Sweet Encounter

Today I met with a friend for lunch. Lots of us meet with friends I know, but this meeting was extra special for me as I met face to face, for the first time, an online friend. We met through a doll group first then started emailing and eventually phone calls. We both have 4 children around similar ages, we are around the same age, we love crafts and a whole lot of other things in common. Coryn used to live in Melbourne but is now living in Hobart. We met today in Campbell Town, half way point for us both, had lunch and a short stroll around some antique stores until I had to head home to pick up the children. I had the best time. The conversation flowed so easily but the time went soooo quickly. It was decided that we will definitely be meeting again.

And we both had the same idea of giving a gift. Coryn bought me some fabric and A Janelle Wind pattern. The fabric is beautiful and I love the bag pattern. I even like the wrapping paper. I will find a use for that too I am sure.

Thanks for a lovely day Coryn. Looking forward to the next one.

Bye for now

Jules

Taking a different path

Life has been busy for me lately but it has not included a whole lot of craft at all. I sewed these bibs a couple of weeks ago and the little slippers I made on the weekend. The pattern for the slippers can be found at www.stardustshoes.blogspot.com It is a free pattern. Thank you Joanna Armour . There have been a number of babies either born or still to arrive, around me lately so I have been making bibs, burp cloths and now slippers to give as gifts. The two bibs here are for Tommy Turtle, my favourite baby. The slippers are for a little girl yet to arrive.



This is a quilt in the making for the little girl yet to arrive, I have until the end of June to finish it.

And I thought I would throw this in. Of course another lovely cake made by Steven. He made it for a female friend at school. She was very impressed. He is making a hephalump next for another friend at school. I will post a pic when the time comes.

Well thats it from me for a while again I should imagine.

Jules

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