A Quilting Quality Time!! #HeatherMakes

Hello there,

Thought I would pop on and say 'Hello'

Over the past few weeks Katie and I have made a lovely quilt!  I did the sewing and she chose the fabrics and helped (being bossy) with the design and layout!!  We really love this quilt!

At the moment I am in the planning things to make and sew for the schools Christmas Fayre.  Pinterest is a great place for ideas and 'how too' tutorials!  I love it!  

Do you use Pinterest at all?  I can spend hours browsing through all the lovely ideas!

Bye for now

Hugs

Heather

xxxx

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Catch up ...

Hello!

I hope everyone is doing well 😍😍

I have spent the past few weeks designing and sewing a coat for the school! The year 7's are performing Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. It must admit it was alotof work but a whole heap if fun with amazing satisfaction when it was finished!! Needless to say that the teachers and children love it!! I cannot show photos yet! I will once the play is over.

I have also sewn a baby quilt. Mums friends first grandchild is due this week! Once the quilt has been passed on I can post photos.

The other evening we went to our schools summer fete! Great evening!

Getting ready to bounce

Lovely Ice-Cream

Last week it was Caras 7th birthday! She had a great day!

Great fun had by us all over the past few weeks! We only have 2 full school weeks left before the schools finish for the holidays!! Wow! This school year has flown by!

Have fun! Stay safe!
Hugs Heather
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Quilting the Quilt with love!

Good Evening all,

I have been busy sewing away on a quilt for Katie!  She chose the fabric and design.  I just did the easy bit of sewing it together haha!  All I have left to do is to sew the edging on now.  It is looking fantastic 😁

2 Log Cabin Blocks

All 8 blocks to complete the front

The back of the quilt

I am totally delighted with the back.  I was going to use one solid piece of fabric but Katie decided to give me more of a challenge!!  I must say it is looking brilliant! 

No other news really!  Just a quick post tonight!  Poorly kiddies and cat plus lack of sleeps makes me boring hahaha!

Chat soon

Love and hugs

Heather

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I think I'm addicted ... More finishes!!

Good Evening everyone :D

Cara's topic at school at the moment is Houses and Homes, so I have made up a quilt block with a house on!  I shall make it into a hanger for her so she can take it into school on Monday!  

House Quilt Square 

This is a log cabin Quilt block!  I am being 'bossed' about by Katie as she now want a quilt made.  I just so happened to be watching a Melanie Ham video on You Tube when she came into my room! So of course she wants a Log Cabin Quilt.  This block was my practise!  

Log Cabin Quilt Square

This is a bag that I made as a belated present for Katie's friend!!  Katie made her some pompoms too! 

Bag for a gift &
Katie's pompoms

Thats all for now folks!

Have a great evening!

Love me
xoxoxox

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Sewing Finishes :D YIPEEEEE #Quilting #FunStuff

Good Afternoon!

Hope everyone is well and crafting away!

Cara's quilt is finished and she is totally delighted with it 😍

I must admit it turned out quite well for my first try at a single bed sized quilt 😃😀

Rainbow Quilt

Happy Girl

Lovely colours! 

SEW ... I have cut out pieces for my next quilting project.  This one is a little more involved than sewing stripes haha!! I will do this in between other projects.  I also want to get back to cross stitching as I've many projects unfinished!  

All ready to sew

Layout of the main blocks

For a bit of fun ...  the kiddies bus driver playfully skitted me that sewing is a woman's job ... I sewed him a tool belt so he can now do man jobs!!  hahaha!!  I even made him model it 😁

I didn't have fabric with buses on, so trains it was ... well they have wheels and move!!  Not much of a difference really lol

Tool Belt

Bus driver modelling it!!

Have a great day all!!

Bye for now
Love me
xxxx

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Rainbow Quilt nearly finished!

Morning to you all!

The past few weeks I have been working on a lovely Rainbow Quilt for Cara! 

Rainbow Jelly Roll

Nearly got all the stripes on

Binding (edging) ready to sew on

All sewn on 

Now all I need to do it to hand stitch the binding to the back!!  That will take quite a few hours I think!!  I was working away at it last night and only got a very small part of it sewn.  The quilt will fit her single bed!!  So its quite a big project for me!  

Katie brought her homework book home the other day and I just love the No10!!

The girl knows me well!!

I have started off a sewing club at school!  The kiddies are delighted!!  We are making small decorative cushions 😍

Other than normal everyday things and my sewing that's all I have done the past few weeks!! 

Have fun, happy crafting

Love and hugs me

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Walking foot ... and Happy Travelling into 2017

Good morning all!!

Just a quick post to show you the start of my little project :D It is a quilted fabric trinket bowl :D

The Start

First Side Complete

This is great fun!!!

I hope you all travel well and safely into 2017!

Happy New Year!

Bye for now

Love Me
xxx

Sewing, 5K and back on the road again!!

Good Morning!

All seems to be getting back to normal here now, thank goodness! We now have a new car so fingers crossed that no one decided to try and 'hitch a ride on the back of our car with theirs!!' 

First off I have to 'brag' about Mark and Katie!!  They did a 5K run/walk with the school a few weekends ago!!  They are so pleased with themselves!  It was totally pouring down with rain too!  They were totally drenched.  Shoes took days to dry out lol I am so proud of them!  Since I could not take part after the accident, one of their school assistants said he would take them with him and his dog!  They were leaving last to make sure all the participants had not got lost or fallen ill during the run/walk!!  Mark and Katie didn't mind knowing they were going to be in last as they really wanted to do the run/walk!  It was a fun run/walk so what did it matter!!  They really had a great time walking the dog too! 

Katie coming 'home'

Mark and Ellie the dog coming 'home'

They did it in an hour and 10 mins as they 'went out'
about 20 mins after everyone else

As you can see they are very wet looking lol!!

Still suffering the effects of the whip lash and cant sit and sew for long like I used too but I am sure things will get better in time! 

I spent a few days making this Jelly Roll quilt!  I am delighted with it.  I didn't have one solid piece large enough for the back so I made my own!!  

Quilt Front

Quilt Back

This weekend we have declared a SAS weekend ... Sit And Sew!!  Lets hope that all goes to plan haha  I hope SEW!!  lol

Bye for now
Take care
Love me
xoxoxox