Softie Sundays

I've been getting creative in the sewing room with some softies.  Little hand & machine stitch soft toys.   This one is all about wonder and dreaming on a Sunday...  LOL I think I might keep adding some bits to it.    

I need to do some hand stitching on them..

If you pop over here to Grrl+dog you can see where I'm getting my inspiration from.

Have a great week all.
K x x

Meet my Mum.....

So I would like to introduce you to my mum.  She is a crazy knitter/crocheter/sewer and general crafty person.  The quilt is a gift from her sister, is over 20 years old, and hangs on her craft room wall.

I remember seeing my mum at her sewing machine as a child, or working on some different knitting project.  There was always hand knits throughout the winter that she had knitted for us.

Well retirement hasn't slowed her, funny I think she is more inspired to knit now for pleasure rather then out of necessity as in previous years.

She has been knitting up a storm for the past couple of years, here are a few of her recent projects.  They are all for sale.  If you would like to purchase then please get in contact with me I will get you in contact with her.

 
She has her hand knits at local markets, in the Southern Highlands including Robertson and Bundanoon which is on monthly. If you would like to see some of her other work.


This is a sweet little cardigan for about a 7 year old.









This is a poncho, possible for a 7 - 10 year old. 




 This last one is a ladies, Size 12- 14.

Well I hoped you liked meeting my mum.  If anyone was wondering where and why I'm crafty, well know you know.  I have no hope  :) it is all in the genes. 

Happy sewing, knitting, painting or whatever it is that gets you creating something.

K x x  

Wacky Wednesdays

Funny things happen sometimes.

You know this morning, I woke up thinking about a gorgeously close girlfriend.    I felt like I had had the most amazing catch up session with her.   You know what I mean, that we had just spent hours catching up, laughing and ribbing one another, drinking wine and giggling our butts off.  

Well I collected my mail this afternoon, and guess what?  save the date.......

A save the date card in the post, for a wedding...  LOL her wedding to a man who so looks her match.

We've been slack you know, busy with life as we know it.  But you know, I woke up this morning and all I have been thinking about today is her.

OMG I'm so excited to see this stunner walk on down the aisle.
Congratulations girlie.

Love you long time.
K x

Do you know what I love?

I absolutely love learning new things. 

It doesn't seem to matter how old I get, I just love it.

I've managed to figure out how to create different pages on my blog.  Eg:  check out my cooking adventures.  I've even managed to figure out how to link the pages back to the original recipe.

Sensational

Hitting mid week stride.  Woo hoo..... 
Have a good one...  K x

Birthdays everywhere

Where have I been.....  Well I've been busy.  I have managed to get a free builtin wardrobe & a wonderful friend helped me get in what I wanted, which will give me heaps of storage in my wardrobe.  Oh and I would like to say I got it all for nicks.  How?  Freecycle on Yahoo.  Someone had ripped it out of their bedroom and didn't want it.  After borrowing a ute (woo hoo I got to be a ute chick)  and someone to help me get it all in the ute and home in one piece.  There was enough for me, and friend.  Sensational.

The picture on the right is how much rain we have been getting. OMG...  Nothing like a little bit of rain.  Saturday morning it absolutely bucketed down.  & I had a party to go to...  Arghhh  thankfully it started to clear.

How many birthdays can one have in a row...? 

October is the month for me.  But they are nearly all done now.  :))
I have been trying to get some housie stuff done.  My front courtyard garden has been so overgrown with grass and weeds.  Crazy, so I got cracking this morning and cleared it out.  I will replant out the whole thing the plan is to get a weed mat in so hopefully it wont get this bad again..

There hasn't been a lot of sewing going on of late..   

But there is something coming..... 

Have a great week all.

Kath

x x

Weekends away as the spring kicks off

There wasn't a lot of sewing this weekend. 

I headed up north to catch up with my sister, her partner and a little girl in their care who is very sweet.

Can you find a better way to spend a Friday afternoon?  Not me in the pic, but seriously, I was wishing it was.  :)))  Casually floating about.  Not a care in the world.

Looking back towards the hinterland at the back of Coffs Harbour from Sawtell.

This is the river that runs through Bellingen.  The one that floods when the rain comes.  But this weekend the kids where swimming and jumping in the deep parts off the bridge.  The water crystal clear.

The Saturday craft market in Bellingen with the locals.  And a new op shop in town. Bizarrely the place to be. 

So as you can see I didn't get a lot of sewing done. However I did have a relaxing couple of days.

Oh & I did get to go through soem of my sisters patchwork books/magazines looking for something new to get into. 
And I would like to say I've got it.  But it's a surprise.  So you will all have to wait till it is seriously under way for a sneak peek... 

Happy week all.
K x

Sunny Stitchy Sundays

 

 I have this little stash of fabrics that I nicked off someone.  LOL & and yes they know that I nicked off with them, maybe, perhaps they have forgotten.  Which is always possible.  Anywho I was too'ing & fro'ing as to what to do with them this morning.  Nothing was jumping to mind. 

They are a bit boring. . . so they are tucked back where I found them.   Until something springs to mind.  I was thinking something really modern since they aren't.

The quilt along...  it is taking some motivation to keep onto of late.....  :))  I figure I will just do a couple every now and then.  Fingers crossed I get to finish it some time soon..  

But I was a little stuck on what to do?  Do I start another quilt?

Finish something that has been hanging around for a little while?

I have been a little on the sick side of things, so my motivation is a little slow this weekend.




The spider pattern block from a couple of weeks ago, popped into a cushion.

I have so much of this hydrangea range in the cupboard it is a bit on the ridiculous side.  What can I say.  I love it..  Oh and I do have different colour ways too.  So I wasn't short on a piece to do the back.


Happy week all..

K x

Shiny little things

It was a hassle trying to get more covered buttons. No credit card facilities, so I thought I would try making my own.  I just grabbed a little packet from Spotlight and followed the instructions.  Cute hey.  They look good, and it was easy peasy...  I want them for the next set of sprocket cushions...  Which are happening below.

I was surfing about the other day, on a couple of other blogs that I lurk on and I found a great tut for a spiders web block here .  Honestly with instructions as clear as this tut how can you go wrong! 

The effect is amazing, shame I don't have too much more of this hydrangea fabric left in this colour way.  Oh well.  I'm visualising another cushion maybe.

The last of the Sprocket cushions, I'm just struggling trying to get the button onto this set.  I will have to try again.  Maybe I have too much wadding in them.  Oops.....  :)  These ones are a bit wonky.  Not to worry. 

Enjoy the last of the weekend

K x

Me or the Zipper.....

I have had this Japanese dragonfly stitchery completed for AGES...  & AGES.  It has been sitting in the pile for things to get finished off.  Which you all know is massive...

To tell you the truth the thought of installing a zipper has scared the pants off me.  But they look good in cushions and it lets you take out the insert and wash it.  

Well today I sucked it up, how hard can it be.....

It was actually a bit of a cinch. 

Suppose it helps when you get to check out tutorials like this over at sew mama sew :)  So a very big thanks...  for the confidence.

The tutorial suggested installing a little flap over the zipper which means the cushion is now reversible. 

Two for one love it. 
Only problem now is which side do I like best???

Anywho, enough chitter chatter on the successful cushion... 

K x

Ps. Last nights Boeuf Bourguignon was sensational, if you get a chance try it out.

Blissfull Saturdays. . . . . . . .

 I love Saturday mornings, you know, the ones....  where your  plan is to hang out in your PJ's till after lunch. With no one to tell you off.  No one around wanting to drag you off somewhere.  Today has been productive.

So this is the quilt top done.  And on the right where I started this morning.  Pinning all the strips together. It is a single bed size.  I was thinking borders, but I like it the way it is.

Whats in the oven for dinner??  Boeuf Bourguignon, for the Aussie readers, beef stew, LOL french style.  Julia Child's is being tested out at my place for dinner.  Can I say, 1/2 bottle of french red, and the smells wafting from the oven are amazing.  I have had it in the oven since 3pm.  Not long to go.   Dinner should be sensational.  Served of course with mushrooms and onions as per the original instructions from Julia herself, oh and a glass of red. 

Only one thing to say,  Bon Appetit

Happy weekend

K x