I forgot to show you in my previous post today------ I found some great Christmas buttons in Spotlight .... 3 to a card for $4.99... I have already sewn a few onto the Christmas Wallhanging. If you want to see the buttons close up, I have put them on my gallery.Some of the gold stars have fallen off! I have had them for years so I guess the "glue" may have worn off by now! As I have a large bag of them, I'll just iron some more on:-)
Happy Sewing!
The Christmas buttons are so cute. I love the personality a few buttons can bring to a quilt.
ReplyDeleteHi Helen...I just love your cute little buttons. I am going to find some here in my area. I can think of a dozen places for them!
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Hi Helen,
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable Xmas wall-hanging you made. I immediately fell in love with it. Is is your own design or is there a pattern to buy somewhere? I also do love the fabric, it's so different from the "normal" Xmas fabric.
I myself made a little wall-hanging with mini-baskets (paper piecing)and I also used some funny fabric (by Moda). I'm not completely ready yet, but it will be finished in time for Xmas.
I like the buttons, too, they are just great!
And it's very funny to read about the weather in your country, to hot to sew! I can hardly imagine that since in Holland we have winter now and it's cold and at 4 PM it's almost dark here.
Quilting hugs,
Inge from the Netherlands
Hi Helen,
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that I do love your Xmas wall-hanging. It's great, all the lovely little patterns and the fabric, wow! The buttons are very cute, too.
And about the weather in your country, I can hardly imagine how that is, Xmas in Summer, to hot to sew.....here in Holland it's winter, cold and almost dark at 4 PM! What a difference!
Quilting hugs,
Inge
Oh great! Now there are 2 comments by me and with this one 3 LOL! Your web-log just told me 2x that I didn't succeed in posting a comment, sigh......
ReplyDeleteInge
Hi everyone! Thanks for your lovely comments......... the pattern for the Wallhanging came from Homespun Magazine. It was in 3 parts, so you had to wait for the next issue to come out before you could work on the next round of blocks. The original pattern had 16 blocks, but I chose to cut it down to 9 - many of the fabrics were from my local Patchwork shop called Peppermint Stitches (in Toowong,Brisbane).
ReplyDeleteHappy Sewing!
Great minds - I bought the round buttons at Spotlight & went back for more yesterday. All I have to do is finish quilting so I can sew on the buttons!
ReplyDeleteHi Helen,
ReplyDeleteThe Holly Jolly wallhanging from Homespun looks fabulous - great fabric choices. Would you like to share it with our readers in the Mailbag pages?
Please contact me if you're interested.
Regards,
Elizabeth Newton
Deputy Editor, Homespun