the end of 2014

Well here we are, at the end of 2014. This year has not been the best year for me personally. Nor has it been an overly creative year. But that is all going to change in 2015 :-)

2015 is going to be my year to shine bright :-) I will be blogging more, selling more & generally having a great year. In both my personal life & my business life. I have set goals & big dreams for this coming new year. And I am going to get you all to make me accountable for my year. You can joint me on Facebook to see how I am going & also by leaving comments here on my blog.

I am doing a workbook with a wonderful lady called Leonie Dawson. If you too would like to do this amazing work book & shine bright yourself this coming 2015 then here is a link to do so https://leoniedawson.com/shop/kits/shining-year-workbook-calendar-2015/ Lets all make 2015 a shining year for us all.

Warm hugs to you all
Elizabeth xx

Slowly but surely

The designing for my classes is coming along slowly but surely. Life is quite busy at the moment seeing as it is Summer holidays here in Australia. Keeping children entertained is quite a challenge :-) Plus I have a couple of unfinished projects that really need my attention. I am trying to have UFO's finished before starting on new UFO's :-)

Who would have thought though, that there was so much involved in designing pieces of work! I usually just make things & thats that. But when you are making things for a class, you need to do all the steps of designing, testing & then making. All while taking photos, making videos & writing notes.

Needless to say, I am having fun. And hopefully you will have a very in-depth learning experience in the classes.

Hugs Elizabeth

Another Year

Well, here we are it is now 2014. I have great things planned for this year. I am hoping to set up some on line stump work & book making classes, as well as blogging weekly, daily maybe :-)

I have made myself a To-Do-List for 2014. I found the one I made to get through Christmas was the best thing I ever did in 2013 :-) I was able to get through the Christmas dramas with very little stress :-)

So keep watching this space.
Hugs Elizabeth xxx

Playing with scraps

This piece of fabric is made from all of my scraps of fabric, that I have been collecting in a jar since starting Karen Ruane's workshops. I have also added a few snippets of other fabrics as well. The piece measures approximately 50cm x 30cm. To make it, I layed out all of my scrapps of fabrics & lace onto a piece of Muslin or cheese cloth as some would call it. Then I tacked them all in place once I was happy. After that I then took it to the sewing machine & did FME ( free machine embroidery) all over it to hold the snippets in place. I did not use a hoop to do the FME, hence the bubbly effect on the fabric. But then I quite like the looks of the bubbly effect :-)

This is a piece of one of a kind fabric, & you could not buy it :-) ( A Karen thing :-) )

I have made so far from this fabric, an owl. "OWLY" She is my snowy owl for Christmas.

I am hoping to make a few more things from the piece of fabric. So keep watching this space.

Warm Hugs & Happy Stitching
Elizabeth xxxxx

Getting ready for Christmas

I have been making decorations in readiness for Christmas this year. I cannot believe how fast this year has gone. I am also working on a few other projects at the moment as well, & will share them in time. As they are gifts :-)

Warm Hugs & Happy stitching
Elizabeth xxx

Finished my first pin pillow

I have finished my first pin pillow. I am hoping to make more of them & put them into my etsy store, so keep watching this space.

This photo shows the pockets that I have created in the lace & it's main function.
BIG warm hugs
Your Friend
Elizabeth xx

I'm still here

Sorry again for being away so long. Life does get very hectic at time. I have recently gone back to work & have been busy beavering away on different projects. I am still working on my tea pot from the last post. But have been caught up in the bug of making pin pillows with Karen Ruane☺

I am also working on an embroidered fabric book for my grand daughter for Christmas as well. It will be an interactive adventure book. I will be taking a photo of her & making it into a fabric version of a paper doll, then I will make clothes & things for her to put on herself, then each page will be embroidered with different adventures for her to take. Well, this is what I am hoping it will be.☺☺

This is the pin pillow that I have been working on. It is being damp stretched at the moment, & hopefully today will be made into the pillow☺

I am also still working on my quilt that I shared with you a while ago now. It is getting there though☺ I have also made, well, embroidered the front panel of a cushion to acompany the quilt when it is made☺

I will end this post with photos of things I have been working on for the last few months.

Warm hugs to you all
Happy stitching
Elizabeth xxx

 This book is from an amzing quilt exhibition that I went to with my mum recently. It is on at the Brisbane art gallery, & is a collection of quilts from the Victoria & Albert museum. And they also brought along the most amazing stumpwork casket that I have ever seen☺ Sadly I was not aloud to take heaps of photos of it☹

 This piece is a piece of FME scrim that I am making into a lacy kind of quilt. Well mine will be a curatin when I have made more panels.☺

And I recently purchase this book from the book depository. It is an amzaing book. One day I am going to fill the book with my own sketches & embroideries. For all that have seen or own this book you will know what I mean☺