Personalised Buntings

My sister started making these buntings and I thought what a great gift to give for Xmas! So I thought I would make them too and sell them at my market stall. So am selling them for $25 for up to six letters and then $3 extra each letter after that. I think they are so cute, would look fantastic above any child's bed.

I am also making Merry Xmas buntings $30 and denim Xmas stockings $18.50 to sell!

Udderly Addicted to Japanese Fabric

Tonight I spent time organising my stash seeing as its Springtime I seem to have the bug. So this week I have scrubbed my kitchen including the dreaded oven, I am working on the linen closet and tonight had the inspiration to make more room to display my Japanese fabric. I just adore Yoko Saito's designs and have said so before this so am always on the lookout for taupe Japanese fabric. This is not always easy, it seems not many quilting shops stock it. My local quilt store which sell their fabric really cheaply do have a small range and I always find excuses to visit and buy just a little bit more before they run out. I also visited a quilt shop in both Ballan and Ballarat here in Victoria and they have a good range. So anyway, tonight I folded and stacked my Japanese fabric and thought I would share and also show you my stack of Yoko Saito books!

With the fabric I had on two of these shelves I rolled these around the cardboard from the bolts you get at the quilt shop. I have slowly been collecting them from a couple of stores and thought it would look great to display my yardage fabric on these. The front of my sewing desk has just the right size recess to display them. Seems I need to keep shopping to fill the space!

Baxter the Badger

Wow two posts in a week, well i did say the week was still young and who know what else I could finish this week. Well whilst keeping warm today, watching many episodes of Greys Anatomy today, I finished making Baxter the Badger! This pattern is a Ric Rac pattern by Jodie Carleton and I just love him!  I might have to make him a mate though don't you think?

Retractable Tape Measure House

Its been a productive week this week as I have completed a UFO and created this cute retractable tape measure house. So it is a stuffed house with a retractable tape measure inside with the button to retract it being in between the two windows inside the house, clever dont you think! I originally found this on Pinterest as a product to buy and thought "I can make that" so I did. I just love houses and Japanese fabric so teamed them together Yoko Saito style (I so admire her work) and came up with this! I needleturn appliquéd the windows and the door, a technique I really find relaxing.

The UFO I completed was the hexagon glasses case shown above. I have already posted a photo of another one which I lovingly made for my mum for her birthday and loved it myself, so made another. Like many of my projects, I went hell for leather (isn't that such a strange saying, wonder where that originated?)  and then got bored and started another project (is there anything more exciting than starting a new project?).

Well the week is still young so who knows what I might drag out and finish, there are many to choose from I can tell you!