Greville Village Market

The market is on in only two days!! My last minute preparations taking place now! Come and visit if you are in Melbourne this Sunday.

Birds on the fridge

I've been making a few new items for the Greville Village Market that's coming up this Sunday in Prahran. These are some new little bird magnets I have been making in progress. The weather looks like it's going to be good for Sunday here in Melbourne, so fingers crossed it stays that way as you never know in Melbourne and it's an outdoor market.

 I've got lots of my cushions and softies ready to go and a few new pieces as well. It will be good to see what goes down well at the market!

New bird magnets on the fridge

Rainy

Its been a bit rainy and grey here in Melbourne over the last weeks so here is one of my favourite fabrics, with raindrops, in my latest patchwork cushion..... Melbourne inspired!

Hand dyed

Another patchwork and quilted cushion. This one has the last scrap of a pumpkin orange fabric I hand dyed back in uni.... many years ago! I was mad for dyeing the fabric, mixing up the dye according to the formula in the recipe book, weighing out powder amounts. You never knew if it would come out the exact colour you chose but it was fun waiting and finding out. I made metres in various colours but only have tiny scraps left now. Not sure where it all went but I'm sure there's a lot of stuff made with that hand dyed fabric! I still love the orange, not too bright and a tiny bit patchy

How many cushions are too many?

 

 It's been a while but I'm back making again! School holidays and a big month and a half of birthdays kept me very busy! I've been making some new patchwork and quilted cushions, this fabric was very cute as it was, so my son got one of these! Sweet but not too girly! He has quite a few cushions on his bed now!

Can't let them go!

 These are the other pair of cushions I have made using the 2wenty thr3e range of fabric by Eric and Julie Comstock. I love these ones so much they are staying on my couch. Time for some new cushions anyway, it's been at least 6 months since I had some new ones!

Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition 2013

 

 Last year I entered the Umbrella Prints Trimmings competition for the first time.(here!) It's what got me started with my blog, facebook and pinterest and then led on to my Made it and Etsy stores!  I had meant to get online for the previous two years...but had just been sewing and creating. The gorgeous Umbrella prints fabric trimmings got me inspired to create and enter. There were such beautiful things made out of the smallest trimmings of fabric in the previous competitions. The fabrics have such lovely patterns and are very inspiring!
This year I have created two rainy themed zip purses. One featuring a free machine embroidered umbrella and raindrops design, the other a cloud and raindrops. Loving those raindrops!

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