Jenny of Elefantz give-away

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Cheers

Ellice

Sewing rooms & guest rooms

Last weekend was wonderful, having spent it with my sister and three of her daughters, and also had help sorting out my sewing machine - it was giving me grief and not being helpful at all - I was getting ready to trade it in on a different brand of machine. The problems have all been sorted, and I have made friends with my machine - have even given her the name of Xantha, so a new friendship has finally begun. I have two old sewing machines which I am now going to clean and (hopefully) get working properly again. If that happens, one machine will be gifted to either D4 or D5, and sewing lessons will be included with the gift. If not, I will have two spare machines to play with, instead of one.

The other activity (for want of a better word) I have begun, is the transformation of a spare room into a serviceable workroom come guest room. For this to be totally workable, I will need to take out a built in shelving wardrobe, and build some floor to ceiling shelves, so that I can store everything in a logical and orderly manner. That task was begun today, then I thought that I might just put in a pictorial log of the progress, so the room at the beginning of the transformation are as follows.







Well, what a mess, now all I need to do is to be really tough on myself and get rid of the stuff that I haven't seen for a few years. Then build some floor to ceiling shelves, and stack everything properly so that it is easily found - a place for everything and everything in its place (omg, what have I let myself in for???)
Keep posted for the continuing saga of the room transformation, and also for any more completed projects. Should be simple [:0

Thanks for visiting, and keep the creative juices flowing.

Ellice

Baby quilts and bags

First two stitcheries for baby quilt #1 finished. Only about 14 to go.


Appliquéd front and back panels for D4's nappy bag, photos below show the progress of the construction of the bag.




This section of photos show the completed bag from all aspects. All that is needed now is to add decorative closures for each of the pockets.
N0w I just hope that my daughter likes it, and it is as useful as I hope it will be (is there enough space for all the requirements for the baby on an outing?)

One more project completed, lots more to go...............

This is a wonderful weekend, I have my sister and 3 nieces visiting. We are now waiting for all to be ready, so that we can visit the younger mothers of the family, and their babies. They are so cute (but I'm really not biased)

Well that is it for this session, on to some more creations hahaha

To borrow from "Mellie & Me" - May the floss (or your choice of medium) be with you

Ellice

Fibonacci patterns in quilting

Just a general query, hoping some one can help me with. Has anyone made a quilt using the Fibonacci number sequencing to dictate the pattern? Does anyone have information on where I can get instruction for this patterning? I have searched the internet, and there are instructional workshops, and am about to visit the local library, but so far have had no can help me with this request.

Cheers

Ellice

No sew weekend

Had plans of sewing lots of things this weekend, prior to returning to work after a few weeks holiday, but this has been curtailed. Have had the pleasure of looking after two grandchildren today, and D4, husband and baby (5.5m) arrived to stay for the next two nights, and am having 3 oldest grandchildren (7y, 3y, 8.5m) staying on Saturday night. Which leaves absolutely no time for sewing, but plenty of time for fun and laughter. Will have Monday to recover (and sew), then back to work (and time budgeting) on Tuesday.

Next post in a few days.

Ellice

Hi everyone,

As you can see I am back from my short holiday, and have begun my next project - a pair of pillowcases for D3. The quilt will be a Christmas present, as I only have 3 days to finish the pillow cases (I will have to pack some sewing in over the next couple of days) I have cut the patches out, now I only need to sew them together.

Didn't have the opportunity to take many photos during my small

break, so there are no photos of that, but I did do a little shopping while in WA. Found a lovely little shop in Midlands, and brought some panels to make 3 rag books, 1 Hoppy the Kangaroo and 2 Paddington Bear panels, for 3 of the daughters (3y, 8m & 6m)

and also a panel (Three little Kittens) from Beatrix Potter's range for D5(17y) [her choice]

I also got a couple of doggy bags of some very bright, kid material scraps - I think they are gorgeous, and suit the personality of miss3 perfectly, now I just need to find where I can get some larger pieces of the more interesting pieces.

First project finished at last :)

Have finally finished Claire's quilt, just in time to go away for a holiday. This is the first major project completed, now I can get on with finishing a few minor projects, and starting the next major project. Minor projects will include assorted toys for younger g'children, and a kindy bag for miss 3, and a pretty bag for miss 7. Also will start work on the quilt and pillow case set for miss T. I am hoping to have these completed for birthdays and Christmas. Of course all the birthdays are close to Christmas, so I should have plenty of time to do these - that is the plan anyway, but every one knows that the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray :)))

Here is the photo of Claire's finished quilt, very assymetrical, but I like the effect. Miss 7 is helping with the display