Shakey Stitches

Each week I visit my neighbours for craft night. Usually I bring my own thing but sometimes they teach me something new and we work on a project together. I was interested in crocheting edges on tea towels, face washers etc so each week Laura would show me a new design. This was great, I learnt a lot but the problem was with no pattern I had a hard time giving them away because I had to look at them to work out how to do it again. So in an attempt to declutter I have taken photos of a couple of my favourites and will be storing them here so if I want to make these edges again I will be able to find them.

Rachel at stitched in color is doing a  vintage rainbow mosaic contest , I have always been interested in her mosaic contests and this one is open internationally so I thought why not give it a try. This is my version of vintage rainbow. Perhaps I should have added a solid but prints feel so vintage to me.

I made this quilt for a friend from high school who is due to have a baby boy any day now. It was pretty easy and I completed it over two days although it could be easily done in one day. I kept the quilting minimal. Next I want to make Hazel Hedgehog for another friend.

Earlier this year I signed up to three swaps on instagram as well as the hexie flower swap. That was before everything in my life went wrong at the same time. I have sent off and received packages for the dog mini swap and the unicorn swap. I will post photos of what I received on a later date. I forgot to take photos of the packages I sent because I was so excited. Unfortunately the dog swap never arrived and I am still waiting for the unicorn one to arrive but I am expecting it to take a while to get to Brazil. I am finally getting back into the swing of things so I will show you the fabric postcards I sent off last week. The swap was make three fabric postcards and send them to three different partners. You will then receive three postcards from three different people. Two of them are going to the UK and one is going to Canada. I was a bit worried posting them because you don't put them in an envelope you use them as an ordinary postcard. I sent them last week so t...

  Here are the flowers I have sent to my partner. She asked for flowers with pink or purple petals and neutral centres. I hope she likes them. I have yet to receive any flowers so I will show you the ones I have made myself. I have asked for pastel petals with a fussy cut centre. I haven’t been totally true to this theme as I wouldn’t count all of mine as pastel. Also some of my centres are more memory fabrics rather than fussy cut but its my quilt I can do what I like.

May was my first month in the  inchy hexagon flower swap !  I have asked for pastel petals with a fussy cut centre. My partner asked for bright solid petals with black solid centres.  I hope she likes them. My plan is to make the required two for my partner and two for myself each month. In may month I made myself three so I'm already ahead.

I gave Moony her eyes and she looks so much cuter.  I think she even looks a bit cheeky. I hide her around the house as she is a pretty nice surprise.  I still need to work on my photo editing but I hope that comes with practice.   I hope you had a nice weekend xxx ooo