Hexys, knitting and some WIPs!

Well autumn has well and truly arrived, it is wet and dull and generally a bit ick! And its christmas in less than 7 weeks!!

I haven't had a chance to do a lot lately, mainly catch up with sleeping! There is a quilt on my desk that is 3/4 quilted, which I need to finish and photo, and blog about, but in the mean time here are a few bits I am working on...

Knitting, well attempting to learn to knit, this will, hopefully be a scarf one day..

 Paper pieced hexagons, I always thought this was a long drawn out project, but I find them pretty quick to make, and I really really enjoy making them too!

 I sit on the sofa, with my box of scraps, needle, thread and scissors and away to go!!

 A small flannel quilt in progress for the baby :-) 

 Another quilt in progress for the baby should he be a he! In fact I have a few in progress quilts for the baby, oops!

That is all that I have pictures of for now, also working on some felt and leather brooches which I will show off soon!

Kellye xxx

A few things..

These are few things I have recently finished/are a work in progress... I am attempting to finish my UFO's before starting anything new, however, it's harder than I thought..

Thermofax screenprinted cushion, I printed the fabric a few weeks ago and made this up on my birthday, when I had a day off!

 Wonky close up of the print!

 My discharged and screen printed peice made at a workshop with the lovely Ineke Berlyn, complete and bound. Im not sure what purpose this has now, but I couldn't bear to cut it up to make it into something!

 A close up of some detailed thread sketching/quilting!

And a sneak of what Im working on currently..

A small wallhanging all hand applique. Im just putting off binding it as the binding is soo narrow :-S

A little christmas wallhanging, all hand quilted, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this, again just the binding to finish..bah binding.

 And another small printed peice, with machine and hand stitching. This is bound already but I decided it needs more stitching before it's finished, and perhaps some beads, who knows!

That's all for now, Enjoy, Kellye xxx

I'm back!!! Briefly...

There is a reason why I have been absent for so long... And a reason why I haven't been sewing lately....

IM PREGNANT! My first baby is due 3rd march 2012 :-D I am so incredibly excited!!!

Between feeling sick and being so tired nothing very creative has happened, however I am feeling great now, and things are getting made so keep checking back for new posts!

Kellye xxx

Flowers flowers!

Im quite enjoying taking photo's at the moment, I am only using my blackberry torch mobile phone, but I think it is good enough for me! I do have a camera, but it is big and bulky and I don't want to carry it around everywhere on the off chance I will want to take a picture! These flowers are in my nans garden, and the poppies are down in suffolk, where I will be heading again in a week!

Oh and so there is something fabric related...

These were made from scraps of fabric leftover from doing out my campervan! I had re-uphosltered some of the camper when I was feeling under the weather, these are to hide some imperfections, and look pretty of course!

Thanks kellye xxxx

A lazy me...

The weather lately has been so hot and muggy that I hardly feel like doing anything sewing-y. A hot iron and 26 degrees, no thanks!

However I have made this..

 A book cover! I have this 'problem', I enjoy love buying stationary, particularly sketchbooks, so I decided I ought to prettify them (read-justify having so many) So I covered this one with some hand dyed and screenprinted fabric! Im really pleased :-)

Kellye x

A little bit of amy butler!

A little while ago, I had 10 minutes to pop into John Lewis (for the first time ever!!) whilst we were passing through cardiff for a football match. I head straight to the craft/haberdashery/fabric section and proceeded to buy 10cm increments of the new Amy Butler range. I was pushed for time so literally selected the ones which caught my eye!

I wasn't sure what to do with them all, so chose three and cut them into 2 and half inch strips and made this!

And I have also finally mastered mitered binding!!! Woo! So so much easier :-) and it looks better don't you think?

Kellye xxx  

Bags and black magic!

I recently attended a class with the lovely Ineke Berlyn again, it was entitled black magic. Basically using black cotton fabric as a base we used thermofax screens to discharge the colour out, and print colour on!

Then backing it with wadding we free motion quilted with the intention of making a bag out the best bits! I was really pleased with mine so as of yet I haven't cut up any of it, it is just a large piece of work!

 It's not very easy to see the quilting on the front unless you look at closely but you can see it on the back better!

 The back, little quilted birds!

Using a spare piece I also made a little wall hanging for my best friends birthday, it was disharged again, then printed over and quilted.

And Bound! Hope she liked it! 

Lastly a little bag I made using one of keyka lou's wonderful patterns that I had bought. I cannot recommend her patterns enough, they are easy to understand and use. Just great :-)

Ooohh actually lastly (hehe) I printed some fabric one afternoon with mum, this was my favorite piece, using thermofax screens purchased from Ineke on hand dyed fabric that mum and I made on a previous messy afternoon a few years ago!

Enjoy Kellye xxx