Clothes for Bridie

From clothes for bridie

From clothes for bridie

From clothes for bridie

From clothes for bridie

From clothes for bridie

From clothes for bridie

Thanks for all your lovely comments from my last post - it was lovely to read that you all felt the same way.

So as promised - back to sewing , here are some clothes that I have been busy making for my newest little niece. I have used some lovely reversible cotton/linen from here (that is the brown spotty fabric) and the rest of the fabric all came from Amitie of course. My mum made the gorgeous little knitted cardigan. Just wish I could show you some photos of my niece wearing the clothes - there is such a shortage of babies in these parts!

PJ's for Sarah

The dilemma of what to give a 15 year old for her birthday - pj's (handmade of course) with a bought longsleeved tee from Cotton On Body, fluffy white slippers and a matching drawstring bag!

I just love the fabric - I bought it at Spotlight and it really is lovely - beautiful to work with too. I think it is Japanese!
The top didn't photograph too well - it is much less orange in real life.

Some New Bibs

I made these bibs for a very special new arrival, Ava. I had fun experimenting with my machine's buttonhole stitch. I was able to use some much treasured Liberty scraps. The bibs are fully reversible too.

Please Meet Roxy & Roxanne

Lachie, my youngest who is 7 years old, and I had a wonderful day yesterday. He was feeling a little sad (tired) and as it was such a cold day, he didn't want to go outside to play, so he asked if we could make Robot Boy and Robot Girl which is one of the new patterns in the Audrey & Maude pattern range.

I let him raid my stash and this is what he came up with!. I was very impressed with his choices - the colours look great together and he particularly wanted both the boy robot and the girl robot to have matching arms!!!!!!!! I was allowed to add a few extras like the gorgeous robot tape that I bought from Japan a while back and raid my vintage button stash.

He then redesigned the panel on the front and I worked straight from his drawn instructions. He also specified no 'tinkle' for either of them. In case you were wondering (like me) the 'tinkle' refers to the antenna that is on the original pattern.

Louise dreamt up this wonderful pattern and both Lachie and I are so pleased with the results. It was great being able to change the basic design and make it our very own. So now it is off for 'show and tell' at school. I had forgotten how nice it is to make something for one's own child!

Lewis' Quilt

Finally finished hand quilting this quilt for my nephew. I am very pleased with how fresh it looks.

Now, the sad part, it has to be sent to it's new owner. I always hate parting with my quilts - it's like losing a good friend or finishing a really good book.

I know that it will be loved in its new home.

Baby Shower

I had a a very busy weekend. One of my very lovely cousins is having her first baby next month, so we had a little baby shower for her. Lots of beautiful food and gorgeous cup cakes which looked far too good to eat. The diet went out the window on that day. I decided to make Caz a floor quilt for her baby, but I didn't get it finished in time for the shower. I will finish quilting it before her baby arrives - no prizes for guessing what sex the baby is! I also made an Edward the Elephant, a bib, and some embellished onesies.


And couldn't let you go without an obligatory shot of Ellie Bella. She had a bit of a pamper last week, and her gorgeous coat is all gone - she is now looks like a rodent. My 12 year old son thought that she looked absolutely shocking, so insisted that we go out and buy her a pink hoodie!! Just wait until you see her in her little sundress for the Summer!

More Photos

Here are some photos of a swap I did with Marianne -

I made the older two girls some Little Jammies from this pattern.

This is such a great pattern. Very easy to follow and one pattern contains sizes from Size 1 to 12. It is also unisex. I have lost count of how many pairs I have made now.

These jammies are made from fabric from Amitie, of course. The pink set is Japanese - Lecien (I think) and the blue/green pair is Moda Swell range.

The elephant's name is Eloise and is a brand new pattern from Audrey & Maude (details to follow soon) - and the bib is just scraps from other projects.





And for all of you who have been asking about my new camera it is a Canon EOS 40D - the lens is 17mm - 85mm. I find it quite heavy on my wrist but the result is certainly worth it. It isn't a camera to throw into the purse!

Here's a few things that I have been up to apart from all the usual mundane things like washing, ironing, cleaning, supervising children, and going mad!

The first photos is still a WIP but I have only few more blocks to quilt. I am really loving this quilt, the colours are so lovely and fresh. The blocks are really quite big too which shows the fabric off really well. This is one for my latest nephew who was born in November, so I think I am doing pretty well getting it done before he is 6 months old. I will be really sad to see this quilt go, as I am really am attached to it.

A couple of weeks ago we held a dinner party at our house (not my idea) and as usual if I have an idea in my mind about the food or table decoration or whatever, I have to go through with it.

You might recall at the Living Creatively stand at the Stitches & Craft Show in Melbourne, Jenny and Fi made gorgeous fabric flowers from Liberty fabric. I just loved them, so I thought it would be really nice if I made some for the female guests to take home as a memento of the evening. There were a couple from the States and another couple visiting from interstate. So I made about 8 of them and I turned them into a brooch for them. I used them to make up the floral centrepiece for the table.

Jenny taught me a really easy way how to make them and so did Fi. I stuck a swarovski crystal in the middle of them just to add a bit of a sparkle from the candle light.

Then of course, I thought, maybe we should have something for the guys, so I made a batch of nougat - NOTE: please don't ever try making this without a Kitchenaid or Kenwood. So I made that (which is quite temperamental) and wrapped it up in cellophane and ribbons and they became the place card settings.

So here are some photos of the result. I spent so much time planning all of this, I really didn't have much time to think about the menu, but it did all come together - my husband is a wonderful cook and a fantastic cleaner upperer in the kitchen. He did a fantastic job. I think we make a really good team together. I didn't here any complaints from the guests.