Quilted Items For Sale

As mentioned earlier, I have just bought a quilting machine and I am learning how to use it.
So instead of wasting fabric by sewing samples, I am sewing panels and also making up small quilts to practice on.
As I will be making quite a few of these, I have decided to make the binding and offer the QUILTED panel plus the binding for sale.

So here I go: 

ALL QUILTS & SET OF 9 PLACE MATS ARE 

 $12 each PLUS $8 postage

(WITHIN AUSTRALIA).. if overseas, please contact me for postage rate.

9 QUILTED Christmas PLACEMATS
with PLENTY of Binding

Size of each placemat: 28 x 41cm (11" x 16")
Stitch pattern: Holly & Berries

  

Must admit I have made a boo boo on 2 of the placemats..
the BACKING was not stretched tight enough & there is a crease in the fabric.. not really noticeable, but I have to be honest..
after all I am still PRACTICING!

 

QUILTED COT PANEL No 1 - no mistakes made!
with PLENTY of Binding
Writing on panel says:
baby's furry fluffy
floppy first friends
Size: 70 x 112cm (27.5" x 44")

 

Stitch pattern: Tumbling Teddies

(2nd photo shows back & pattern)

 

QUILTED COT PANEL No 2 - no mistakes made!
with PLENTY of Binding
Winnie the Pooh & Friends
PURE WOOL WADDING 

Size: 57 x 114cm (22" x 45")

  Stitch pattern: Circles (2nd photo shows back & pattern)

 

QUILTED COT PANEL No 3 - no mistakes made!
with PLENTY of Binding
 Size: 86 x 112cm (34" x 44")

Stitch pattern: Bunnies & Hearts
(2nd photo shows back & pattern)

 

QUILTED COT PANEL No 4 - no mistakes made!
with PLENTY of Binding
Size: 86 x 112cm (34" x 44")

 

Stitch pattern: Circles

(2nd photo shows back & pattern) 

  

 QUILTED COT PANEL No 5 - No Mistakes made!
with PLENTY of Binding
Size: 65 x 112cm (25.5" x 44")

 

Stitch pattern:Flowers & Hearts  

(2nd photo shows back & pattern) 

 

Would LOVE to sell these... and more to come.
Please email me or leave a comment if you want to purchase any.

Until next post...

Jewells

 

Learning the Gammill

 

My sewing room has been invaded by a HUGE machine!  My other half helped installed the new Gammill, while Mum and I stayed out of the way.

 and here I am, moving the head to mark out the size of the quilt, then press a button, stand back and watch it do its magic!

OH I LOVE MY NEW TOY!!!

Until next post..
Jewells

My GAMMILL machine here tomorrow!

 

Just got a phone call today to say that my Gammill Quilting machine will be here and installed tomorrow with lessons on Saturday.

Who hoo... can't wait!

Until next post

Jewells

Two Flintstone quilts for the price of one!

 

Now that Mum is living here, I am desperate for more cupboard space!
So.......
Remember a couple of months back I was offering to sell these quilts for $200 each?
Well now they are $100 each, plus $25 postage (within Australia) for BOTH quilts!
So for $225 you will have 2 BRAND NEW quilts!

They are "The Flintstones". 

 

I have 2 Flintstones Quilts  - a "Green" and a "Yellow" version.

 

The backs are different.

 

They are BOTH the same size of
58" x 70" (147cm x 178cm).

Both quilts were made with pre-washed 100% cotton fabric
and both quilted by a professional quilter (not me!).

Overseas buyers please email me for a quote on postage to your country!
  They can be bought as a pair or separately.

Until next post...
Jewells

Bill & Ben the Flowerpot Men

 

 I remember, as a kid, watching a show called "Bill & Ben" on TV (the ABC channel)  ... it was only on for about 5 minutes ...

Who remembers it?... they had a friend called "Weeeed" who grew in between them. 

.....now I am talking over 50 years ago!

Anyways... I bought the blue one last week at the Tocal Field Days...just fell in love with it... then my sister gave Mum the yellow one on the weekend for her birthday.

They now sit on the front verandah, near the door... 

...on the other side of the door is:

The welcome Gnomes... they came with Mum when she moved here.

Until next post
Jewells

Practice Quilt No 1

One down others to follow..
This quilt is 60" x 72"   The centre blue coloured squares are tumbling Paddington Bears, which is a left over piece from a quilt I made my Grand Son a couple of years ago.

As the time is drawing close for the delivery of my Gammill Quilting Machine, I thought I would make some quilts to practice on.

I am not a personal who practices on scrap material, as I feel it is a waste of time & fabric.  So I have decided to make some quilts from my stash and be all ready to practice, practice, practice.

Being on actual quilts, it will make me be more careful ALL the time.

Until next post..
Jewells

Mum now moved in with us

Well the HUGE move has taken place.  I have been at my old "home" for the past 2 weeks packing up all my Mum's things and moved her safely into my partner's & my home, 5 hours away.

We will NEVER have to buy another cake of soap, or look for a plastic bag for as long as we live.  Mum had soap in every nook & cranny (sure smells nicer than moth balls!) and she hoarded plastic bags because it was mentioned a few years ago that they were no longer going to be produced. (I wonder if that was a scare campaign as they are still mass produced!).

My Mum and Dad built the home when they got married in 1950.  They lived in what is now the garage while they built the house.  Dad was a builder, so that saved them lots of money.  The foundations where hand made mud bricks.

I never thought Mum would sell up and leave her home, let alone her home town, but since Dad passed away 3 years ago and my sister & I no longer living near her, she made the decision late last year after she became ill and I took time off work to be with her.

However, it was me who was crying when I locked the house up for the last time, as Mum said she no longer saw it as home after she made the decision, and especially when all the rooms were empty, she said it didn't feel like home anymore.

The above photo is of Mum and I when friends took her out for lunch to say good bye.

Now we are slowly finding room for all her things in our home.  Everything is going into place so far... can't say the same when we try to add her craft items into my already crammed full sewing room.

Now to get some meat onto Mum's bones, as she is so thin and fragile.  She use to be bigger than me!

Until next post..

Jewells