My poor blog, I feel like I haven't visited it, much less posted in
ages! The problem, if you'd call it that, has been that I've been
working on gifts and when you work on gifts, you can only post about
them so much because you don't want the receiver to know they are for
them before they get them!
So, I just finished three different quilts this week. Hooray! I will hopefully get them wrapped and gifted in the next few days and then I can show them properly!
In the meantime, I finally got to make some bunting! I was assured it was the "easiest thing in the world" (Roisin from The Quilt Shops favourite line) but I'm always afraid of cutting up fabric for something I've never made before! So Roisin made me delve in one day in the shop. She needed some bunting to advertise the letters that can be bought for personalised projects and I learned that yes, it is rather easy. Now I'm addicted!
So, I just finished three different quilts this week. Hooray! I will hopefully get them wrapped and gifted in the next few days and then I can show them properly!
In the meantime, I finally got to make some bunting! I was assured it was the "easiest thing in the world" (Roisin from The Quilt Shops favourite line) but I'm always afraid of cutting up fabric for something I've never made before! So Roisin made me delve in one day in the shop. She needed some bunting to advertise the letters that can be bought for personalised projects and I learned that yes, it is rather easy. Now I'm addicted!
So I stocked up on more bias binding. I love to make my own for quilts but at 80c per yard, this stuff is brilliant. My favourite is the candy stripe red, you can't see it in the picture above but it looks fab with the navy flags!
Then, after making a set of wedding bunting in the shop, I wondered why I wasn't making any for my own house? Then my 10 year old asked could he help me with anything and so I gave him the lovely job of picking out some nice solid colours, some funky robot fabric and I got making! I got my letters cut, of course, at the Quilt Shop and my big boy picked the right letters for the flags and Wow, but my small boys are so happy with their new "flags".
Check out little Levi's proud face........he loves his side because it has a green flag, his favourite colour. I must thank my 10 yr old for reminding me to put green in his name!!
So that's me and my new favourite thing............bunting! The husband wants me to make some now for outside before bbq season ends and who am I to complain when I get to put something pretty swinging from the trees without the men-folk (of which I'm surrounded here) giving out about the girliness?
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