Dear Jane

Well thanks to my friend Vicki, I have finally started my DJ quilt blocks after months of admiring pieces of fabric!
I have now finished three blocks (and a half which I will be redoing!) all using the freezer paper in front method. I will post a few pics and will now try to add them as I go to try and keep track.
A6 Uncle Homer

Fwd: Don't be too shocked... I've started!

Well after several weeks of procrastination and avoidance I've finally bitten the bullet and I am starting. Don't look too closely at my first piece, I am kinda happy even though it's far from perfect! It is a lesson I'm learning as I go along and experiment. I am not following an exact plan or layout just a colour pallet in general of tea stained plain and gold / red / brown patterns I'm playing around with. I want to do the whole quilt but will see where I get to!  It's square a4 I'm doing first and don't ask me why that is I just started with that one!!!!  Two hours to do a third of one square!!!!  Full steam ahead now.  

Melissa

Another day another apron

Scarf for Thomas

The kids wanted me to make a scarf for them so I have unpacked the needles and duted off my fingers and got to work on a simple scarf for each of them. I've finished the first one and he loves it!!!

Todays project

After a week of not doing much towards my planned projects, other than fabric shopping I have finally felt like trying one of them. Having only started back into sewing in the last couple of months I am trying easier things (supposedly) but keep getting carried away.

Today I decided I was finally going to make my clothes peg apron that I have been talking about for so long. I was getting tired of the kids throwing my pegs around the back yard and leaving them to get dirty!

I adapted a pattern that I found on the web and am pretty happy how it has turned out, aside from a few wonky stitch lines! Would you believe that the bias binding is probably 30 years old, I found it in my mum's stash I forgot I had and she has been gone for over 20 years!

I picked out the front panel fabric last week at Spotlight as it just screamed out to me "Apron"

Here it is!