The Joy of Craft....

Being crafty, creative or whatever you want to call it has many pluses.

You can made great things, meet great people, learn lots of stuff and

have a lot of fun and laughs along the way.

Recently I was reminded of these in a number of ways.

I had the pleasure of meeting a gorgeous lady at our local crafty get together SAY.

We shared many interests and had lots of fun.

She had to move interstate and a few of us girls decided to create something special

to commerate her time with us.

It was decided to do a quilt in her favourite colours.

Now as you may know Im not a quilter and was a little concerned about what I could contribute.

With the help of these clever friends we all made this lovely quilt.

Shes looking keen

 Now shes excited...

And happy!!!!

We all had a great time making it and thought about you alot in the process- wishing you could join us without spoiling the surprise.

Thanks to the girls from whom I learnt lots which gave me the courage to make this.

Check out their blogs also to see more of the action.

Great friends, great fun and great sadness,

look forward to catching up at SIT....



I did it....

Well its official.....

I can now say I have MADE A QUILT!!!!

I love quilts but feel like I dont have time to get into quilting yet.

 I figure once Moo gets older and isnt as keen on Mum made stuff

 ( I'm hoping she loves it forever but I remember not wanting my mum to make things

and asking for shop bought stuff) then I will have time to get into quilting.

Recently I wanted to make something for a close friends significant birthday and the only thing I could think of was a quilt.

So with the help of some clever friends  I embarked on a quilt.

Here is my finished product!
Im pretty happy with how it turned out
and was tempted to keep it ..
at least to be able to see how much I hopefully improve in years to come.
But.. it was well received and loved by the person for whom it was intended
so I shall just have to enjoy seeing it when I visit.

A big thanks to Mum who finished off the binding as my annoying injury
was not enjoying the hand stitching process.

What have you been up to?
Check out other clever works at our creative spaces..

Knitting, by default...

A little while ago I rediscovered my love of crochet.

So it has nearly all been crochet for portable projects.

Recently I had a mishap playing sport which has resulted in me

not being able to crochet but I can still knit, albeit a little uncomfortably at times.

This lack of freedom to craft is extremely frustrating.... I have a looong list of things I want to finish, make, start or try and being injured and limited in options does not fit the plan!!!

So finding crochet hurt I tried knitting and it is better so needed a project.

Moo (as nearly always) is going to be the lucky receipient of a red mohair cardigan from this cute vintage pattern book.

 Im not loving knitting it up for some reason and nearly gave up on it but have started to find my rhythm and its better than not having anything to do. Hopefully I will get lots done before I resume crochet otherwise it may become a UFO!!

And the quilt you ask???

Well it has been quilted by machine....and I managed to keep it pretty neat on the back!

(Amazing considering my dolls quilt effort).

Last bit of hand quilting to be finished tommorrow,

then bound and off to its new owner on Saturday. ( If all goes to plan).

Who else is joining in at our creative spaces.....

Here's a first...

Well I decided to make something for the upcoming significant birthday of a close friend and decided on a quilt for the couch.

Only problem with that is I'm not a quilter, love them and interested but just not the time as yet.

Once Moo decides its no longer cool to wear things Mums made

I figure I will have the time to get into quilting....I hope!

So with very little idea ( I've made a dolls quilt but that doesn't help me feel like I know what Im doing)

 I decided a jelly roll quilt may be a good place to start.

Well  so far i have joined all my jelly rolls together...Yay!

( Although I suspect thats the easier bit).

Okay it definitely wasnt square but it certainly wasnt as out as this photo makes it look.

( Note to self check you have a decent photo to post!!)

And using my clever embroidery machine a personal note on the backing.

Okay tommorrow I will attempt putting it all together.

Wish me luck as anything could happen from here!!!

Head over to Our Creative Spaces and see what all the clever people are making.

PS. BIG Thank you to Cath who has come over and helped me improve my blog.

Its gradually growing into itself.....!