Fat Quarter Giveaway

Have you visited Make2Sell Australia yet? Make2Sell is an Australian online marketplace for buying and selling handmade wares, fine art & creative works and up-cycled goods, all made in Australia.

Head over to the Make2Sell blog for your chance to win a fat quarter pack featuring fabrics from my Fancy Flight range.  While you are there, why not have a look around the site and check out the creative products available to purchase.

Projects to keep Organised

It's been over a month since my last post (slack), so I thought I had better get on here and write something.  I never was a great pen pal, but I am trying to improve on my communication!

So whats new?  I have been working on a few new projects (patterns will be available on my website soon).  

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 SCRAP SACKS

I have been looking around for quite some time now hoping to find an economical but stylish way to store my fabric scraps.  I have even scoured the discount stores where I have checked out boxes, tubs, bins and baskets, but nothing has taken my fancy.  So I decided to make my own.  The top picture is a basic square bin made from 7.5" squares and wadding.  The other was made from many strips of scraps which I randomly pleated.  Both Scrap sacks feature fabrics designed by me and were simple and quick to make!  I plan to make many more and keep them near my cutting table so that I can seperate my fabric scraps into various sizes.  This is a useful way to use up scraps as well as store scraps.









STITCHERY PROJECT FOLDER

I am not the most organised person, so I am quite pleased with myself for coming up with this idea!  I usually have bits of fabric, scissors, threads, patterns and needles scattered throughout the house whenever I am working on a hand sewing project (actually on any project).  I have trouble keeping it all together because let's face it, I am messy!  My mum will tell you that for free.  I blame it on creativity, but others may say different.  Anyway how ever we look at it, I never would have thought of making a project organiser if I didn't need organising.  This folder holds up to 12 different coloured embroidery threads and has a place to keep needles as well as a pocket for fabric and scissors.  Turn the page and you will also find a section to keep your favourite magazine in place without losing your page (or you can tuck a pattern into it).  Everything is kept together for a mobile project that you can just grab and go!  I now need to make several more as gifts for my special stitching friends and my Mum will be getting one too.  Maybe she will see that I can be organised...sometimes.

Well that's what I have been making, I would love to here what others have been crafting!

Happy Stitching

Kerryn

 

New Fabric

Well its the new year and many have returned to work today (I have anyway). I have had a great first day back because I was lucky enough to receive my Fancy Bird fabrics which I have been waiting for since before Christmas. Perfect timing for my first day back, yay! I can't wait to get designing my next project, and this is just the boost of inspiration I needed. There are more to this range to follow and I will post more pics sometime soon, so be sure to visit again.

Beach cot quilt

My partners nephew became a father recently to a beautiful boy.  Before he was born I was asked to make a cot quilt with a beach theme.  I used mostly fabric from +Thomas Knauer's "Flock" range as the colours were just right and also gave the quilt a modern look making it perfect for a young dad.  I quilted it myself using an assortment of patterns inspired by +Angela Walters  book "Free-motion Quilting".  It has been a fantastic learning experience and I now have some new skills!

A New Beginning

A new year is almost upon us, and what a year this has been!  2012 has been a year of ill health for so many people within my social circle, including myself.  The year has been very busy and although creativity has been frequently present, I still have not achieved near enough of the goals I had set for myself.  Now the festive season is here and the family celebrations will soon be over leading us all into a new year and a new beginning.  I welcome 2013 with loads of positivity, because life is too short to dwell on the crazy year that has been.  2013 will be a year of achievement, a year of sharing and a year of living a happier, better life (not to mention a new blog).  So here's to NEW BEGINNINGS and may you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy start to 2013.

Kerryn x