'Tis the Season

Next year Kath, Clare and I are each planning to make a 'Tis the Season quilt. After admiring many recent finishes of this quilt on various blogs, like Nicky's wonderful one, I just couldn't help myself but stitch up a few of the blocks. Over the recent weekend, my little sewing machine got a good work out and this is what I came up with:  

Three are for gifts and Hannah chose the reindeer one for us to keep.  I can't wait to start on the quilt next year - I'm still deciding on my fabrics for it, but you know what, I'm pretty happy with the red and white polka dots!

Crafting from the Weekend

We had a very chilled out weekend around home so there was plenty of time for some sewing and stitching after all the usual Saturday/Sunday jobs were done :)

A new bag for Zoe:


The Little House Needleworks scissor pillow all made up. What a handy accessory to have since I'm forever losing my scissors down the side of the couch or knocking them onto the floor.

Just Nan's Holly Bows in its pretty frame. Far too nice to have out only at Christmas time so for now its sitting on the shelf alongside some of my blue and white china :)

I also made some decent progress on Sarah Street by LHN over the weekend so I'll be back soon with a progress pic.

~Katrina~

21 Fabric Hexagons Later...

My bag is finished :) This was a lot of fun - I had the hexagons made up over a couple of nights, then it was a matter of sewing them all together. There's no pattern for this bag, a friend from work made one and then shared her idea with me. I went for some wooden handles as I didn't quite have enough fabric to make a fabric handle.

My fabric requirements for this bag were: just over 50cm for the backing fabric, then three fat quarters of assorted colours of which I used just over half each. I had to go back to the quilt shop for some more of the blue polka dots so picked up some more fat quarters :

an Amy Bulter print

and this sweet fabric which I thought would be perfect to use on some of my "Pink" stitched pieces for my basket.

I have been stitching too so I'll be back tomorrow with my latest finish, a small Valentine's piece.

See you soon,

~Katrina~