HELLO DOLLY!

Our darling little Chloe (my great-niece) is turning 5 next weekend - I'm making her a doll (same dolly I made for little B.B.) and also a bag which I haven't even started yet. It's very cute, in the shape of a ballerina costume.

As you can see, the dolly hasn't got her stuffing as yet! I love how these dolls are put together - you build the whole thing BEFORE you do any stuffing. The pattern was in a Patchwork and Stitching magazine, the designer is Toni Alexander. If you click on Toni's name, you will be taken to the Pattern page on her blog.

Today my friends and I went to a Quilt Show. The Quiltsitters group have their Quilt Show in a lovely old hall out at Brookfield. We had a lovely time, even though it was very hot today - it's only early Spring and it already feels like Summer!!

Next weekend I'm going to another Quilt Show - my girlfriend is taking me out for my birthday!

Tomorrow it's forecast RAIN so I'm planning a day of sewing!

I mentioned that I had learnt a few lessons about running a give-a-way ..... I won't cover everything in this one post, I'll do it bit by bit.....

1. Many bloggers don't list their own blog in their Profile page.

2. Many bloggers have a totally different BLOG name to the name they use in their emails and comments -- sometimes with NO link to each other.

3. So many bloggers are a "no reply" email address - very annoying unless they really don't want to be found! I suggest starting up another email address which you can use for blogging -- that way you don't have to use your own personal family email address.

Happy Sewing!

HELLO DOLLY!

I have made another Rag Doll - this one is for our darling little B.B. I also made the dolly a little quilt. Last week I needed a sample quilt to show how to do the machine method that I absolutely LOVE (link removed June 2012, site problems), so I put two fat quarters together with a scrap of wadding and voila.... one dolly quilt! Look who dropped in when I was taking the photos!! Our pet kookaburra.... I say pet, as he now comes every day and is very friendly. We only give him a very small morsel of meat, but he seems to be content to just sit out on the deck with us - MH reading the paper, me stitching and Spike (as we call him - he used to have spiky feathers on the top of his head) keeping an eye out for any birds that should not be near our property--according to him!!

Other sewing involves finally putting the borders on my disappearing nine patch quilt (boy is this quilt ever a UFO - from forever ago!!), piecing the blocks for another Brights Baby Quilt - using lessons learned from the first one..... especially pressing the seams OPEN! I'm using up all of the leftover fabrics from the first quilt and will set the blocks a little differently to the one I made for our friends Baby - at least the quilts won't be exactly the same! Photos soon!!

Happy Sewing!