Sunday 30 November 2014

Sewing Update!!

Well we were very busy again today, lets see what we were up to,


Lynda brought along this fantastic Christmas advent calendar :)
Tar Dar!!!!!!!
 
 
Cathy has been very busy, here is another Linus Quilt
Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
Cathy is also making some doggy coats for her beautiful little doggies!
 
 
Merilla has finished her beautiful quilt,
All hand sewed!!
Tar Dar!!!!

 
Merilla has also been working on her lovely Dresden Plate block ;)
 

Emma has been working very hard on her lovely quilt blocks,
 

Lynda has also finished her super digger quilt!!
Ta Dar!!!!!
 
 
and me, with a little help from our Maggie, we have put together this little dress for
my oldest daughter Christmas concert, she is going to be a present, I have just got
to add the bow!
Thanks again Maggie, your a star!!!
 
 
That's it for another week
See you soon
xxx
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Harrogate Knitting & Stitching Show

WOW!!!!! Well we all had a fantastic time yesterday at the knitting & stitch show, there were loads of beautiful things there and I cant wait to share them with you,


There were lots of quilting stalls, and the lovely lady at Puddle Ducks let me take a picture of her fantastic stall, and if  you see anything you like on this photo or would like any more information about any of the quilts, you can visit them at www.puddleducksquilts.co.uk


There was a fantastic bear which another lovely lady had knitted!!! WOW!  
 
 
There was a section where you could go and have a sit down and do a bit of knitting!
 
 
There was another lady demonstrating how to use a knitting machine!!
 
 
There was another brilliant lady, Clare Bullock, who was demonstrating wet felting, and I couldn't resist this beautiful brooch she had made!! :)

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There was also a gallery section, where people were showing off there wonderful creations
 
 
This is a wall hanging made from wet felt in the Black Sheep Felt section,
she was also showing,
 

Needle felting where someone had created a skull of her teddy!
 
 
and the best bit about this exhibitor, she had a section where you could touch and feel all the
 different felt work and explore all the different textures!!
If you would like any other information about this fantastic work visit
blacksheepfelt.wordpress.com
 
Another fantastic exhibition was The British Tapestry Group, which had lots of fantastic pieces
 and a chance for you to have a little try at tapestry to!
 
 
 there was a fantastic tapestry in this section that was representing the sea
 
 
Another super gallery was shared by Ann Small who was showing
textile & mixed media art, who had created this outstanding owl,
 
 
and also these curios little boxes
 
 
and Sue Walton who works with felt, she had created these fantastic
spoon fairies,
 
 
 and these superb felt trees
 
 
these had little windows in the top section with bits in :)
 
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Another beautiful exhibition was done by Jo Beattie, its hard to describe these
creations so it a good job I took some pics
 

these were done on fabric,
 
 
they were hung away from the wall with a light shining through them,
they created brilliant shadows on the wall!
 
 
this piece was over a meter wide but i wanted a close up of the
stunning details :)
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Someone else who was demonstrating, was this brilliant man,
who was weaving, using his feet!!!!
 

Another man was showing us how to do marbling, this was fantastic also,
 

we had a chance to have a go, then could keep the finished result! Fab!
We were that excited about the marbling, that Wendy brought us a kit so I can
see a marbling workshop/ play day coming soon!!
 

I think I saved my favourite till last, this lovely lady, Tania Sneesby
she made cards, pictures and lovely keepsakes. if you would like to view these
you can at www.taniasneeby.com
 
Well we all had a brilliant day, and I cant wait till the next outing!!
 
See you soon
xxx
 
 
 
 

Thursday 20 November 2014

Harrogate!!!!

We are all very excited for our little outing on Sunday, We are all of to Harrogate knitting and stitching show! This will be my first show and I am really looking forward to everything!!!! :)
and hopefully there will loads of fab photos :)
Well today our new friend Emma joined us again :) Which was lovely! She brought along a piece she had already made, which looked stunning (sorry forgot to take a pic!!) she also brought along her latest project,
 

this is going to look fantastic when its finished :)
 
 
 Well Wendy has been busy, like normal!
We have a fabulous Christmas panel!!  Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
A beautiful Christmas stocking, Ta Dar!!


This fantastic little dolly with dress, shoes and even some long knickers!!!!
Ta Dar!!!!
 
 
and another stunning Christmas panel!!!!
 
 
and at the moment! Wendy is working on this lovely Christmas table runner!!
 

Annie Pie has been working on her au tumble Bargello quilt, with a lovely boarder on.

 
she also has time to make this fantastic doggy pin cushion!!!
 
 
Cathy added yet another quilt to the Linus pile! she just needs to cut her crusts off
and pop her binding on :)
 
 
Maggie has been working on her 'Elsa' dress, I really cant wait to see this finished!!!
 
 
Irene brought along this beautiful label, which she is colouring in with
special water resistant crayons.

 
 Margaret, after losing her first attempt at doing this wall hanging,
she is having a second go cause she loves it so much!!
And its looking fantastic :)
 
 
Annette is back on her lap quilt, at the moment she is adding her binding
:)
 
That's it for another week
See you soon xx
 

Tuesday 18 November 2014

Busy Busy

Well today we were super busy, and the hall was full of lovely ladies and sewing machines!!

We also had a visitor who is interested in joining our little group, She just popped in, said hello to everyone and had a look what everyone was doing, and hopefully she will be able to join us very soon. So if you read the blog and are interested in joining, that's all you have to do!!!

We also had another visitor, A very lovely lady came to visit us, Mrs Jean Walklett, and she has donated to us a fantastic a Singer Futura Sewing Machine, with the instructions, bobbins and a fancy embroidery stich on, aren't we lucky!!! and a big thank you from everyone for your generosity  :)



Jenny has been working on this fantastic quilt for her grandson,
she sandwiched it and pinned it all ready for quilting!!
 

Tar Dar!!!!! Annette has finished her fantastic heart quilt, and has done a
lovely job of quilting it!!
 

Jenny has also finished her beautiful table runner Ta Dar!!!!
 


Maggie has cut out her pieces for her frozen dresses
'Anna'
 

And Elsa! cant wait to see these finished!!!
 

Cathy has been working really hard on her Bargelo Quilt, and has started
to add her boarders :) well done cathy its looking fantastic!!
 

 
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Lynda has been making these super mini IPad bags, to hold her IPad
very usefully when you are out and about!!
 
 
My younger daughter and I, have been working on this present
for her teacher for Christmas

 
I hope she like it :)

 
Also I was working on my table runner by adding triangle edges :)
 
There were lots of photos that I didn't take because I was so busy, so sorry to all the people who haven't got there fantastic projects on here.
 
That's it for another week
see you soon
xxx