2019 Wk 38 - cats and quilts

We had Crafty Church today, and a new lady joined us - the very talented Sian: she brought this awesome liberty quilt to show us:  Several of us threatened to run away with it, it really is stunning!

Sharon and I took it up to the mezzanine floor so Sian could get a pic of the whole quilt.  Absolutely no pattern  - just added bits to other bits, and scrappy binding

I didn't get much work done for myself: but I did get a piece of white cotton basted to some while fleece (too boring to photograph!)

But worthy of a photograph - my new house guests: Thor, and underneath him is his sister Luna - gorgeous kitties!!!

Anmd my sewing room . . . I should probably do some tidying up!

Liberty Love

A while ago Jackie gave me a pack of liberty fabrics, and I started to make a bag with them, and then put it aside for a while, well today I got so fed up with my every-day bag that I finished off the liberty bag, and I love it

Big enough to take all my cr@p

with a double pocket on the outside (fairly well camouflaged)

Can you see them now?

And although I doubt if I will reverse it, it is lined with this lovely My Folklore fabric that I adore

And has several internal pockets  as shown by these sheets of paper tucked into them.

Not so obvious, there is also a dog clip on a bit of ribbon stitched into the top seam - I don't feel the need to have a zip on my bags, but I do like to have my purse deep down and clipped to the bag


I received a fab package a few days ago from the lovely Fiona at Celtic Thistle.  She hosted the Holiday Memories mini quilt festival, and although I wasn't one of the winners (gosh they were amazing) I was lucky enough to be sent a pack of Aurifil threads in lovely summery sorbet colours, thank you Fiona

Liberty Love

A while ago Jackie gave me a pack of yummy Liberty fabrics

And that gave me the excuse to buy some more

(I'm sure you understand)
Well these pieces were 6 inches by roughly 10 inches. I had a lovely time chopping them into 6 x 3 pieces

and sewing them back together, and quilting them to a piece of fleece

And then sewing them into a bag shape

It's too late now to continue, so I'm putting it away, and closing down the sewing machine and the computer, but next time I get an urge to do some bag making I'm halfway there :-)

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Shopping Show and Tell

Well I was quite restrained on day 1 at Festival of Quilts, but not quite so retrained on day 2!

I bought this lovely pack of Liberty fabric from the lovely Yvonne at Village Fabrics: I already had one pack (thank you Jackie), and now there is enough for a bigger, um, something.  I also got some more charms for my sewing bracelet, and Jackie got me a replacement for my broken purple thang

I got a few replacement perspex sheets for Jackie's big shot (I felt I should as I've given her loads of fabric to Sizzix for me!) and got some fabric glue from the ladies at Apliquick which is much softer than prittstick.  I also got another thermofax screen: a spool of thread to go with the scissors I bought last time

I have been collecting red and stone linen for a while and have finally decided to make a log cabin, but had a glut of stone rather than red.

 

 So when I saw these I had to get them

But then I saw these too, and somehow they slipped into the shopping basket too, I think I feel a bag coming in these

I popped in to see the lovely ladies at the Button Company (at Eternal Maker - I gather the shop was a bit empty this week!) and got bits for bags as well as buttons and felt

And then I got some more wooden spools just because

 That covered nearly all of my shopping list plus just a few extras.  

The outstanding items were some paper piecing templates: triangles and hexies in both 1¼ and 2 inches, but no one seemed to have them.  I could cope, as I'd found them online from America, but that would include $22 shipping!

Jackie and I had arranged to meet for a final coffee at 4pm - on her way to the meeting place she passed Hannah's Room . . . with an almost hidden stash of EPP templates, so she dragged me back and I got all 4 packs for about half the price of getting them shipped from the states