10 Christmas Bon Bons all in a row

 

10 Christmas bon bons all in a row

10 Christmas bon bons all in a row

Now if one Christmas bon bon should actually be sold

There will be 9 Christmas bon bons all in a row 

 

Yes, I have made more Bon Bons for my stall.

I raided my button box and found festive... 

  

....and cute buttons

 

I also founds some ornate ones too.

 

I finished quilting the two commissioned quilts, so I was able to do some "personal" sewing.

I should have been quilting two quilts that Mum made last week...must do that before I start something else!

10 Christmas bon bons all in a row............. (got you singing it in your head now, haven't I?)

Until next post...

Jewells

Australian Quilt

 
I bought a kit at the Newcastle Craft Show and made it up, as per directions, last week.
 I quilted and bound it today.

From the kit's left overs I made this table runner and I also had enough fabric to make another quilt (cot size) by adding just one fabric from my stash... it is ready to quilt (will photograph it when it is quilted and bound), however, I have 2 commissioned quilts to quilt before I go back to personal sewing.

The kit was marked down from $90 to $72.  It was only meant to make the one quilt, but the pieces where VERY generous.  As I hate waste & storing it for a later project, which would never get done, I decided to make something up straight away, and not have to find room to store the excess fabric.

This kit was certainly VALUE FOR MONEY!

Must get onto the commissioned quilts..

Until next post...
Jewells

Spring has sprung

 

My man certainly has a green thumb...

 

 our garden is in full bloom

 

Just love Spring!

 

so beautiful

 Until next post...
Jewells

Winner & Bon Bon/Thread Catcher/Lolly Holders

 

And the winner is...(drum roll)...   Number 7..

 

...and number 7..was Tracy, from Sunny Corner Farm

Congratulations!

Please send me your snail mail address, Tracy, & I will post your prize off to you.

The other day, a friend of mine was telling me about a 

Bon-Bon - come - Thread Catcher - come - Anything Bag 

she had made with the 60 degree ruler and suggested I should try making one or two... 

so here is what I made this morning...

I thought I would fill them with all sorts of things:

buttons, ribbons, threads & lollies.

 

My favourite one is.... LOLLIES!!!

I think they would look great on the Christmas table filled with wrapped lollies...

oh hang it...why wait till Christmas?... 

fill them with lollies now & have one in every room!

Until next post...

Jewells

Suggestions needed about these BEARS!

 

I just bought a heap of these bears (48 of them!) for "an offer I couldn't refuse!".

I need suggestions on what I can do - craft wise - with them.

They are 6" (15cm) tall and they are all pink fur with different coloured "trim". 

I have 16 of each trim colour.

The dribbling of wax over them (to look like honey) is NOT an option, as I don't like the looks of that.

PLEASE HELP!

Until next post...

Jewells

Mum's Quilt

Mum finished the quilt she was working on this week.

Like my Owl Quilt, it was being made into a single bed size, but it just didn't look right when all the extra borders were added, so we cut it back to just 2 borders, and made it into the size of a knee rug/cot quilt.. 37' x 56".

Here is a close up of the stitch I used.. as there were appliqued dragonflies in the quilt, I used the same stitch as I did on this quilt.

Don't forget to leave a comment here to be in the running for my GIVE AWAY.... closes on 16th September.

Until next post...
Jewells

Quilt & Tea-Towels finished today

I really enjoy making tea-towels... 

they come together easily and I think they look great. 

 All ironed & folded ready to sell.

 

While I was sewing the tea-towels, I had my Owl quilt "quilting" on my Gammill long arm machine.

Originally the Owl quilt was going to be single bed sized, however it just didn't look right, so I cut it back to the appliqued piece and just added the 2 borders and it is now Cot sized at 38" x 47".

I raced outside, in between showers of rain and photographed the quilt.  There was a slight breeze, which made it quite a challenge.  First I photographed it on the side fence...

 

...then I photographed it on my baby "Hills Hoist" which was mentioned back in this post.

Then is started to rain again, so I came inside.

Don't forget my GIVE AWAY found here. 

Answer the question and be in the running for the tea towel & dishcloth shown in that post.

Closing date is the 16th September.

Until next post...

Jewells