Full of Heart Quilt Blocks now available

My Full Of Hearts Quilt 

This is now available to download for $4.00 USD per block from my Etsy store.

This quilt consists of nine blocks that can be used for a quilt or cushions.

Click HERE to visit my Etsy store for instant download

Here are just three of the blocks available.

Below is the button for the quilt if you would like to add it to your blog

Happy stitiching

Little Quilt

Ive been sewing today

This little quilt is for a girlfriends little baby boy.

These are a kind of 'signature' pressie I give when friends have babies.

These are designed to be used in their carseats. They are the perfect size. They are also great for a changing mat.

I hope you are having a great weekend

Gift for a friend

A very good friend of mine is having a crisis in her life at the moment.

I was going to give her the Pink QAYG quilt but purple is her colour.

So I decided to make this Turning Twenty Quilt. I have made these quilts before. They are very quick and easy to put together.

This one is made from nine fat quarters... not the usual twenty.

It is a lap quilt.

I thought I had cut up nine fat quarters but had only cut up eight so I had to add the middle block adding some hearts to it.

I have stipple quilted it myself and bound it with a scrappy binding.

I used a variegated thread for the quilting

I hope she likes it.

I will be drawing the giveaway in a few days.

Tilda Purse and A new quilt in progress

I am making Christmas gifts...

Another Tilda purse.. I came across the fabric this is made of the other day

it was a 'couldnt resist' fabric. The yoyo is made from the fabric in a previous post. 

I am enjoying wrapping the beads with wire on my purses. I have looked in the shops for wire wrapped beads and I just cannot find them.. so I have decided to just do it myself.. not that professional looking but creative I guess.

The yoyo

Now... I have had the Frolic charm pack for some months and yesterday I got some fresh inspiration.

I was blog hopping,as you do and I came across this quilt on Piece n Quilt click HERE, to view it.... I love the quilting she has done on the quilt.. just gorgeous.

So I decided to have a go at doing some circles. I like circles and I have been thinking of ways I could do something with them for a while.

So I used the charm pack and made the centre of the quilt.

I have yardage that I will use  

A closer look

Hugs

Hexie Christmas Tablecloth

This is a Christmas Tablecloth for the little white wrought iron table and chair set we have sitting on our deck.

My husband and I sit out on our deck nearly everyday and have a coffee together. I thought that this would be nice to have on this little table for Christmas. 

The fabrics used are the latest and also last years Christmas fabrics from Basic Grey, Fruitcake and Figgy Pudding

A closer look

Before they were attached together.

And thanks to you all for your comments regarding out miners, also thanks for praying for the families and friends.. We are a nation in mourning. It is so very very sad. All over our country we have little towns. These towns are like little communities. When crisis comes these communities stick together. 

Shirley Goodwin is organising Healing Heart blocks for quilts for these families.. if you would like to contribute a block or blocks please click HERE to get the details from her blog. 

This is Greymouth, New Zealand - a small town on the West Coast of New Zealand. This is the town where the mine is situated.

Candles are burning in churches around the country

Praying for the family and friends

Hugs 

A gift for a friend

My friend had a baby a few weeks back. I wanted to make her something for her new little man. I had some Debbie Mumm fabrics in my stash that I just thought were perfect for a little carseat blanket. So this is the finished creation. I love making carseat blankets, I have made a number of them for baby presents over the years.

One of my other very favourite gifts to give when a baby is born is a 'baby cake'. This cake is made out of disposable nappies.. Im sure you have seen these cakes around. My cakes I make are one or two tiers high. With this cake I put in some of my hand embroidered booties and a mathcing beanie

I add rattles, bottles, soxs, and many other baby gifts to them and wrap them in cellophane. If there are any requests I will consider doing a tutorial for this.. please just ask through the comments or email me.

I also wanted to share with you some ideas of what I did for my daughters 4th birthday, last year.

I am a shabby chic lover, as you can tell by these photos.

I set the food table up like this.

Pink and blue was the theme. 

My husband made up a make shift table and I made the tissue paper pom poms.

These are very easy and quick to make. The idea came from Martha Stewart.

So that is just some more things that I wanted to share with you

I hope you are all having a great day.

Here in Auckland today the weather is beautiful.. spring is here

Sadly, the people in Christchurch, the South Island of New Zealand are having a terrible time. The situation is grim to say the least... we are so very thankful that noone was killed. The after shocks sound like they are just as horrifying as the actual event.

Take care

Mum's Quilt

It is my mum's 70th birthday on Monday. I have been collecting these blue fabrics for a while now and saw the pattern in a book by Leanne Beasley...see other post below for the details of it. Leanne did her quilt in a totally different colour way. Im not a blue person but I am very pleased with how the quilt has come up.. I quilted it myself.. I haven't done the best job of it but it will do. I used a variegated thread of different shades of blue....the wadding is a cotton iron on interfacing ..... I have to say this is a fantastic product. I have never used it before and it works wonderfully. When you wash the quilt the fabric comes away from the wadding.

Im also a pincushion lover and Im a fan of Molly Blossom designs

This is the Milliners Hat Pattern made up. I just love working with felt.

This was a trial of the pattern

I just had to take a picture from a few different angles..

Take care

Until the next creation

An Easter Bunny, Carrots and Owly Powly Quilt

Well I have been busy today.... I really wanted to make some the carrots from Clare's blog. I downloaded the tutorial today and had a go and making them. Click HERE for the tutorial for the carrots.

My little bunny, he is made from vintage chenille. He is a design I draw up months and months ago but never finished sewing him up.. well today I decided to finish him. He has a base so he is free standing.... So here he is in a basket with the carrots. I made 3 different sizes of these and decorated them with ribbon and some off cuts of fabric. I cute little deocoration to put the kids eggs into for the morning.

Also my Owly Powly quilt. I haven't put the faces on the owls yet, except for one owl.. but he hasnt got a mouth yet. I am very pleased with the outcome so far. I have cutout one other border which I will be adding circles to...I will probably hand applique them on.. Ill see how I go.

So... Happy Easter everyone...

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

My Christmas Quilt

Here it is.......

This is The Christmas Story Quilt by Annie Downs .... with a difference. I love to embellish...I love to embroider. So I decided to make this quilt in totally different colours to what Annie uses in her quilts...I carnt say Im that happy with the colours in my quilt but .... this is the first quilt I have ever finished. It has a very special story behind it. I

Christmas is a very special time for us as a family. I love to make memories for our children at this time of the year...and for myself too :-) I love to make crafts, cards, decorations and handmade gifts....I love to play christmas carols through the day. Im abit of a family girl...I love having my husband and children around. On Christmas Day I love to see my little children open their presents....what a joy that is to see!! In recent days my little girl and I have been doing things together, we have really been having fun....today we are off to the $2 Shop to do some shopping!!

Merry Christmas to you

Hugs Lisa