Early Bird Christmas Crafting.......Final one for July!

Judith set us a task to create something for the home using two colours and a co-ordinating fabric base in white,cream,black etc....were allowed to be used and this is what I came up with.I used a combination of burgundy,cream with a hint of white for them using a charm pack from Moda "called Lumiere de noel".I love this new pattern I just purchased from a new and upcoming designer called Jo from www.scrapnstitch.blogspot.com/ ,it's her first design called "Trinkets"and hopefully not her last. If you get a chance go visit her blog she has some lovely stuff on it.

More Early Bird Christmas Crafting happening here....

I've been sick most of last week so I haven't had a chance to post these photo's of what I've been working on the previous week or so.These are all going into the christmas box.....journals x5,some to be used as telephone/address books,birthday books or as a writing pad beside the phone.I also made some hand crocheted doilies,and the Bliss bag,my christmas box is certainly starting to fill up.

GIVEAWAY WINNER......

Well today's the day for me to announce the winner for my giveaway.........and the winner is karen from "KAREN'S KORNER" !!!

CONGRATULATIONS KAREN!! I'll also be including a couple of surprises in with your book which I hope you'll like.

Karen you haven't left a way for me to contact you so I''ll give you till next Friday (July 23rd) to contact me or I may have to pick another winner if I don't hear from you.

Craft Forum designer Swap

On the craft forum we had a designer swap and we could choose to do something made by Leanne Beasley or Bronwyn Hayes it was up to the maker to decide what they were making for their partner but in their partners colour choice.

I made Donna the aqua bag using Bronyn Hayes stitcheries done in a raspberry thread and I'm happy to say she loved it! (phew.....wipes brow).

The red and white spot bag is the one my partner Jeanette made for me and I LOVE IT!! It's soooo me.The stitchery reminds me of my sister and I sitting and sewing on my day off work.

Thanks Donna and Jeanette for such a fantastic swap and being my partners :)

GIVEAWAY.....200posts,200 followers!

I decided to have a giveaway for my 200th post and it just so happens that it co-incides with my 200th follower,so a double whammy.

To enter my giveaway requires no feats of leaping and bounding through hoops and rings of fire for extra points all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post and you're in the pot.

The prize for this giveaway is this gorgeous "Tilda" book called "Sew Sunny Homestyle" and is open to everyone.So get your fingers taping as this giveaway will close Thursday 15th July and the winner announced Friday the 16th July.

Early Bird Christams crafting: No.3

I've had this pincushion made up for a while so last night while watching TV I stuffed it and sewed the opening close.I used some of the left over fabric from my elf wall hanging to make it up.The pattern is from a Gail Pan freebie found on her blog and I think I'll be making a few more in diferent colourways for Christmas presents this year.

Early Bird Christmas Crafting: 2 ipod/camera cases

I put these together a week ago and today was perfect to take an outside photo of them.It's been dreary and raining on and off all week,perfect sewing weather.

Linda's block.......charm square BOM

This is the second block I've made in this swap so far.A much easier block than the first one called "a nine patch with a twist"........not so many grey hairs produced due to this one lol.

I'll post a photo of the block Ruth made for when it arrives in my hot little hands.

Early Bird Christmas Crafting......1st finish

Finally I can put a photo up of one of the items I've been working on, a heat pack for a friend who suffers from bad back pains.I was hopeing over this long weekend to get lots fininished and of my to-do list for the Early Bird Christmas sewing but my machine wouldn't cooperate! With the help of mt sister Anne today we discovered that when I changed my needle (late) last night I didn't read the number size properly and put the wrong sized needle in my machine for the material I was using it for which caused the thread to break and lots of skipped stitches grrrrr.

I hope to have a few more things finished over this week and if I do I'll post more photo's on Friday :)

What's on my hook??

I've been bitten by the crochet bug.After finishing my granny rug (see below) I wanted to start another one but different to the last one so this Friday I went shopping and Saturday I started working on this rug.

This pretty pink rug is going to be a present for someones birthday early next year.I hope she likes it?