pint size pinafores plus...

Now that little miss is getting bigger I am loving the opportunity to embrace a bit more dressmaking. Her clothes are smaller than my own so are much easier to unpick when I inevitably stuff something up!!

Here are the latest dresses and skirt I have made using the fabulous, easy to follow patterns from PaintMyQuilt

Positively a shrinking violet isn't she!

I adore this fabric range from Spotlight!

Cheeky monkey!

Fantasy island

Years ago I fell for these lovely fantasy cross stitch patterns and knew someday I would love them in our nursery - even more so since the invention of Harry Potter.

My personal favourite is the dragon; mostly since I know how horrid it was to do ;)

My favourite puggle photo

Just in case you didn't know what a puggle was, here is a super cute one!

Puggle ponders

Here is my own little Puggle choosing fabric for her next dress from Grandjen

Wedding Quilt for Q & M

Last year my friend Q invited me to his wedding in gorgeous Oxford, UK. Unfortunately, being eight and a half months pregnant at the time and in the middle of moving house, we were unable to attend what promised to be the shindig of the year!

To make up for this, rather than purchase something ''materialistic'' from I decided to put some love and attention into a material gift - my first king size quilt.  Quite ambitious I can tell you!

Through my etsy surfing addiction, I was lusting after this Riley Blake layer cake - Isabella.

I didn't quite have enough with the layer cake so I added a few extra pieces from The Quilters Store and planning began.

I created this beautiful disappearing nine patch quilt!  I thought the sandwiching would be by far the most difficult part; this was a two person job being soooo big, but actually it was the quilting.  Although a fairly simple squiggle swoop design, having used a wool batting to keep Q & M warm in the freezing UK winters, sitting under it to quilt it in the heat and humidity of a Queensland summer without aircon was challenging.  Luckily for me, my machine isn't sophisticated enough for quilting so the sweaty job fell to Mum ;)

Only 10 months late with the gifting, I am very pleased with the result and Q's reaction when he opened it!

(Credit to my mother for her quilting)

1st Birthday Quilt for A

I have a bit of a Red Riding Hood thing going on of late. I think it's because people keep telling Puggle "What big eyes you have!"

So after falling in love with all the fabric at the Samford Quilt Show I showed great restraint and only bought A Walk in the Woods by Aneela Hoey for Moda.

There has been much argument with other quilters as to whether these are foxes or wolves.  I reckon they're wolves as it seems to be Red Riding Hood however I concede that they are very foxish wolves.

Using a charm pack and a few extras from the trunk at home, I put together this simple bento box quilt for my friend's daughter's 1st birthday.  It has very simple diagonal quilting and the remainder of the fabrics as binding.  The border is a lovely pink from the Beatrix Potter range.

Here 'tis:

 

'Twas a stupid idea putting blocks in the corners instead of the middle strip like I would normally do as the sandwiching had to be absolutely perfectly straight which of course it never is, hence the odd blue borders.

Still, nice and bright and girly.

Big Brother Quilt for L

With my soon to be niece now sorted, I felt it was important that her soon to be big brother not feel left out.  I purchased some masculine coloured, kid themed fabrics from Spotlight.

As he is a connoisseur of all things mechanical, I scoured all my local quilting supply stores for an appropriate fabric.  Truck! they had nothing suitable!  On to eBay and thankfully I found this:

After some seriously bad cutting, I needed to hodgepodge together a couple of patches.

And voile! A quilt for L.