Crochet and some placemats

I am a self taught crocheter

This wool is a mixture of bamboo, cashmere and cotton, a number of balls of all sorts. I use these colours to knit up the bunny soft toys I have posted about before.

I have a rather large bag of this wool so I have decided to crochet myself something.

A bag

A blanket

Im not sure just yet... but Im sure I will decide at some stage

My latest make. 

Six placemats made with Blush from Basic Grey

The inspiration for these came from.........

A tutorial at Moda Bake Shop

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I am terrible at following a pattern. I hardly ever do it. I use the pattern and alot of the time end up doing my own thing.

A closer look

and again

These are a gift for a friend. Its here birthday in a week or so.

I Love Fabric Design made up ...

I Love Fabric Stitchery Duffle Bag

I am off to the Calico Christmas Show in a few weeks time. I needed a bag to put all my goodies into. I don't have a large bag, so I decided to design one using the new stitchery pattern I designed.

The above photo is of the new bag creation

This is a circular bag

Old lace used with beads as a bag closure

Large handles.. in fact they are very wide and long.

Bag closure close up

Back of bag.. I am going to add some fabric flowers

Inside of bag...

So that is my new design.. 

I may bring out a pattern soon... Just have to find the motivation to type it up..

I hope you are all having a great weekend...

Fat Quarter Apron

Its very quite around my neck of the woods. My hubby is not around today and I am having a very quite day at home with the kids ... Good Friday is always a quite day for us.

I decided to get to the sewing machine this morning. I bought this pattern a few weeks ago. A very effective easy peasy Fat Quarter Apron. This one is made out of 4 fat quarters... others in the pattern are made from 3 or 5 fat quarters. This apron is reversible also... a great way to show of some favourite fabrics. As some of you know pink and red are a favourite for me at the moment. Now I can wear it everyday.

Happy Easter to you all

God bless you

Lisa

The vintage cut-out dolls and the clothing

I sewed and fussy cut the dolls and the clothes yesterday.  My daughter, Laura, just loves them to bits.

If any of you decide to buy the fabric..it is available in the USA from Keepsake Quilting (click on the name to take you there). They have it in their catalogue. One of my readers mentioned it in a comment on the last post. Take a look at THIS Its a booklet made out this doll fabric...

Now the how to of this quilt and the dollies. The dolly fabric has a repeative pattern. The pattern I had said to cut the blocks a certain size but I felt it was a bit large. So I down sized the size of the doll block because I wanted as many different dolls on the quilt as I could get. It is a very simple quilt to make. Add the flaps and then the sashings, the outer border etc and it is of course finished.

The doll interfacing

The clothing pellon

With the individual dolls I ironed them onto a very very stiff iron on interfacing. I then satin stitched, a small width zigzag stitch, right around the whole doll and then fussy cut them out. Then with the clothes, I ironed the fabric onto a thin iron on pellon....small zig zag stitched around the outside of the clothes and then fussy cut them out. Easy peasy but a little time consuming.

This quilt is not my idea. I bought the kit, with the instructions inside. I am not very good at reading instructions...in fact I hate reading instructions. A terrible habit I know, but I prefer to look at a photo, the pattern pieces and figure it out for myself....I am terrible at keeping to the design of anything I do. I get very bored.... oh dear another terrible habit.

NEW FABRIC

Well I have to confess Im always buying new fabric but I dont put it on my blog!!

 I bought some gorgeous Paddington Bear fabric the other day and some Beatrix Potter. I collect Beatrix Potter fabric and when I see it at a good price I buy it. Anyway... I bought this absoultley gorgeous fabric the other day on our auction site here in NZ. It is a Moda - French General fabric. I have another quilt that I drew up last year that I have in mind for this quilt. It is called Flower Power... I guess thats got you thinking... Well, I will get around to making these quilts that I have drawn up eventually... I just have to get my prioities right eh??!! LOL!! ... I am a little frustrated with myself that I just dont get my designs made up. My hubby is always telling me 'I dont need to buy other people's patterns, I can do it myself'....but I guess I just lack the confidence to do it. So the last lot and this lot of fabric is me putting my toe into the water and trying to do as my huBBy has suggested.... so watch the space but dont hold your breath.

Hugs

Lisa