Picnic rugs and pinwheels.

I have been working on the rainbow picnic rug. I added wadding and sandwiched the plastic baked stripey fabric with the rainbow zigzag.


I quilted it very lightly as the more holes in the bottom of it the more moisture it will let in.


I tried to get a picture of the quilting, but it doesn't show up. I just quilted simple straight lines down through the black zig zags. It was hard to do this well as the plastic was very tacky and kept sticking.


I also went a little crazy shopping online the other day and its much easier to justify a $14 charm pack than a $40 jelly roll...especially when you buy 6!


So I used 1 up on this pretty pinwheel quilt. I particularly like the triangle 'flagging' around the edge.


I still need to back and bind this one.

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Dashing Dashunds

So I was in the moment and whipped up another pair of pants last night. I bought the patchwork fabric as is from Spotlight and decided to chop off the bottom and add this cute dashund fabric I got from spotlight. Woof!









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Hexagon Quilt

Whilst I'm on a blogging roll I thought I'd mention that I finished the hexagon quilt 😜

I really really love it. It's a keeper for sure and is the right size to drape over a big wooden box I have in the lounge room.







Milly suggested the border fabrics and I'm really glad I went with them as they set of the hexagons so well.

Thought I might throw in a quick pic of Henry and William snoozing on the couch quilt.




I have also finished the topper of the zig zag quilt. I'm backing it with the plastic backed fabric I got recently and I'm going to make it my picnic blanket for the car.


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Life's Not Easy Being Green.

I dashed up to Perth 2 days ago to go to a funeral and whilst I was there I visited my sister and snaffled some gorgeous fabric from her stash.


There was just enough to make a pair of totally cool pants for William.


I also improvised and had a go at contrasting turned up cuffs.


I'm sure I havnt done them right but they look good enough for a first go.


My sewing is very basic so these are just the pattern from PJ bottoms with no pockets, zips etc. Quick and easy for instant reward.

I did go to spotlight (again)...

So I've just come back from 5 days in Perth with the kids. The highlight of the trip was going with Milly to watch Adam Hills perform. Some may recall he was the host of ABC's Spicks and Specks. He was absolutely hilarious and I highly recommend catching one of his shows if you can.

Whilst hanging out with Milly I got an idea for another quilt. It involved raiding Milly's scrap stash to come up with the following:




I got the idea from here: http://funthreads.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/zig-zag-rainbow-tutorial.html but I've been wanting to a colourful quilt with a black background for a while so I decided to swap it out with the white.




Pity I haven't sewed a single seam yet. It's looking a bit tedious!



I took the hexagon quilt up to Perth so I could get some border ideas to make it larger. From Milly's stash (and at her suggestion) I decided on a thin 1 inch grey and white stripe border, followed by a 4 inch blue one.


From spotlight I got inspirational backing fabric and more stripey fabric from Milly's stash for the binding.

Lastly I had realised that my stash was looking a bit thin so I decided to pad it out with some new purchases. A very eclectic mix resulted and I think my favourite is The Little Prince fabric at the bottom of the shot. The stripey stuff at the top is plastic coated and is going to be used as the underside of a picnic blanket. I'll quilt the top and sandwich it with wadding and keep it in the car boot as a picnic blanket. Not sure what the topper will be. Maybe flying geese. I started some of those a while ago and am keen to do a flying geese quilt.


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