up and some attached to other, I'm going to make some plain mug mats that can be quilted and decorated with other bits of fabric etc, some bunting kits. Each one will have a reel of thread and a needle, some will have embroidery floss and others will have scraps of fabric.

Below are some of the pouches I've made so far - thank you Janine for reminding me I had some bird fabric :o)

 I will try and take better photo's in future.

Friday up finish - Christening present - sail boat quilt

This is my Friday finish - I think my first proper one that I've aimed for.

This is a little buggy quilt made for a christening present.

It's been backed in a lovely soft fleece, bound in green and white and I've used an assortment of blues and greens, with a couple of yellow square and beige with nautical looking rope on them.

I did all over loopy quilting, I'd recently tried it on a cushion cover and liked it and was waiting for a larger project to have a go on - I'm quite taken with it.

It measures 32" square and quite frankly I really love it, I have to say though photography is not one of my strong points.

I'm giving it in a bottle bag, of which I have plenty and have been looking at ways to use them up.

I am linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts and Pippa's Patch 

Buggy quilt

I lost my sewing bug recently, possibly because I had a cough and cold bug for four weeks, but also as much as I like sewing, sewing with a purpose us much better.

I have been invited to a christening next Sunday, so I came back and started sewing a little buggy quilt, as babie's mum walks with him in his buggy a lot.

It is 32 square at the moment, I'm still deciding on if I should do some sashing round the edges.

There is a unique square in there, in that it's facing the wrong way, but ho hum and all that :o)

 

Cat supervisor

This is Millie, making sure that I'm not missing her whilst I sew :)

WIP: The wedding gift quilt

I'll be doing 11.5" white boarders with corner stones made up of four blocks. I'm really liking how a strippy quilt looks in just a few colours and patterns ... I also really like how it photographs up against the window.

Stash

I am addicted to fabric - there I've said it, but before anyone races to help I don't need any, I know they say in order to sort out a addiction you have to admit to it, well this is one addiction I intend to nurture :)

This is my most used drawer, it has what I think of as my adult fabrics, they range from fat 1/6th to approx fat or long 1/4.

 This is the top drawer where larger bit of fabric live or packs of fabric.

Another view of top drawer

This is childrens drawer, which is being taken over slightly by draw above, who is full to the rafters, these are mostly kids fabrics.

This is bottom draw, this has panels, precut bit and pieces and also a lot of larger pieces that are mostly used for the inside bits that no one will see, like in foundation piecing.

I also have five bird feed tubs full of strips and scraps and also four big square tubs full of 'other' fabric, like fleece, flannel, gingham.

Plus a whole cupboard full of 'other' fabrics for dress making etc, which to be quite honest I don't know what I'm going to do with it - I think I'm going to have a give away soon of that fabric.... I need the space for more cotton fabrics.

I'm linking up with What The Bobbin
http://www.whatthebobbin.com/2013/08/03/sunday-stash-8313/