PRETTY STUFF and more

I have called this post Pretty stuff, which relates to the first picture and a possible few later on, although there is an ugly there too, you will spot it when you come to it....

The pretty is for this picture of Rebecca, she looks so grown up in that hat, her mum had the day off the other Saturday and they had fun trying some hats on in the shops before going to the cinema. I think the hat really suits her, but why do I keep wanting to say.... 'The rain in Spain' and stuff like that????

My beautiful 13 year old GD.....

Bookmark and ATC from Fay in Israel,

the painted card was done by disabled children, many thanks Fay they are great...

 Cathy in New Zealand sent me this postcard of a sewing machine,

plus the cheeky chicken card which makes me laugh, thanks Cathy...

the little piece of white is peltex, she uses for making the postcards...

 'AUSTRALIA' Postcard from Tessa,

a Canadian living here in Penrith - confused??

hahaha, thanks Tessa it is fabulous of course...

 Bookmark and ATC sent to Sandy in Australia, from me,

it was Free choice theme...

 I did Pictionary type for the Bookmark, can you work it out???

I have entered yet another 'Strip swap' on the PP Forum,

we had to send Katy 14 strips of red fabric, she mixed them all up

and here are mine, I received them Saturday, thanks Katy...

WOO HOO I have done my Hexagons for the Quilt Set swap Pat -

my hand is now swollen like a balloon but I got them done...

Just thought this was pretty, in the garden above the water butt -

which is constantly overflowing due to the weather...

The President clematis has done really well this year

 masses of flowers on it, but I only wanted one...

 We planted, well hubby planted loads of Lilys this year for a change,

I love Lilys but....

 so does this horrible bug - it is eating them, we go out at regular intervals

and find these little monsters and kill them DEAD, apparently this year

they are rife throughout the country, maybe cos of the rain????

FMQ CHALLENGE with SEWCALGAL -

The tutor for July is

Angela Walters -TILES is the challenge...

you may remember I had done this as the challenge, then I was reminded by one

of the ladies on the Facebook page for this  - Cathy - that I was going to do my samples for this challenge each month of trees....

...so here is my tree for the July Challenge

I have actually cheated cos the tree is not 'tiled' the background is...

I chose NOT to quilt this one for some reason -

this is the back..

Following is a review of the trees done so far...

January with Frances Moore...

February with Diane Gaudynski...

March with Ann Fahl...

April with Don Linn...

May with Leah Day...

June with Cindy Needham...

Hmm looking at some of these I think I may do some over again...

Thanks for looking....



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HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY

Good grief where did those 13 years go?

Dress it up then...

 Getting better...

 AHA...

 ????

 Watch the face....

 I can see you...

 Is it gonna get me???

 It is....

Happy Birthday Rebecca

13 on 12th May

lol Nana

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POSTCARDS FINISHED and MORE

I cannot stop making these Postcards, I blame my friend Di who taught me how to make them......

Gingko Postcards done with Sparkle threads

 

 trying to show you the sparkle....

 more sparkle...

 Dragonfly Postcards with added Crystals...

 

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The following are showing the back of my FMQ challenge for April,

a lady on Facebook thought they were done with Applique,

it is just thread....

 close up for you to see, just thread....

 closer still...

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On Saturday, Rebecca and I went to the Shoe Museum and got our hands

Hennaed, this is Rebecca's...very pretty...

 this is mine, what a mess, it does look kind of OK

but I have old wrinkly hands now, should have had it done on

the back of my hand, that would have been better...

next time..

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RECYCLED DENIM

Well as I missed the competition deadline on the PP Forum, I am putting pictures here of the bag I made from the jeans Annette let me have to cut up. I am really pleased with the result, it is only a bog standard tote but I managed to use quite a lot of the original bits off the jeans, as you will see...

Front of the bag - I used most of the long leg pieces from the jeans for the main body of the bag, inserting a pretty polycotton fabric I had between the strips for a touch of colour, I quilted feathers all over the denim to stop it stretching and give it a bit of strength as these were well worn jeans....

close up,

the loop is from the back of the jeans waistband,

it is there for a reason...

voila...this is how the bag closes, the long tag going through the loop was inside the waistband of the jeans, it says BOOTCUT, I thought it was fun so used it, I first had to 'touch up' the embroidery as it had frayed a fair bit through many washes I guess...

You may be able to make out they are from NEXT,

the size too!!!

Just had to put one of my special labels on,

cheers Liz...

back view...

I sewed a pocket inside,

one of the rear pockets,

I have done it in such a way that is actually a double pocket...

tada.

Thank you Katy for coming up with the great idea.

Thank you Annette for the jeans.

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I forgot to put in the previous post that Ros had sent Rebecca these seeds, she can't wait to sow them Ros, she loves strawberries, so does her mum

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