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

Christmas Lights !!!!

It's that time of the year again and I have been decorating my yard and house with  Christmas Lights.  This is my favourite time of the year.  I love hearing the excited little voices of the children when thay pull up to see the lights.  On Christmas Eve we will hand out lollies to the children.   My grandsons have Santa Suits so they will be helping as well.  Having my family home for Christmas is going to make my Christmas very special this year.

                                                                                  


                                                                 

Secret Santa Gift !!!

A quick and easy project.  I needed a secret santa gift for a male, so I embroidered a towel with his name and a car in one colour.   This type of embroidery is known as redwork,  I decided to do it in a dark brown. It turned out really well.  When I first started machine embroidery I wouldn't even look at redwork but now I find this type of embroidery very interesting, seeing how a design can be made from just one colour.  The other advantage is that there are very few jump stitches.

    

Embroidered T- Shirts

A couple of more Christmas t-shirts for my grandsons.  I stitched these out on my new machine, it stitches so beautifully and is so quiet, which is a bonus when I am stitching in the wee hours of the morning. The Nice/Naughty design is from Urban Threads.  If you are looking for something a bit different, Urban Threads is the place to go.  The other t-shirt is made up of 2 designs, but I can't remember where they came from.  I hope the boys will like them.   They are getting older now and I find it hard to find designs that they will like.

                                                                                

Santa came Early !!!

After the safety switch activated in my Embroidery Machine, I had to travel 2 hours to see the Brother mechanic.  I was told that they wouldn't even get to look at it till December 22nd.  So, whats a girl to do without her machine.  She buys a new one doesn't she ...  This one is a brother 1250D and is a sewing machine as well as an embroidery machine.  I had a lot of embroidery to finish before Christmas and this machine was on special and I got it for a good price.    I love Christmas!!!!
   

                                                                             

Christmas T- Shirts for the Grandkids!!!!

I love Christmas and every year I make T- Shirts for the grandkids.  It was easy when they were smaller but now they are reaching their teenage years finding suitable designs is getting harder.  The two Merry Christmas Designs came from Embroidery Library and the Kangaroo came fom Rickys Embroidery.  As two of the older boys live at the beach I thought that these designs where perfect for them and the Santa Kangaroo for Cooper who is four.  These designs stitched out beautifully and look great.
                                                                                 

                                                                                  

FNSI

For FNSI I decided to catch up on some Christmas Embroidering.  I am going to give my work mates some embroidered christmas tea towels for an exchange gift.   Last week when I was doing the T- Shirts for my grandsons my Brother 750D decided to throw a bit of a tantrum and activiated the safety device.  It will probadly be another week before I can get to town to get it fixed.   Luckly I still have my Brother Snoopy which I bought in 1998, but it only embroiders a 4x4 field so I had a change of plans and had to look for smaller designs. It still stitches out beautifully.  I would like to thank Bobbi and Heidi for making FNSI such a productive night.



Baby Singlets!!!!!

I was asked to embroider some baby singlets for a friend.   I needed  a very small design.  So after going through my designs on the computer and coming up empty, I remembered the Brother Card I had with small designs.  I haven't used these cards in such a long time, so now I am going to pull out all the brother cards and use them.  The designs were made for the Brother machine and they stitch perfectly.  I used the smallest  hoop and hooped the tearaway and sprayed the tearaway with embroidery spray and then placed the singlet on the sprayed tearaway.  I smoothed the singlet out stretching it slightly ( because when the baby has the singlet on the singlet stretches). I used some pins to make sure the singlet didn't move.  I placed some water soluble topping on top of the singlet and did the embroidery.  I was very happy with the result.