Messenger Bag

As promised I am now sharing my messenger bag I made with the leftover fabric post making the RENT wall hanging for our local theatre company to raffle. I am pretty pleased with this bag and hope whoever wins it in the raffle is too!

This messenger bag pattern I got from Pinterest (are you addicted to Pinterest too??) and would like to share this tutorial here. I think it is a great size and shape.

http://crazylittleprojects.com/2012/09/messenger-bag-tutorial.html

RENT Quilt/Wall Hanging

I just finished this quilt yesterday and am very happy with it. So this quilt (wall hanging actually) will be raffled for the local theatre company where my thespian husband and very very talented step daughter are currently rehearsing for the next production which, yes, you guessed it, is RENT.  For those who are not familiar, RENT is a broadway musical which ran for ten years on broadway. I recommend you see it, there is a movie version, the music is fantastic.

What I love about making a new quilt and actually strive to do, is learn a new technique with every new project. With this quilt I free motion quilted which is not a new technique but I echo quilted it which I had not done before. Wow its time consuming but I think, very effective. My sister is here at the moment and she and I took it in turns to echo quilt. My step daughter was the IT genius for this project, she reproduced the buildings out of words on the computer so we could then print it onto fabric. So hopefully this will raise a lot of money for the theatre company. I am now working on a RENT messenger bag to raffle also using the leftover fabric. I will post a photo when done.

8 Point Star Quilt in Batik - English Paper Piecing

My sister Inge finally started sewing her batik 8 point star pieces together after much nagging from one younger sister, don't know who that could be! Inge and I both agree batik fabric is never used to its full advantage, it is glorious fabric but most of the projects I see with batiks I must say disappoint. Inge loved batiks before I did, when I went over to stay with her and we worked together to choose the fabrics for this project (actually she had bought them all, I only helped matching the two fabrics for the stars and then the squares) I actually fell in love with batiks then.

I think this 8 point star quilt will be gorgeous, do you?

I have lovely batik fat quarter bundles and jelly rolls for sale in my ebay store

www.stores.ebay.com.au/Udderly-Addicted-To-Quilting

EPP - 8 point star quilt progress

So my 8 point star quilt is coming along nicely, for those who haven't read my previous post about this project, this is all english paper pieced so many many hours of hand sewing. I have two major EPP projects on the go at the moment, the other being my houses from scraps quilt but I needed a change so have been working on this project the last few weeks. The weather at the moment here in Victoria is freezing so very conducive to lounging on the couch in front of my wood fire with hand sewing on my lap.

My lovely sister is making the same quilt from batik fabrics, cant wait until she does enough to photograph and I shall share with you all. My sister and I have become so close in the last couple of years because of quilting. We motivate, teach and help each other immensely and I do treasure our time together.