Finally...

I finally got my hands on our camera... my husband had his car broken into last week and they stole our camera. We're renovating a house and my husband has been taking photos of every stage along the way so suddenly we only have one camera and he's had it at the house! I've been so busy and wanting to upload photos but haven't been able to.

I went to the Sydney Craft & Quilt Show and bought a few fabrics... not too many, but some lovely ones. I could have gone crazy though, but I was on a deadline, my Dad was minding Johnny so Mum & I could potter without him. I found some Heather Ross Munki Munki at Patchwork on Central Park and just had to buy a metre... now I just need a daughter to make something for! Then I found a lovely little shop called Be Be Bold and they had a sweet baby cot quilt made with lovely Japanese prints so I bought some of those too! I'd like to re-create the quilt one day... I especially love the bear fabric in the middle with the lines of bears doing various activities - it's so sweet! I ended up buying a metre online from their shop after the quilt show - I might do a quilt with mostly that... not sure yet, but just had to have more! :)

I've finally decided on some fabrics for a quilt for my husband and I - I got the inspiration here. It's just so gorgeous, I've bought all the fabrics and now just need to start. I just love this line of AMH fabric, I know I'm late in falling inlove with it, but I just love it!!! I'll have to pay to have it basted, but I'm not sure whether I should quilt it myself (by hand) or pay someone to machine quilt it. I've never machine quilted so I don't want to start on such a big job! But the Anna Maria Horner fabric is a quite thick and I'm using it back & front so I'm not sure how I'd go hand quilting it?

I've finished my quilt for a friend who's pregnant. Well I have 2 friends who are pregnant so this is a girl quilt if one of them has a girl. I now need to finish the boy one! I'm really happy with this, it was fun to quilt, although I was a bit over it by the end... it's so bright and cheery though. I haven't washed it yet but I wanted to get some photos up.

I've started a stripy quilt, after the last one I need to do some straight line quilting... I've been inspired by all the lovely stripy quilts on flickr. I don't have any photos yet... So I need to quilt that, then quilt another boy quilt I've done the top of, then do our queen size quilt - I am going to be very busy!!! I love it!!!!!

Brodie's bag...

I visited one of my favourite shops in Sydney one day through the week (Material Obsession) and the woman who served me had a gorgeous bag she'd made with some Anna Marie Horner fabric (that I was also buying, but blue). It inspired me to make the same bag (I happened to have the pattern at home but hadn't made it yet) for my good friend Brodie whose birthday was on Monday. Brodie is a friend from my Mother's Group and I honestly could not have gotten through the last 18 months without her. There have been many hard times and she has been so supportive and understanding, I'm eternally grateful! So I have finally finished it... after a few hiccups... I had to wait for some oblong rings to arrive from Melbourne as I wasn't happy with the ones I had and then I wasn't happy with the length of the handle so I made another one! I'm really happy with the finished product. It's very professional. I used template plastic in the base which I haven't done before and the way the pattern has the facing inside makes it very professional I think, thank you Nicole Mallalieu! I used one of my favourite Amy Butler fabrics with interfacing and wadding so it's quite structured but I think with time it will soften and be quite lovely. My photos aren't so professional... it's dark now and I'm being very lazy... I'll probably get some better shots tomorrow in the light. I've also been very busy hand quilting.... I'm almost finished - it's been really fun to quilt because I'm following the patterns on the fabrics so each piece is different. I'm just loving all of Anna Marie Horner's fabrics at the moment too... I know I'm a bit late, but I've bought some great fabrics... I'm not sure what I'll do with them yet, but I just had to get some before they're all gone! I love the drawing room prints... I think I might make myself a bag out of one of them... or maybe both of them?! I just love her designs and colours... they're beautiful!

Hello

Well, this is my first post and I am very excited to finally have my own blog, but a bit nervous about how I will find the time to actually post on it!

I love sewing! I sew clothes, quilts, bags, just about anything really. Mostly I make quilts for friends who have babies.... and other little gifts for them too. I wish I had more time to do it... but my little boy, lovely 17 month old Johnny, keeps me very busy. We would love to add to our family soon too, so I'll probably have even less time.

I have tonnes of finished projects that I'll have to upload but currently have two projects on the run... quilts. This is one of them:

It's for a friend who's pregnant. Well I have 2 friends who are pregnant so I'm making a quilt for a little boy and a girl and hoping that they don't have the same sex! Otherwise I'll have to make another one!

I'm not sure about this quilt. I used this as a pattern http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebitsys/3362905270/ but Sewing Geek's is soooo much nicer... I'm just not sure about my fabric choices in this pattern. A friend gave me a voucher for Prints Charming and I went crazy with their blue range, it's very bright. I'm not sure if it's too crazy bright??

The other quilt is pink but I don't have a photo yet... I will try to post one in the next day or so. It's also Prints Charming fabrics, from my voucher. Thanks so much Trish! :)