JUBBLY STUFF

An assortment of items for you to view this evening. I have been clicking away with my little camera as I am trying to catch up on this here Blog of mine. You just may have seen some of the stuff before, I am way too lazy to go and check!!!! My feeling is it is always worth a second look.....hee hee

Starting with a fabulous Fabric Postcard-theme-BUD-- from my lovely friend Maggi,

isn't this just gorgeous, when you touch the bud it is like wax,

I have no idea how Maggi did this but oh I want to learn this technique,

thank you Maggi, you are an inspiration to me...

and just look what she sent me with the Postcard, I am so spoilt by lovely people...

 

I sent one of my fabric Postcards to Diane, and look, another super gift, a pot holder, Diane informs me it has THINSULATE inside so it will be fine for hot stuff,

thank you Diane, I love it...

Bat buttons, a gift from another lovely lady and I am sorry to say

I can't remember who it was right now, how bad is that...:-(

The lovely Tonya sent me these many moons ago, I keep getting them out and looking at them, their day for use will come...

Margaret in France sent me these as a surprise gift, more bat buttons but these are so like me - Vampire Bats, how did you guess Margaret??? Thank you so much...

Another gift from - argh must find out...

OOOO Just look at these beauties - Janice made these for me, I asked her to make them bigger than normal to try to contain my horrid swollen feet, and she has come up trumps, she has also made the top nice and loose for me as I cannot bear anything tight round my legs, these are sooo soft,  thank you so much Janice, these are perfect for me.  She takes orders you know, I will find her link for you...

http://craftlady-searchfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/

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This is a fabric Postcard I made for a swap on PP Forum the theme was -- AGE --

this is depicting a leaf's three stages of it's life, on the tree, falling off the tree and as a skeleton leaf...

ATC Swap same Forum - Theme 'Pictionary'

can you guess what the word is???

Bookmark Swap same again -

this is causing havoc on the forum as no-one can guess what it is,

can you???

Fabric Postcard - Theme RUSSIA -

do you get it???

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I had got way behind with my journals which we decided to do on the 6th of each month, well the other night I thought, why am I trying to be clever with these, they are after all just a reminder for me of what I was doing on that day of each month, SO I decided to K.I.S.S.

this is 6 March 2012...

6 April 2012

6 May 2012

see - KISS - gets the job done every time...

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Found this in a drawer, they were little triangles which had been lopped off from something or other and someone at my group challenged me to use them, well this is what I made with the little divils, you will see they don't meet very well in the corners, but what the heck? Any idea what I can use it for?

Oh my, that drawer threw this at me too, but I appear to be one short - again, any ideas what I can do with these, they are not joined together yet by the way...

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Found this at the top of the wardrobe when I was having a tidy up in there. I made this sooo many years ago it is embarrassing, it never did fit me when it was finished so I have never worn it, and never likely to now. I ought to measure it to see what size it is as I would love to sell it, it would keep someone warm. Anyway this is the back...

the lining...

close up of front...

the front...

just thought this looked a nice pik...

Let me know if you are interested...

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See that flash of RED it is my postie coming up the drive and I could see he was carrying a HUGE parcel, and it was for me....woo hoo...

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Bought from the pound shop for me to use for embellishments...

and again - £1 -

ditto -

ditto -

AHA

Can you guess what this is and what I am going to use it for???

Thanks for looking folks.

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A BIT OF THIS AND A BIT OF THAT

I have been quilting a quilt for a lady at my group and have now finished it, I am hoping she will allow me to put pictures of it on here. Once she has seen it and agreed to that I will put some up, it is a huge quilt and really clever. There is actually already a picture on this blog of it which I took at my group.

Once I had finished that I could get back to my bits and bobs. So here not in any special order are the things I have been playing with of late. The first item is the April FMQ Challenge. I wasn't really keen on doing this as you had to trace/cut/re-trace, make a stencil etc etc it seemed like a real performance to me and I prefer to go at things totally freely, no lines to follow, I find I get on much better that way.  The girls on the Face book page encouraged me to have a go, so, here is my Journal page for this method, although I do have to say I missed out half the stuff we were told to do, I printed a picture off the web which was free copyrighted, then traced it onto the fabric, wadded up my journal page and below is the result...now I have to tell you this is supposed to be two leaves at the bottom, then a jug thing with some stylised flowers in it. When it is on the screen it looks like a scary face - which hubby says is me!! oh hahahaha - anyway this is it....

Front...

 Back...

 and here it is after I had done some thread painting and miniature quilting on it...

 close up of it being pinned out to stretch it -

thread painting does tend to distort your work, so you must block it...

 close up so you hopefully can see the quilting, which yes Di

I have done to death, hahahaha...

 Finished April FMQ Challenge and whatdyaknow?

I love it...fickle me!!!!!

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This is what I spent my Mother's Day voucher on which Annette gave me,

some light and heavy tear away vilene,

a fabric marker pen

and

some of those little magical Genie bobbin washers -

which I have given a good test today and found them to be FANTASTIC,

thank you Annette for my extra gift...

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I also prepped up several Postcards as is my want...

Dragonflies for a change...

 and my beloved Ginkgo Leaves...

These are what I gave the Genie washers a test on,

I used sparkly threads and that weird stuff and thread painted

all these cards in one sitting, machine was hot hot hot,

as soon as they are completely finished I will put piks here..

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Oh pretty sequins lots of them,

bargain, this lot £1 from pound shop,

I have a plan for these....

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OK, What is this then?

I was given this the other day to see if I could make use of it,

I most certainly will, but meantime,

Can you guess what it is yet???????

BACK...

FRONT...

 IN THE MIDDLE...

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 My Canadian friend Tessa bought this quilt from me a while back and has made perfect use of it,

well I should say Abbie has, bless her, doesn't she look like comfy,

thanks for sharing Tessa, love it.

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THEY'RE CHANGING GUARD AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Rebecca went with her mum not with Alice!!  Sorry, couldn't resist it. Yes Annette took Rebecca to London for the day as promised way way back, she - Rebecca - wanted to see Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. It is a Kate thing with Rebecca, she just loves her, well, who doesn't? The thing is though, what she DIDN'T know was that her mum had bought tickets to GO INSIDE Buckingham Palace and view THAT DRESS and all the other things on display. When Annette told her, she was outside BH gates and she rang me on her mobile and screamed and squealed VERY LOUDLY down it to me that she was GOING INSIDE. My ears are still ringing with that call, she was soooooo excited bless her. If you go over to Annette's Blog you will see the wonderful pictures of their day out, I have 'nicked' a few for here though too cos they are so good.

Rebecca with THOSE tickets...

 Yes, you are going to see THAT DRESS...

 Inside the Palace grounds...

 The rain didn't stop this girl from doing the Tour...

 I had a sudden mad idea to make Rebecca a bag for her trip to London,

I printed pictures of Kate onto fabric then appliqued them to a blue background - which I hoped

was similar to the dress she wore at her engagement, I do my best folks,

this was to be the front...

 a close up of one of the pictures, I really like this one, oh yes

and that tassell I have had for many years and it was just perfect for this bag...

 This is the back of the bag, a picture of the pretty shoes which we didn't get to

see on the day, and her bouquet -

not sure if you can see I quilted vermicelli style with little hearts

mixed in just for Rebecca...

 another close up, I bought the ribbon Union Jack Flags on our market

they worked just right on this, I put a zip on the top for safety for Rebecca in London!!!

 the very pretty bouquet...

Rebecca loved it. 

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Now for something completely different -

More of Rebecca's cross stitch pictures. She is zooming away on these now -

here's Winnie the Pooh...

 a sleepy cat...

 a Royal Carriage - maybe this should have gone on her bag!!!

 Well done Rebecca, great job of all of them.

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Changing tack yet again.

Someone and I cannot remember who, was asking for orphan blocks,

if it was you ??? please get in touch with me as these are what I have found for you.

That is if you would like them.

 Maybe someone out there can tell me who it was please, I would be grateful.

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Something else again..

Now this is a small Quilt I designed for Makower, this is a copy of the original,

I don't know what to do with it???

Any suggestions???

 close up of middle...

So there you have it, an assortment of things to look at today, hope they are of interest to you.

Enjoy...do leave a comment, I love to read what you think.

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