A Few More Dolls.
Posted on August 26, 2010 | Comments Off on A Few More Dolls.
One of the dolls I made very early on has remained a favourite. She is called Eliza-May and is designed by Rosemary McQueen from Teddyworks in Australia. The pattern was originally in one of their books and was then reproduced in an early Dolls, Bears and Collectables magazine. With such a cheeky face, you have to smile.
I made the next doll, Priscilla from Fruitfull Hands, to try out a few new techniques. I had to tea dye the fabric and laces and also had to varnish the body of the doll. I liked the end result.
I’m not sure of the pattern designer for this one but I will update when I have the information. She is just a fun looking doll and I really like the over size head and the happy face.
A Few Dolls.
Posted on August 25, 2010 | Comments Off on A Few Dolls.
As part of my endeavour to record the things I make, I also need to include some cloth dolls. I have been making these dolls for nearly 20 years and have seen a lot of changes in designs. I think I still tend to prefer the country style patterns, especially the raggedies.
Unfortunately the pattern name for the first doll eludes me. I think it was in a doll magazine at some stage.
The next one is Be Mine Raggedy Angel through The Country Cupboard.
This last one is a Candleberry Country pattern from Yarragon and was designed by Sharon Boyes.
And Blankets, Too!
Posted on August 24, 2010 | Comments Off on And Blankets, Too!
Each grandchild also received an embroidered blanket. Both the designs have come from Inspirations books or magazines.
The first one was stitched on doctor’s flannel and finished with satin blanket binding.
This is a close up of the embroidery. It was quite a traditional design.
The next blanket was on wool blanketing using mostly woollen threads. This was a far more contemporary design.
Baby Quilts.
Posted on August 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Baby Quilts.
When each of our grandchildren was born I made quilts for them.
The first quilt was based around Australian animal prints so they could identify our native animals. Basic layout of squares and then quilted with a pattern that has some similarities to boomerangs. Unfortunately not the best photo, but the only one I have.
At the same time I also made this baby quilt using fabrics I had found in Zooks in Intercourse, PA, on an earlier visit.The pattern is called Sickle from a book by Ursula Reikes – Even More Quilts for Baby. I finished it with an overall meander quilting pattern.
The next quilt was made using bright fabrics in half square triangles sewn into a pinwheel design. I used a bright butterfly and flower design for the border and also appliqued some of those butterflies on the body of the quilt. I quilted this one in an all over looped design with a variegated thread.
The most recent quilt for our grandchildren was actually made when we were on a visit to them in the US. It was great to do the embroidery and have our grand daughter watch each animal being created. I was able to finish the piecing while we were there, then was lucky enough to find a neighbour who was able to do the quilting and binding for completion. I chose this design because our grand daughter was really keen on singing the Old MacDonald’s Farm song. The pattern is an Ella and Skysie design.
And the back was pieced with the left over fabric.
Chocolate.
Posted on August 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Chocolate.
A few weeks ago we participated in a chocolate walking tour in the centre of Melbourne. It was organised by Chocoholic Tours and our guide was the lovely Suzie. We started off in the Block Arcade at Haigh’s Chocolates with samples and information about chocolate and its quality. Our next stop was Deva where we found out about their process for printing any message/text you wanted on their chocolates. Loved the mango and passionfruit flavours there.
At Chokolait we received delicious chocolate shots. Sooooo good!!
Our next stop was Koko Black where we watched chocolate making and sampled some champagne truffles – mmmmmmm!!!
Our tour wound up at Laurant Boulangerie Patisserie where we had the most divine afternoon tea – if you had any room left to fit it in!
It was great fun and only took two hours. And we now know a lot more about chocolate.
Can of Worms
Posted on August 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Can of Worms
This quilt was made using a technique from Debbie Caffrey’s book, Open a Can of Worms.
I was able to again use lots of fabric scraps that I already had. Only a few purchases were made to complete the quilt.
It has been quilted with an overall autumn leaf pattern.
Winter Weather
Posted on August 19, 2010 | Comments Off on Winter Weather
Yesterday was cold, wet and windy. Just a perfect day for staying inside and sewing. I decided to share my time between two projects. The first is a snowball quilt I have been making with a variety of pink fabrics.
I did straight stitch quilting between the rows to secure the quilt. I am planning to free-motion quilt each snowball with a bubble pattern in pink variegated thread. Hope it works!
I had also spent some time playing with spots and dots. Iwanted to limit the colours to see if this worked effectively in a 4 patch pattern.
I have arrange them on the design wall and will wait a few days before sewing them together. I am thinking of separating each 4 patch with narrow white sashing.
Blue Christmas
Posted on August 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Blue Christmas
A bit of a different colour for a traditional Christmas quilt. I bought the fabric from the Fat Quarter Shop back when they made up Jolly Packs! Each square has a basic border of either the light or dark blue crackle. Squares were then placed in a diamond pattern radiating out from the centre.
Many of the squares had Christmas scenes.
The fabric was called Toile Christmas. I used basic stitch in the ditch quilting.
In The Beginning.
Posted on August 16, 2010 | Comments Off on In The Beginning.
This is the one I consider to be my first real quilt. I used quality cotton fabric, followed a pattern and worked in a class.
The pattern is Garden Twist from a book by That Patchwork Place, called, quite appropriately, In The Beginning.
I worked on this in classes at Sewing Connection in Pakenham.
I did very simple straight line quilting to finish it off.
Circles
Posted on August 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Circles
This was a great quilt to use lots of scrap fabrics. It was made using the raw edge applique technique and came together quickly. The idea is to wash and tumble dry the quilt when it is finished so that the raw edges fluff up.
Quilting was simply stitch in the ditch.
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