Captain of Industry… This weekend I finally plucked up the courage to take on a project that I’ve been wanting to achieve for probably a good year – even before I took up sewing – Toddler-proofing our cream dining chairs. It’s a long story how we came about having cream chairs – but I’m sure […]
Archives for September 2010
Sew & tell Friday & breaking out of my box…
That’s right – I’m attempting to break out of my little quilting box (not that it’s a bad box to be in) and try a little “other” sewing. I have a few things that I’d like to attempt – but to start with I thought I better start simple… so… here is a cute little […]
Busy bee-ing…
A couple of weeks ago I decided I didn’t have enough on my plate – yeah right LOL… The real story is that since getting into quilting in about April, I have become a bit of a quiltaholic/fabricaholic and more recently blogaholic. The blog world introduced me to the idea of virtual quilting bees about […]
A tough week is thankfully coming to an end…
Well this week has sucked to be quite frank!! It started off well, as I got another quilt finished (check out previous post), but did not continue well, since my 2 year old developed gastro on Tuesday evening. Never fun – but especially not fun when it puts her in hospital for the rest of […]
Airlee’s disappearing 9 patch is finished
Wahoooo… another quilt finished!! I started this last weekend, so I’m so amazed that I finished it in a week. Especially given the week I’ve had!! On Tuesday we had a huge family dinner with my parents, brother & his fiance, my uncle & cousin and the 4 of us the give Mum and Dad […]
Disappearing 9 patch – work in progress
It didn’t take long for me to cut into my new fabric heh heh heh… I decided to try a dissapearing 9 patch pattern because I wanted something quick and easy that I hadn’t tried before. It probably wasn’t as quick and easy as I anticipated – because I decided to be random with my […]
Gotta love a Bargain!!!!!!
My mum is staying from New Zealand at the moment (to visit our wee darlings rather than me of course ). While staying she has got back into knitting, since she rarely has time to do anything creative back home with her busy schedule. So this week she finished knitting some soft toys for my […]