Happy Mother's Day

Today I received these beautiful flowers for Mothers Day from my son and his family.  I would like to wish all  mothers everywhere a very Happy Mothers Day and I would like to share my flowers with you.

                                                                                   

Quilt Blocks for the Children's Hospital !!!!!

                                                                         

Our Patchwork group, Banana Patch is making two Quilts for a Childrens Hospital in Brisbane. We had to make  four blocks each, two for girls and two for boys.  I really enjoyed making the girl blocks, something a little different for me.. I used Heat and Gone as the topping on the girl squares.  I really like this product. I will post the quilt when it is finished.  We always try to do a community project  each year.  Last year we made Wheelie Walker Bags for the Retirement Village.

                                                                            

40th Birthday Towel

I was asked to embroider a towel for a 40th Birthday.  I wanted something a bit different and found this design at Embroidery Designs. com.   I decided to try out Heat and Gone for the topping instead of Solvy.
I was really impressed with it and pulled off the Heat and Gone from around the design and then with the tip of the iron I just touched any bits that were left and they disappeared.  I didn't want to flatten the pile of the towel so that why I just used the tip of the iron.   So much easier than Solvy unless you can wash the item. I did wash the towel before I embroidered on it.

                                                                            

Carrot Gift Bags for Easter

I wanted to make something for my grandsons for Easter.  I decided to make a carrot gift bag.  I was really happy with the way they turned out.  I put some lightweight ironon vilene on the orange fabric an then cut out the carrot shape.  I did a few lines and squiggles to make it look like a carrot in a very small satin stitch. For the leafy top I cut a sort of rounded shape, 4 for each carrot top.  I stitched 2 pieces right sides together leaving about 3/4 inch at each end. Turned  them the right way and stitched the carrot top accross the top, wrong side of carrot and  right side of carrot top ( just a single layer). I then bought the other piece of the carrot top,down over the seam, turned under the edge and stitched close to the edge. This is where I threaded the ribbon. I stitched up the carrot right sides together making sure not to catch the open ends where the ribbon is threaded.  I filled them with Easter goodies.

I thought they looked cute.,  I am always looking for ideas for boys if anyone has any I would love to hear from you.
                   
                                                                                

                                                                                

Bunting for the Boys !!!!!

Thinking of things to make for my Grandsons is not easy.  I decided to make some Bunting for them.  Since the footy season is about to start, I thought footy colours would be a great choice.   I made these In the Hoop and bought the  design from The Mad Woman of Locke Street.  I bought the Christmas Bunting and took the blank one and embroidered the letter that I wanted on it.  I have a program called PE Design Lite which allows me to do this on the computer.  I am making Christmas Bunting for gifts for  Christmas but got side tracked.  I will get them finished by Christmas I hope.

                                                                                  

Life gets in the way !!!!!!

Today I decided I was going to update my Blog.   I never seem to have any spare time these days.  I found these couple of hats in my sewing room  and decided I should embroider something on them before the grandkids out grow them.  It was quite a challenge as I don't have a cap hoop .  Cooper also put in an order for a blue shirt with a white bunny ( I had made one like this for him when he was 2, it was green with a chocolate bunny).  He loved the Toadally Lovable hat and his shirt but said the bow was different. Kids!!!!
The other shirt was for my older grandson as he is always on face book and he always clicking the like button.

                                                                            

Nasturtiums !!!!!

I made this three tiered skirt a very long time ago.  It was my favourite but it doesn't fit anymore.  I cut the flowers and leaves out and ironed vliesofix applique paper on the back of the flowers and then ironed them on to the bottom of the skirt. I then cut out the little holes on the flowers.  I used the satin stitch on my sewing machine and stitched around all the flowers and leaves and the the cut outs.  To finish off I stitched black beads in the centre of the flower.   The photo doesn't show but the flowers are in three shades. 

Merry Christmas to You All !!!!

I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry and Safe Christmas.  As usual I am running out of time with my family arriving to-morrow.  Still got heaps to do.  It has been a couple of years since we have had Christmas together, so I am really excited.  The video is of my five grandsons.  They love these videos and I think they are cute too. 

                             

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas