This site sound like it is going to be a lot of fun. Go and visit and enter the competition pictured above. Good Luck

Jules

100th Post

WOW!!! This is my 100th Post..............YAY It has taken me a very long time to get here but I made it. As a little thank you to you all for your lovely comments over the last 99 posts, I am offering my 'Odd Sock' bag pattern for free. It is not written as a professional would write it though so if you have trouble understanding it then feel free to email me questions. I will be only too happy to help you out.

I hope you enjoy it and a big thank you to Jenny of ELEFANTZ for the idea, encouragement and help to put my little pattern out there.

Just click on the link below and hopefully it will lead you to the pattern.

Tea Towel

Jules

tea towels and dress

Jenny of Elefantz, has a tea towel challenge for January. All you have to do is make something out of a tea towel. It is a lot of fun. There are so many pretty tea towels now days too.


I chose a tea towel, added some applique and floss.............

and made an Odd Sock bag....................

To hang in my laundry......................
Now all those odd socks have a home to wait in for their mate to return. With 12 feet in this house, there are always socks going missing............lol

I also made little one a shirred dress. So easy and fun to make thanks to Kuky Ideas.

I have two young men, young enough to be my kids I am sure, putting my dishwasher back in, after an unfortunate accident, and I am not sure they know what they are doing. I had better go and supervise I feel.

Bye for now

Jules

New Sewing Machines

Yesterday I had my two beautiful Nieces come over to learn how to use their New Sewing Machines. They were so excited and by the end of their first lesson they were dreaming of sewing all sorts of things.

This is Jac, Tommy's Mummy, learning to thread her new machine. Jac is married to my nephew Luke.


This is Bonnie pondering...............Now what do I do next?????..........................Bonnie is going to be married to my nephew Michael next year. WOOHOO!!!!

Jac is proud of her sewing and mastering the dreaded button hole stitch........................ Well done Jac.

And here is Bonnie showing off her button fastened by her button hole stitch..........Yay. Good on you Bon Bon..................See Michael.......she can sew.

We had a great laugh. I even refreshed my own memory with a few pointers I had forgotten about. Well done girls. I cant wait until the next lesson. We may even make something. I think the girls will be spending a bit of time at spotlight......................hehehehe

Now onto Stevens things.........................A swarm of Bees.......................Aren't they so cute. Clever boy.

Just a couple of pics

Well here we are in 2010. Happy New Year to all of you. Here are just a couple of pics of things I have been doing. Not much really.



We demolished our old kitchen.....................................


We have a new one now but it is not quite finished so you will have to wait for the finished pics.




I made an elf suit for Charlie out of an old singlet top, t-shirt and scrap felt. It was for her dancing groups end of year party. I even made the shoes.................................






We had a son turn 18 and of course Steven made the cake....................................







I made Tommy the turtle from an old bedspread and left over fleece,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,








And more recently I finally put my 'quilters blessings' stitcheries into a quilt top............................

Now I just have to finish it and send it away for quilting. I had to open a jelly roll which was very difficult to do you know.................so sad. The fabric is 'Natures Chorus'. I thought I had a crisis when I couldn't fit the strips the way I wanted but I just improvised and I love how it is turning out. I never measure anything I just sew then cut so sometimes I have to do strange things that would make a real quilter cringe..........hehehe But that's me........................



Bye for now

Jules

OK! OK!

Well I won't go then................lol How lovely it was to hear that you don't want me to go. Well I cant promise a regular blog but I will try for a monthly one.

Firstly I have been so busy helping out at the High school and Primary school. The little ones have been doing 4 weeks on craft. The teacher wanted to show them some 'Olden day' crafts. Now we think back to the horse and cart days but these poor little ones think 'olden days' is when their parents were children...................lol.... We soon put them straight. We went on an excursion to an olden day school farm. The children got dressed up in prairie clothes and had to attend class with Mr Grumpy, who acted out the old time school class routine. They had a lot of fun as well as learning how different it was back then.

I have been doing a church doll with them, they made clay marbles, a wooden plane, french knitting and finger knitting. It has been so much fun. They are showing their crafts in assembly on Friday.

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Little one needed a new ballet wrap so after much hunting for a new one, unsuccessfully, I scanned her old one and made a new pattern from that...............I have never done anything so bizzare before but look how it turned out. It cost me $4.49. I am so pleased with it and so is little one, as it is her 'dance school' colours.

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Steven, little one and I have also been making 'pin toppers'. They are so much fun. It does pay to read the label though before you buy the sculpey. I thought I was buying white but it was actually transparent. That is why some look a bit strange. But they came out ok.

Stevie's toadstool and cup cake

Little Ones pin toppers................she so clever.

done with transparent even though it looked white to begin with.....silly me. I was making a cupcake but it turned into an icecream.

Teapot and cup done with real white.....hehehe

The cakes are done with the transparent. It starts off white though.

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And lastly pop over to Claire's Craft room as I made her sewing machine apron which was in this months Handmade mag. Clare has a pic of it on her blog along with some others. The pattern was so clear to understand and was just what I was looking for. She does some beautiful work.

Any way thats it my friends.

Until next time........Take care

Jules

leaving

This is a pic of the 'eyespy' quilt I made for my great nephew. It was the first time I had ever done machine quilting and I didn't do an awful job. It isn't brilliant, but it's not awful. I like it.

This is probably going to be my last post also as I really don't have anything to blog about. I enjoy reading all yr blogs but I don't have time to do my own and found that I don't do anything of interest for blogging anyway. I have enjoyed reading yr comments and I thank you all for visiting.

Jules