Umbrella Prints Competition

 Just in the nick of time... my entry to the Umbrella Prints Trimmings competition! Little fabric fridge magnets.

Umbrella Prints Competition 2014

 It's that time of year again for the Umbrella print's competition. I really wanted to to it again as the fabric is so beautiful and always inspires me to create things..... but I've gone back to work after five years maternity leave so Dewberry has taken a bit of back seat this year! I thought if I get the trimmings pack I would have to get something made.... as it turns out I have made one small thing and thought I had at least all of tomorrow to finish some creations. A 9am deadline to get the work in makes it tough as I haven't photographed anything yet.... early morning photos, lets hope for good light!
As I have discovered being back at work nothing gets me working quicker than the night before a deadline! I work well under pressure!
There may be another post tomorrow morning....

Cloudy....chance of rain

Some new fridge magnets I have been making. Clouds! I was inspired by the raindrop fabric that I have used before in other rain inspired projects, it's still  one of my favourites at the moment. Spots are always a favourite! These were to brighten up my fridge but now I'm selling them also!

In The Age...

My work was featured in The Age on Saturday in some advertising for the Greville Village Market that was on, on Sunday.  A bit exciting to open the paper and see your stuff in there! (a friend actually spotted it by chance , texted me and told me it was in there!!) I wasn't at that actual market but will be back on Sunday December 1st for my last market there. Hopefully the weather is lovely then, but each market so far has had pretty good weather.... very important for an outdoor market!!

Sleepy bunnies

New sleepy bunnies with a lovely wool fabric body. 

Market Day

First market at the Greville village market completed! It was great weather, really sunny, although a little windy! We had to hold onto the marquees at times so they didn't take off! The market was beautifully set up with coloured marquees and signage for each stall. There were 24 stalls with varied products and items. All very crafty ! My stall went really well so I'm pretty happy! I'll be back there on the 15th Sept and 1st and 3rd Sundays in Oct for my next three stalls, so hopefully we get good weather and lots of people also for those ones!

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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23 cushions

 

My latest cushion using my newest most favourite fabric line!!!!....2wenty Thr3e by Eric and Julie Comstock of Cosmo Cricket for Moda. I bought a jelly roll as meterage wasn't available yet and I couldn't wait! I got a little bit of the whole fabric line this way with so many to choose from. There are some very beautiful fabrics with collage numbers, retro tickets, cameras and patterns. This cushion has been quilted on the top . I also made another set using these fabrics but they are going to stay on my couch!! These ones are available in my made it shop

Shop Contemporary Handmade giveaway

It's been very busy lately with Easter and School holidays...making and creating slowed down a bit but the end of April and all of May are going to be very busy with a couple of showcases and competitions I'm involved with coming up. I need to make lots of new items for these but gets me being creative again!
 You can win this Blue Chevron Sleepy bird along with a whole lot of other prizes worth over $600 in a competition/giveaway I'm involved in at Shop Contemporary Handmade.

It's the SCH 2nd Birthday Mega Handmade Giveaway. Over 2 weeks they will be giving away over $1300 worth of prizes. To enter go to the website here. (It is a facebook competition) . I'm also taking part in their Make it Work Challenge where the public can vote on Australian designer's work.

Bunnies for the boys

Amongst all the other bunnies I made , I also made these for my boys for Easter. I was going to give them some of my other ones but they were all gone! These ones are a bit more boyish! The orange one was made with a free down load pattern by Sleepy King who makes very cute softies. I previously made a green version and then made a bigger one to match!
 Have a lovely Easter.

Umbrella girl cushion

 Continuing with my rainy umbrella theme here is my latest cushion featuring a little girl with an umbrella! Created with free machine embroidery.