mine-crafty

no.1's very good friends are twin, and they turned six today.

as their gift i wanted to make them something, but what do you make for a six year old boy (unless you work in a toy factory in china - then you could make loads of stuff they'd like!) they are completely and utterly into minecraft - so a minecraft cushion it is!

i ordered the fabrics from plush addict after school on tuesday and they were through the letter box on wednesday! very impressive.

i did all my maths to calculate what size squares i would need for a 30cm cushion insert, cut some squares out and decided my maths must have been wrong and cut lots and lots of squares a bit smaller...... turns out my maths was right, so this one has a black border to make it a bit bigger.

then i went back to my originally calculations and made this one....

in a way i quite like that they are different as they are for twins, it's nice for them to have things not exactly the same.

giveaway day!

hello to everyone visiting from sew mama sew's giveaway day.

this is my little blog journalling my crafting adventures - it's still fairly new, but i have lots of great projects all waiting patiently for a little write up!

anyway... i'm giving away this fat quarter set of momo's wonderland, four fat quarters in total.



i'll select a random number on May 26th (Singapore time - so it may well still be the 25th where you are!) and i will ship internationally all you have to do  is leave me a comment telling me what your favourite tutuorial in blogland is. i have a list as long as both my arms of tutorials i want to make, and i decided recently to make an effort to actually sew some of them! so watch this space for some tutorial reviews. if you'd like to become a follower - please do, but no pressure!

Echino Irish Chain

Here's the Echino fabrics which I ordered from Fabricworm and Lucky Kaeru Fabrics. One day soon they will be chopped up and sewn back together into a Single Irish Chain quilt.


I'm itching to get started, but so far my will power is winning and I'm concentrating on finishing some of the many projects which have been lying around!


Hopefully my fabric stack photos are getting a little better, after reading these posts about uploading from flickr and editing in iPhoto

First finish of 2011

My first finish of 2011 - and amazingly it's part of one of my goals for 2011!!



Bunting for Sophia's room...



And some fabric covered canvases - really easy to do, you just need a staple gun.

So that's the first two projects of my pretty-fy the girls rooms goal.

Also on the list is:
   new quilt for Sophia
   coordinating pillowcases
   mini unicorn canvases
   name pillows for each of the girls
   finish off Harriet's quilt (currently in the WIP pile)
   pompom  mobile
   matryoshka embroidery
  
And anything else I think of along the way.