Craft Blog

I’m crazy happy about finishing this little beauty up over the weekend. I ended up taking the time to hand sew the binding and it was very much worth the effort, it’s far more precise than I could have ever managed on my machine and some hand sewing in front of some movies (Welcome To [...]

I spent the majority of yesterday standing at the kitchen counter sewing whilst occasionally playing referee between the boys and letting them watch more movies than I should probably admit to. I have no idea what possessed me to get started on a quilt on a day where my eldest wasn’t in preschool, but, lets [...]

We have a rental inspection tomorrow, so of course when the kids went down for their nap I got stuck into making the kitchen spotless and making my home sparkle so we don’t get booted out. Not a chance! All my good intentions of cleaning went out the window and instead I sat down on [...]

A project I started today, thinking it would only take me one nap to get done, already put about two hours into it and it’s nowhere near resembling what I eventually hope it to be. There is sewing, gluing and a LOT more colouring to be done before it even nears completion, but the bright [...]

A couple of days ago I discovered the joys of paper piecing, it’s something I’d seen before but I’d written it off as being too much work and too time intensive, allow me now to take that all back! I made up Sonja Callaghan’s Gnomlette within half an hour and the results are, if I [...]

ALLITERATION FTW!!! Continuing the Halloween specials, I give you a super cute trick or treating bag, guaranteed to last from year to year no matter what outfit you’re pairing it with I would like to stand up in my own defence before I get into this one, yes, I quilt, but I am a crazy/scrap [...]

Helen has asked me to spread the word about her new flickr group, Australian Scrap Quilters. She is in the process of organising a swap for people who are interested in making a scrap quilt without spending four years collecting up co-ordinating fabrics. You send off a collection of various 6.5inch squares of 100% cotton [...]

I love the thought of surrounding myself in handmade items, preferably that I’ve made myself, and to me nothing seems better than sleeping underneath something that I’ve spent months creating, which is what turned me on to quilting about a year ago. Unfortunately I didn’t think this plan through very well, I’m not a very [...]