It's actually the sound of me ticking off three, yes three projects from my ever increasing to-do list. Yippee!
The one that took the most time was the quilt of course. I am still not entirely convinced quilting is for me, patience is not a virtue I am familiar with and I did start to take huge short cuts towards the end because I was getting sick of it and more importantly badly needed the end product to snuggle under on the couch as the weather took a dive toward icicle status.
But...generally I am pretty happy with it, not bad for a first effort I think! And next time I may take a slightly more sensible approach and work to a pattern or standard quilt size or something.
The finished product -
It ended up being about single quilt size and ultra snuggly mmmmm!
So with that big project out of the way, it was time to focus on a couple of kids/baby presents considering I have two friends who have popped in the last couple of weeks. My first project actually wasn't for the new bubba, but his older sister to go with the gorgeous stuff I bought for the new little man. It's a crayon roll, the pattern had a monkey applique on the front, but I decided to go with an applique of her initial instead.
Applique front with ribbon tie
Inside the roll
Close Up
I was quite happy with this in the end, was relatively easy and quite effective. So with number two ticked off, it was time for number three. One of the guys on the HTC's basketball team has just had a little girl and I wanted to have a go at appliqueing a onesie for her. The HTC plays in a team which has a pork related name (don't ask, trust me!) so he wanted a pig applique on it. I must take a photo of the one I completely stuffed up before this one too, not good at all! Bit anyway I did get there in the end and even tried to embroider the 'oink' on it as well. Not brilliant by any means but hey, I gave it a shot!
He does have an eye but it's hard to see on the background pattern unfortunately.
So that's what I have been up to! I actually have an order to work on now would you believe, someone wants a mini owl and duck so I am going to try to get those done this weekend. Kind of exciting really...my first paid job!
But once that is done I think I am going to hang up my sewing needle for a few weeks, we have had two sessions of our photography course so far and it is fantastic but suddenly there is a heap of homework to do for it, so I think I need to focus my time on that for the next few weeks to make sure I am getting the most out of the course.
