Merry Christmas

I have made so many great friends in blog land and to all of you I would

 like to wish you and your families  a Great Christmas 

and a

Happy and Joyous New Year.

Will be back in 2011 after a well earned holiday in Thailand.

Whimsy Place Mats

I've been a busy girl

making these place mats and Pot Holders for Chrissie pressies.

I have been inspired by Jackie from Tallgrass Praire Studio

I just love the whimsy look and these

 are just that.

Pot Holders

My favorite one is the gifts, I loved free handing the bows with my darning

foot on my domestic machine.

I also love this little house.

These have turned out so cute and I have many ideas in my head

of more I want to do, not necessarily Christmas ones though.

Just need to finish the bindings on these and I'm done.

Happy Quilting!!

Splurging

Recently at AQM (Australian Quilt Market) I purchased some goodies,

an early Chrissie present you might say....lucky me !!

Sweet Broderie

By

Rosalie Quinlan

 

Panto's from Anne Bright all the way from America.

 

I couldn't resist these cars they are soooo cute can't wait to

use this one.

Lily and Will - Blue

Oasis by

3 Sisters

 

Lollypop

by

Sandy Gervais

That's it no more fabric!!!  How many times have you said that to yourself??

Like me, too many, this is definitely an addiction.

Now I have lots to continue with over the holidays, so lots of show and tell in

the New Year.

Happy Quilting!!

Look what the Postie Delivered

What a pleasant * SURPRISE* in the mail today, one of my

bloggy friends* HELEN* from Aunt Hennys sent me this lovely

Christmas Card and Coaster.

Thanks soooo much Helen, I love it!

A Wedding to plan

A few weeks ago we had a big

surprise in the SST Family

Kym (my daughter) and her boyfriend Darren

went to Thailand for a holiday and when they came back

they announced their Engagement.

We were all very excited about this news

So Congratulations!!  Kym and Darren on your

Engagement!

They have set their date for May 20th 2012, which gives us

a bit of time to organise things.....luckily. 

So now we have a Wedding to organise isn't that exciting?

Charlie

I have been inspired by Lizzie from

A House in the Country

who made a new lead for her new

puppy Molly

As we have recently had a new addition to the

SST family I thought I'd give it a go.

So here he is Charlie, he is a Cavoodle, cross between a Toy poodle and

King Charles Cavalier

Isn't he the cutest??

His new lead, we have already given it a test run

and all went well, though I would only use it

for small dogs, so now he has a Designer Doggy Lead...haha!

We are very lucky to have Charlie as when we first got him he was very sick

(which we didn't know)

He had bad gastro and landed at the vets for 5 days, with drips, etc. and had to

be operated on, as they first thought he had a blockage, turned out

it was the gastro, but he pulled through and has not looked back.

So yes he does get spoilt, but how can you resist that face.

Happy Quilting!

Funky Feathers

Today is the first day that I have managed to get on my longarm
since AMQ Festival which was the beginning of October. How bad is that?!!... I have been having
withdrawal symptoms. I feel so much better for playing around and putting
into practice what I learned at AMQ.

I have been practicing on paper and couldn't wait to
get to the machine and today I did it.
My C Curve feathers

I am really pleased with how these turned out, a few little
hitches here and there but I'm sure with more practice this will
disappear.

Today I tried the hump and bump way of doing these feathers
and I found that they bedded together better and had a nicer shape, so I think
I'll be changing to this way.

Can't wait for tomorrow to do some more practicing.

Happy Quilting!!