Made with LOVE

Both fabric and feeling

First, two large floor pillow covers (28 x 28 inch) for my sister.

Made with Amy Butlers new fabric line LOVE

Second, two dolls for my nieces using a pattern from wee wonderful.

I’ve named them Marie and Laura after my own two girls,

I think my nieces will find it amusing that the dolls are named after their cousins.

And finally third, yet another weekend traveller bag for my mother in law, again using Denyse Schmidts County Fair fabric. She wished for one when she had seen the one I made for myself.

I hope your christmas will also be filled with LOVE

(both fabric and feeling)

Merry Christmas

Isa

I'll huff and I'll puff...

…And I’ll stuff.
Or the story of how my dinner plate became Billy the Bat.

It started when I wanted to make an owl. I’m not very good at freehand drawing and figured I had to have some sort of shape I could trace around.


My dinner plates fitted just perfect.


Afterwards followed a series of testing and changing of the original shape.
But nothing seemed to work just right

Then the last testing spawned a new idea.

And after another testing, Billy the Bat was born.

I think he is very cute, the next one is gonna have a bit smaller wings, and embroidered teeth instead of felt ones.

But all in all I’m quite pleased with my first pattern development.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Bugshots

This is Dottie Daisy, and she is just the cutest little girl bug.

Christy from sweet tidings sent her to me as part of our bug swap.

This is Caramella. She is afraid of flying so I had to make her a little friend that could hold her hands, when she was sent all the way to the Philippines. I hope you like them Christy.

And because I had so much fun using Rebecca’s bug pattern,

I just had to make another little fellow.

Speaking of Rebecca from Blinking Flights, she is having a Pay It Forward thing going on at her Etsy shop where if you are lucky you can get one of her softies for 50 cent.

I was the lucky buyer yesterday, and I really look forward to be adding Dot to our family.

Take care

Isa

sunday stash # 10 Australian inspiration

This week I’ve wanted to show and recommend two new acquisitions.
They are all written by some extremely talented ladies from down under.

One of the first quilting books I ever bought was “Material obsession” by Kathy Doughty and Sara Fielke. And they are truly some of the most innovating and inspiring quilters out there.

So of course I had to get their new book and it’s just as great and beautiful as the first.

The other book is Melanie Hurlston’s “Kaleidoscope”. Ever since I made the Peanut elephant softie I’ve fallen in love with the patterns from “Melly and me”. And if you are into making softies there are some really cute ones in this book, the Koala bears somehow slipped their way in the basket, but you can’t really stay mad at them for doing so when they are being so cute

I hope you had a great weekend
Isa