Hot Air Balloons Applique

Hot air balloons have been floating around in  my mind for a while...or maybe just hot air.


Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet. Here's progress so far, from concept to loads of itty bitty pieces I had to stitch on.


I used vliesofix and raw edge applique, free motion stitching for the water...


I love how this is turning out so far. And now to the balloons...

Another clutch

Just because they're such satisfying projects - instant gratification :)
It's made from a William Morris-inspired fat quarter, and the lining a scrap from my mum's stash. That's a strip of velvet along the front, and a shiny brass button I got from my Nanna's no longer needed button stash.


Love, love, love! Definitely more of this on the way

 

And a cheeky little purse for my cash cards, made from felt and a bit of raw-edge applique.

Craft Rescue - impromptu cushions

I've been working on this table runner project by Martha Stewart, but ran out of inspiration, as every time I laid it out, it looked like crap. Blinkin' Martha, don't know how she does it, everything looks so perfect on her website!

So, after much fiddling with it, here's what I've come up with - a funky cushion! I'll sew it onto a plain (maybe linen) backing, and turn it into a 40cm square cushion. Have loads of leaves left, but won't bind those, I'll make another cushion and raw-edge applique them on.


I think I'll leave the tips of the leaves hanging loose off the edge of the cushion


What do you think?

Help me, I'm stumped - Craft fail in the making

Any suggestions how I get this

to look like this (excusing the bad photo quality)

They're supposed to be parasols, but I don't know how to get the spokes to stand out. At the moment it just looks like a bunch of lumpy circles...

Alrighty, here's what I came up with:

I finally found a use for that scallop-style stitch on the machine. If I had the mojo to do it again, I'd change some of the fabrics (like that pale blue blob), and keep the sizes more regular, as the random sizes don't seem to have translated well.

The question now is, what do I do with it?

At long last! Here is the first of Evelyn's projects

 At long last, I have finally got around to posting some of my recent projects!


This project is a block for a Charity Quilt, at my Aunty Heidi's work - Barossa Quilt and Craft Cottage (www.barossaquilt.com.au)


The final quilt is to be auctioned off as a fundraiser for research into breast cancer, a cause which is very close to my family's hearts.


The instructions: to create one block on the white background, using the two pinks provided, and one of my own. The image needed to include a ribbon.


Hopefully, what I created is what they're looking for, and it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb in the finished quilt! Needless to say, it is very "Evelyn". I'm pretty happy with the outcome - just googled a suitable image on the web, and used some fabric from my own stash. Would you believe it used an entire spool of pink thread! I was worried I wouldn't be able to get the 3D effect in the ribbon, but once I did the outline, it really pops out.


(you'll have to bear with me while I work through the teething issues of blogging - like, why are my pictures sideways?)