Friday 15 March 2024

Flower Wreath Quilt

Hello again dear readers and welcome to my blog........today we have a new quilt to share with you

.........it's a new flower wreath quilt with delicate colours and lots of quilting to create texture......(the pattern is in my etsy shop link in sidebar)........

..........the wreaths are made from simple appliqué and can be stitched by hand or by machine if you prefer.....
.........each wreath block is surrounded by striped sashing and pink cornerstones......the fabrics are sweet liberty by moda, tilda stripes, and kona cotton solid in white.......the quilting was done in two ways....first it was longarm machine quilted with a berry and leaf pattern by debbie at scrapbox quilting and then it was hand quilted round the wreaths and butterflies by me.......i love the squishy vintage style of this quilt.....
.........more flowery quilts here with the flower pots quilt on the back of the chair.......
........and a stack of scrappy floral quilts........
...........some of my mother's day flowers from the weekend.......i'm such a lucky mother......
.........a sweet hydrangea for my cottage garden......and a beautiful bouquet of cherry pink tulips....
.............this week there was a very high tide on our bit of coastline so we went to watch the waves crashing....
..........it was sunny and blue and there were flocks of seabirds as well as single large white gulls......so beautiful and timeless......the high tide meant the water was lapping over onto the promenade.....(we had our boots on fortunately).......
..........on the walk back i snapped these beautiful daffodils giving the roadside a bright splash of colour...

 .....thanks for calling by dear readers..........thanks so much for your kind comments and wishing you a wonderful week with happy crafty times...........take care lovelies ............peace and love.......back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Friday 8 March 2024

Spring Sewing

Hello again dear readers......hope march has started well for you.......here are some projects for spring time sewing.......beginning with lettuce the sugar bunny and a bunch of fabric carrots........on a stack of flowery quilts.......(patterns in this post are in my etsy shop link in sidebar)........
..........then we have a tiny tote bag made from pretty patchwork scraps.......
.........these fabrics are mainly japanese florals with a little bit of tilda.........yo yos and buttons for extra embellishment on this one......
...........pretty japanese fabric lining.............
..........these little bags make sweet gifts, or can be sewn to enclose a gift......they are also good for easter egg collecting......
............below is the candy hearts cushion made in soft pinks for valentine's day.......
.........and here is another version made with new tilda jubilee fabrics........
..........i loved hand quilting this in echo quilting around the hearts......
...........the maileg goose is here for spring...........below are the two new tilda jubilee cushions 
........first little auricula flowering for this spring.......in the background is my cottage garden quilt......
...........and some little fabric eggs made with pretty belle and boo fabrics and older lecien fabric which i still love......lots of signs of spring here but a very chilly east wind blowing today.........
...........thank you for dropping by to my blog today lovely readers..........thank you for your sweet comments which are so appreciated...........wishing you a happy sunny week ahead with plenty of crafty inspirations..............take care lovelies............peace and love............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 

Friday 1 March 2024

Happy March

Happy 1st march and happy st david's day too...........here are some bright and fresh little daffodils to celebrate, picked from our garden........
..........and as we near spring more every day here is a little spring bunny...clover is her name....
......with a little postage stamp doll quilt to snuggle under......
....clover is made from my sugar bunny pattern which is in my etsy shop link in sidebar, and you can find the postage stamp doll quilt, fabric carrots and radish seed packet patterns there too.......
............lots of red and blue spotted fabrics with some low volumes for contrast for this little quilt....
...........finished off with simple hand quilting...........
............flowers picked from the garden........some grown in pots, like the bright primroses and bellis daisies, and some poking up from the wintery ground, like the tete a tete daffodils, the grape hyacinths and the lovely pink hellebore..........
...........more bulbs peeking through in pots on my rustic garden table made by hubby..........
.........not sure what some of these are as the gales blew away some of the labels.....apart from the crocus obvs ;) ......
.............some beautiful catkins on the tree below .........such a lovely sign of spring especially with blue sky behind them.........
..........still very cold though so we need our cosy quilts just like clover does..........

 .....wishing you a happy month of march and a happy week ahead dear readers and thank you for dropping by to see me here......and for your kind comments too.........take care lovelies..........love and peace.......back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Friday 23 February 2024

Tilda Jubilee Fabrics

Hello again dear readers......we have just returned from a lovely spring walk, enjoying fresh air and daffodils and even early blossom..... and now i want to show you what i've been sewing with these exciting new fabrics.....
........the tilda jubilee fabrics are designed to celebrate 25 years of tilda.....amazing.....and i've certainly sewn with a lot of the fabric collections over the years.....the cushion shown here is my circus cushion which i originally made years ago in the original paler circus fabrics.......i loved making the new version in the brighter colours.....
........and now i've written the pattern for it and you can find it in my etsy shop link in sidebar.....
.........the jellyroll looked so pretty i didn't really want to unfurl it but i just had to :)......
.............because i wanted to use it for a new version of my cottage garden quilt shown below.....
...........i'm also using some fat quarters and kona cotton solid......
...........and some of the accompanying blenders are just right to use for the flowers.......
...........here's a lovely little stack of blenders.......such a lot of fabric fun going on in my sewing room....
..........below is a close up of my original cottage garden quilt made from scrappy tilda fabrics.....the pattern for this is available as a pdf in my etsy shop link in sidebar as before........
.........and here are some real flowers.......some kind friends who came to dinner brought us a tray of colourful primroses this week.......
...........gorgeous bright little flowers filling our pots with spring...........
.............thank you for dropping by dear blog friends and for your kind comments and messages.......wishing you a happy week ahead with flowers, sunshine and plenty of creative inspiration...............love and peace.....back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

Friday 16 February 2024

Favourite Four Patch

Hello again dear readers........here is a new version of my favourite four patch quilt......
.........this one is made with red and white mainly moda fabrics and kona cotton solid in white.........
..........lots of red and white patchwork hanging up here this week as hubby and i celebrated valentine's day......we had an outing to an art exhibition to mark the day :)
........the original favourite four patch quilt i made was hand quilted, so i decided to do the same with this one too........
..........the pattern for the favourite four patch quilt on point (and also a pattern for an easy four patch as well) are both available in my etsy shop link in sidebar.......
..........a tiny taster of red and white patchwork in this postage stamp pincushion........
.........this week i've been sewing with exciting new fabrics from tilda..........to celebrate 25 years of tilda here is the new jubilee collection.........lots more to come soon.......
............another outing this week with my dear valentine was to our favourite botanical gardens at ness.........
..........love the bright camellias with their shiny green leaves, and the blue sky.......
..........the snowdrop walk...........so many growing under the trees......more and more each year we visit.........
............and some cheery little crocus........always so bright and perky on february days......
..........thank you for dropping by dear blog friends and for the kind comments you leave me..........wishing you a happy creative week ahead............take care lovelies.................back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx