Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Stork Deliveries

Come March 1st we will be celebrating the birthday of our nephew who will be one. Sadly we won’t be there to watch him open his presents or spit at his candles as he lives back home in England. Not only that but we will miss the arrival of his little brother who is due to make an appearance at the end of April. We are there in spirit though and to make sure they know we care I have been busy with the sewing machine making handy presents for them.

First is a wall hanging quilt that has little pockets down the side of his name where his mum can put little toys.

The next present which was a commission by his mum is a nappy stacker. I can’t take credit for the design as I got the pattern on the internet, as I had never heard of a nappy stacker before and didn’t have a clue what it looked like. But I think I did a good job and I hope they will be pleased with it.

Now getting to that age where everyone is growing up and getting married and having babies! It feels a bit strange in a way because it feels like yesterday I was 18, but that was 10 years ago.


Wall Hanging Quilt

I hope my little nephews like their pressies and hopefully in the coming year I can give them the gift of a cousin to play with.


Nappy Stacker

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Recommended Reading

I was thinking I would post some books that I recently got that i've found very inspiring. The first is the Quilting Bible.

As a Brit I wanted to learn how to make a traditional American Quilt. I found the whole book full of useful step by step guides and inspiring projects. Even if you know how to quilt having this on your bookshelf will always be useful. I always still collect how to sew books just because they are always good as reference and no matter how many years you've been sewing.

Link to the book:
Quilting Bible


My American - British Quilt being made.



My husband got me this for Christmas. Lotta Jansdotters's Simple Living. Its a wonderful book if you are a sewing beginner or if you're a lover of functional, pragmatic Scandinavian design and you want to get some inspiration. Lotta Jansdotter also has lots of other books and she has a website http://www.jansdotter.com
I left most of my books back home, so I would welcome any suggestions for interesting books to look out for here, so as to build up my new collection.