Armchair Update

I thought I might post a couple more pics of the succulent armchair. The plants have grown well and are beginning to fill out on the chair.





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Christmas Card

So the 2012 Christmas card has hit the deck. I think it was well received ;)





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Misty

Bloody out of season lambs. Why am I such a big softie?!


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Birthday apron

Thanks Milly for sewing me my gorgeous retro apron! I love it.









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Birthday

I blogged this a week ago but it never showed up. It was my birthday last weekend and what better gift for a husband with no ideas to give his newly fanatical quilting wife than a spanking new sewing machine!


I got it Saturday morning and spent all of Saturday afternoon giving it a workout. Milly had a quilt pieced together that she never got around to finishing so I spent the afternoon whipping it up.


Pretty much the moment I finished it I got an email from friends announcing the birth of their son! So I'll package this quilt up and send it off.

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Pleased to meet ewe

Meet Icey. She is a 2011 pet lamb that lives around the sheds and driveway. She is quite besotted with me. Someone left the yard gate open last night and we always sleep with our French doors open. She heard me chatting to Richard when we were in bed and decided to pop by for a visit!

In quilty news this is one of the packages that was waiting for me in the mail. I've been playing around with layout and I think I like this one:


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Red strip quilt update

I finally got back to the red strip quilt tonight. I sewed on the red border followed by the white spot one. I think I might have made an error with the fabric tension though. Because the quilt topper is long thin strips it has a sort of concertina effect so when I was sewing on the long edge I stretched it right out to counteract this. I might have gone to far though as the red border had a ruffle effect. Adding the spotty border has helped somewhat and I'm hoping tight wadding and quilting will help it hold its shape properly.



I also whipped up a final dolly quilt for a friends daughter to thank her for having one of my kids over the weekend. I was dying to use the bus stop people fabric so gave it a whirl here.


I also gave the stitches on my new machine a trial run by using a different stitch pattern down the middle of each strip.


With all 3 dolly quilts I have been uber lazy and not hand stitched down the binding. Much quicker to do it on the machine and I figured the dollies wouldn't mind, but gee it really spoils the look of the quilt.
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