Lazy Days skirt sew-along

One Crafty Mumma is hosting the "Lazy Days skirt sew-along" this week, and I thought I would join in.

The Lazy Days skirt pattern comes from the very clever people at oliver and s and it was very quick and easy to make. I was even able to do a bit of stashbusting, using part of a jelly roll and also some yardage. The only purchase I made was for ribbon.

Little Possum has been a willing recipient of my sewing efforts and was happy to road-test the lazy days skirt:

garden play and exploration - Pass!

trampoline-bouncing - Pass!

while I was at it, I made a head band with leftover strips of fabric and elastic. Reversible to match either skirt. "Once you pop, you can't stop"...... and so it is with "headband-mode"... I quickly whipped up a couple of headbands to go with the school summer uniform.

I think I have made some good efforts towards the October challenge here!

challenge progress

It's been a slow couple of months on the finishing side of the crafts around here..... but there has been much activity all the same!

It's that time of year again - Little Possum's birthday! Last year we did the Fairy party and this year's theme is "Fancy Nancy". We made handbag shaped invitations embellished with rhinestones and glitterglue. All of my finishes this month are bound to be party related:

felt flowers glued on to elastic hairbands and felt party bags decorated with ribbon and individualised with fabric paint (fantastic stuff!!)

On the quilting front there has been activity as well. I have been working on my Butterfly Garden blocks - here are block 1 and 2 in progress:

March Finishes

March was a busy month with work, and the urge or energy to blog was not there..... however, the creative drive was, and quilting was done. Here are my March finishes:

Kaffe Fassett's Garden Rainbow quilt is now complete and it makes me feel cheerful just to look at it. This is the first time I have sent a quilt off to be done professionally quilted, and Adri with her long arm quilter did a fantastic job on it. The original pattern recommended quilting in the ditch with crosshatching of the squares, but I think this pattern of big swirls/curls worked beautifully.

The backing fabric was fun to choose..... although it would have been cheaper to get a backing fabric, I thought that something this vibrant on the front deserved something more to complement it even if that backing will be largely unseen..

The other finish was this cushion to go with the I Spy quilt finished last month. I am feeling incredibly guilty for still not organising the Silent Auction I have planned. Of course, as "luck" would have it, the quilt had something spilled on it while sitting around waiting to be auctioned off..... I'll have to see if the little splodge of red comes off before I decide what to do. But..... the pencil rolls will be up for sale/auctioning by the end of this week. Still interested?

After all, the bushfire appeal is still needing funds and the rebuilding will be going on for a long time!

February Finishes (and challenge progress)

Silent Auction/Bushfire Fundraiser pencil rolls

This was a quick finish..... Little Possum decorated this tote in pre-school, and it was never

used as a library bag because the sentimental mother here wanted to preserve LP's cute little handprints for posterity. It sat on a shelf in LP's closet until the mental lightbulb went off, and bag became cushion simply by turning the handles into ties. Almost too easy to count as a finish?

This is the Silent Auction I Spy quilt (just missing a little bit of handquilting in this photo....)

LP is wondering who might want it...

Work in Progress - the Kaffe Fassett Garden Rainbow Quilt....

Note the gap in the lavender/purple row? This is where I had bought the wrong amount of fabric and was left short of fabric for the last 6 1/2 inch block of Lavender Haze Stripe fabric. I was short by a mere inch an a half..... how annoying is that? I am now eagerly awaiting the arrival of some more fabric so I can finish the quilttop. Hopefully a March finish

I now have enough stars to start putting rows together as I go along. I still have another 100 or so stars to finish, but it's progressing. The quilt is 15 rows wide. It is all handpieced and it will take another good while to complete..... hopefully by the end of the year!

January finish

January was going to be the month of "I spy" quilt and Checks and Planes quilt.... but "I spy" became "I lost" (I never did recover the bag) and my areoplane quilt is not quite ready for take off. But I did manage this baby quilt..... an easy tie job.

The Texas stars are progressing nicely too, so the challenge is looking promising for later in the year.