Another Linus Quilt

This was one quilted by Kaye.

Long overdue update

I have been nagged into posting more on this Blog and maybe showing work by the ladies in my little Friday group.

We have been busy doing more Project Linus quilts as well as our various personal embroidery and quilting items.

So I will post a few of our finished items and use the blog as a group record.

Been a busy few months

Quilts for Project Linus - Lighthouses and Owls

Thistle for Travelling books

Felt rabbit - male version of Luna Lupin

Travelling books needle weaving

Peg Bag - red work birds on a washing line

Sample fabric swatch with bullion knots and needle weaving

close up of the Rabbit

Nearly 2017!

It has been a busy few weeks, sewing wise, finishing Xmas gifts, quilting for Linus, doing work for Travelling Books and playing with ideas.

As soon as New Year is over, I will be busy again - always seem to have lots of ideas of things to do!!!

Travelling book

Quilt for Linus

Playing with threads, beads and sequins

Quilted free motion table top mat

Better photos of the Hunters Star Quilt

Been designing a quilt for boys.

 A gift done for a Christmas gift

A quilt - again a gift

  Been designing an overarm sewing tidy

Not updated for ages!

I seem to have been very busy textile wise, but not so much to show for it!

Visited Harrogate Knit and Stitch yesterday and have lots of inspirational ideas floating around in my brain - so I will see which one floats to the surface for my next embroidery! Been to three other shows recently, Duxford Quilt Show - where I spent loads of money, but stocked up on lots of things I was running out of - like wadding and 30m of bondaweb!!!! Also visited the NEC in Birmingham, for the Stitching, Sewing and Hobbycraft exhibition and Crafting Live at Peterborough!

I made a bag, blanket stitched strips of Kaffe Fasset fabric on black canvas with fabric my daughter gave me to play with, already cut into very thin, but uneven strips.

I finished the stumpwork with felted acorn shapes, over embroidered, with threads and added to real acorn cups to fill in the gaps under the snail. Plus added an embroidered mossy stone.

I think it came out well, I have decided I like doing stumpwork - will try and do more!!

 Finished my needle painted hedgehog, on 5" hoop, he came out well and had a cute face.

 The flowers were needle woven and a request for a Travelling Book.

 Hand and machine doodle for another travelling book.

 Knocked up a Hunters Star quilt, the centre using pieces cut on a Accuquilt Go machine at a quilting demo but about to be thrown away - managed to find the same fabric for the sashing and binding.

 More needle weaving.

I mounted and framed a piece I did at a workshop, using a heat puffed plastic type stuff on lutrador that was burnt through with holes, dyed behind with a fabric dye, mounted on darker green cotton and embroidered with feather stitch and hundreds of French knots! It is supposed to look like an old garden gate overgrown with climbers.

Currently working on 3 quilts and a piece of Redwork - so still busy with my needle.