Lovely Weekend and Blog Party

Etsy Cottage Style are having a Blog Party

I have some nice little tutorials on my site that can be found  here
How to make a fat quarter gift cracker
And a tote bag
And a Bunny
also some freebies

Below is my craft room this is where it all happens

I took a trip to Birmingham Friday with my friend Carole we went to Frank Nutts lovely sewing machine shop to pick up Carols new purchase. 

Whilst I was in the shop I took time to drool over the lovely Bernina 830

and the new Janome Horizon 12000

I did try to convince Frank the shop owner to let me take the Janome home with me to see if I could get him some sales but he wasn't having any of it!
Shame I will just have to keep saving LOL
We were introduced to some of the lovely work that you can learn in one of Claire Muir Courses  Classes that are available at the shop


 Over the weekend I took time out to do a little digitising & machine embroidering I created this lovely china cup & saucer from one of my drawings, I digitised it & then stitched it out and it came out a treat the Size; is 161.8mm wide by 114.79mm high or 8”wide x 5” high approx.
I use Janome hoop RE(140x200) this will make a great little shabby cushion edged with some pretty co-ordinating fabric!

Shabby teacup with Grapes available as a single design in my etsy shop

Close Up

And Below the embroidery made into a Cushion

New Shabby Chic Graphics

New today single Cup top cake stand Graphics in my Etsy Shop

comes in jpg & transparent  PNG

this is a very large file
Size 2480 x 3508 300 dpi

On the second day of Christmas my daughter gave to meeee

Twoooo water melons

This was the Christmas gift that had me wondering!

after a bit of present squeezing I came to the conclusion that my daughter had got me two large water melons for Christmas LOL

Oh yes and something long and hard but I will keep my thoughts to myself on that one

Look what was really in the package two of the biggest balls of wool I have ever seen along with mega sized knitting needles and a crochet hook to match

these needles remind me of those maxi pins we used to have in the 70's
SJ says you can knit rugs with wool & felt them in a hot wash!
Watch this space {:0)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas

Happy Christmas Free Gift

Free shabby cake stand Christmas Tags For You

Enjoy!

Early Christmas

My Early Christmas Present {:0)

Janome MC6600P

I know I am a spoilled brat! LOL

I just love sewing and sewing machines I cant wait to get creative on this little baby

I wanted to use it for quilting as it has a great quilting table & free motion function plus lots more

watch this space LOL

Finished

I have finished my red work quilt!

Its not a huge one I opted for a small size 44" x 54"as I am inclined to lose interest very quickly and thought id better keep it small

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well i thought this would be my winter project but i made it in just a couple of weeks.

I just got very engrossed and could not put it down it was quite addictive!

 

I am not a quilter so it may not be a masterpiece but I did enjoy making it

I ditch quilted around each seam and in the the red squares have put a quilted medallion in each one  I then free hand stippled around the outer border to finish I made tape in the same fabric as the back.

I will be starting on my next one really soon

Redwork

This week I have been working on some Redwork

I thought I would start on a redwork quilt with embroidered squares edged with this wonderful fabric 

called Redwork Rendevous by Alix Anderson 

I thought I cauld work on it over the winter months and hopefully by spring I will have a redwork quilt!

Redwork tea Cosy

I purchased a copy of a wonderful Japanese Redwork book that contained a pattern for a sweet little rework tea cozy the below image is a snap of two of the panels in the making

I am making it in the hoop on my sewing machine although the pattern was a hand embroidery pattern

I managed to digitize it so I could be really lazy and sew it by machine {:0)

It would be really nice to use for tea & scones on the lawn next summer!



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