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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Ooohh, loving it!

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Its All About The Food...

I'm still plugging away at the sewing, but whilst I don't have much to show you except this hexagon quilt I've started working on


  I do have some tantalizing  delectable delights to tease your taste buds with. A visual feast for the eyes, yada yada yada.
I have been working on a cookbook for our local Primary School as a fundraiser. I've been traversing the countryside with my camera photographing super yummy looking cakes, slices, puddings and cookies.
So I thought I'd tease you all.

Double Slice Layer Cake

Ive finally finished and photographed the Double Slice Layer Cake quilt that I started when Milly was here, visit before last, back in January. We made the same quilt with different fabrics. I used Coquette by Moda which is lovely fabric.

Anyway, I picked it up from the quilters a few weeks ago then I bound it and just this morning got around to photographing it. It is a lovely big quilt that I will keep on the couch over winter to snuggle under. I've taken the red strip quilt off the couch to make room for this one and I've hung it on the wall.



As for the Double Slice Layer Cake quilt....












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Star Quilt

On the last morning of her visit Milly showed me how to piece together a wonky star block and I've been working on them ever since.

This morning I had the idea to make it up to a single bed sized quilt and donate it to be auctioned at our schools Art Exhibition later this year. Our school is very small and only has 48 students from kindy through to yr 7. The art exhibition is our major fundraiser for the year. Hopefully someone will want to buy it for their kid!


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Easter Sewing

My sister and her kids came down for their annual Easter visit. Milly and I had lots of sewing planned.

First cab off the rank was a skirt I had in mind. I bought the pattern and fabric when in Perth last and was relying on instruction from Milly to sew it up.

They arrived Friday afternoon and the cousins were delighted to see each other. Saturday morning Milly brought to my attention that Spotlight had a 40% off sale and perhaps an emergency dash was required. Richard was appalled and informed us we'd spend more on petrol than we would save at Spotlight. I don't think he realised how much we intended to buy to get a decent saving!

So we farmed out the kids, Sam and Matilda went trucking with Richard, Elizabeth and Angus went to Mums tasked with looking after William and Henry and George came with us.

We had a lovely old time and got some fabulous fabrics. I picked several just to boost my stash, some binding for the pastel quilt and some more skirt fabric.

The only down side to the trip was the loss of 6 hours sewing time! We got home and immediately set to rectifying the situation.




We bought this super cute people fabric and a contrasting red polka dot to make a small ironing pad each. We both own a small iron that we use for piecing work so we don't have to get up and trek to the laundry all the time.




These we the skirts we both made from a very simple pattern. Mine is the fine paisley cord at the rear and Milly's is the stripe one at the front.










My niece also joined us on the sewing bender and made herself several mini skirts.




This is the other skirt I made myself. The fabric was beautiful but the skirt didn't quite come off how I imagined.

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