And now my blog knows my sister is married, andbecause the giftis given, I can safely postthe xmas present I made him - a tractor cushion! He drives a tractor and when we saw the panel fabric in Pumpkin Patch I had to buy it. I did have a temporary loss of memory on how to put in a zip so it's a little dodgy but heseemed quite pleased.
My sister got married in February and having seen my husband's wedding socks sock monkey asked for one made from one of her socks and one of her husband's socks from the big day. It took me a while but they got it for xmas. The challenge was the complete mis-match of socks: a pastel ankle sock and a sports sock. Completely different sizes! I had to trim the tail because the original was way too long and looked ridiculous. But overall quite cute.
Last year's Secret Santa present from work was a little set of tree decorations to make. I finally got round to making them so that they could adorn our festive twigs this year. Very cute.
As a gift to all the members of my department I made quilted decorations. I found the design in American Patchworking and Quilting and bought a fab pack of fat quarters at the Pumpkin Patch in Hailsham with cute snowmen and snowflakes. It took quite a while to got 17 of these done but I'm pretty pleased with them.
This one took FOREVER! But I think it looks pretty cool. It was a birthday present for my sister, who I love dearly. The design came from scrap quilts, a magazine from the editors of easy quilts - it's an American magazine. I wa attracted to the magazine as I have so much fabric, and particularly lots of scraps. I used a fat quaryer my sister bought me (I think for my birhday) as the central feature of each block and then bu ilt it up with a range of scraps. The backing fabric is fantastic, although you can't see it from this pic, it's a pacman design (no pacman thoug, just lots of little ghosties!) I can't remember where I bougt it but you can see it here
This one did take a long time and the hubby got a bit sick of the panels being laid out across the living room floor ...
Didn't do very well with catching up did I? So over the next week or so I aim to try to catch up.
Let's start with tableware! I made this patchwork table runner and placemats a few months ago. Our living room is blues and browns so I wanted something to dress the dining table in the same colours. I think the design came from Sew Hip magazine, but I'm not sure now ...
They wer pretty easy to make and look pretty good. I love the swirly chocolatey brown in there - I think all the fabrics were bought from Pumpkin Patch in Hailsham.
