Cutest Little Suffolk Puffs

This is a lovely little doll's quilt mae by Sue in our Saturday class.  The puffs are 1/4 inches across - tiny, tiny.  And - Sue is a busy working lady.   Where does she find the time. 

This is Leela (Tuesday night class) - her specialty is 1/4 inch hexagons and diamonds - all paper pieced.  Her work in always beautiful - she frames her work in white frames and they look amazing.

Free Paper Toys- vintage Fun

Found this and just had to put it on my Blog - it's a great site for ideas and projects for children (and big kids too)
http://www.thetoymaker.com/

The perfect craft studio

We all dream of having the perfect place to go when we create - where all around us inspires us and our creative thoughts just keep flowing because all around you is everything you dreamed of.....

Here is '"mine'' - I wish it could be mine.  It belongs to a very lucky lady Sandy Foster from My Shabby Streamside Studio.  Follow the link posted here and enjoy looking at all her hard work and how beautiful her little studio is.  I am sure she is very proud of her creation - I know I would be.   Hopefully she won't mind me using some of her photos to show you how lovely it is.

http://myshabbystreamsidestudio.blogspot.com/2009/12/o-christmas-tree_30.html

Maybe many of you have already been here, but those of you who haven't will surely be as envious as I am (in a very nice way).

Enjoy.

http://myshabbystreamsidestudio.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-york-times-interview.html

Pop-up Books

One of my favourite things from childhood was a beautiful pop up book of Sleeping Beauty.  I can still recall the pages, but the one that stays with me is Sleeping Beauty asleep waiting for the prince.  It was a beautiful pop up with lots of pink roses tumbling down above her, over the castle walls, and rambling along the ground.  I wish I still had that book.

But we didn't realise that we had to keep everything - that one day it would again be fashionable, or is it just that we get a little nostalgic?   Does it mean I don't throw out all my clothes that are too small??    Not that I think I will every fit into them ever again (big sigh) - no matter how hard we try, we will never again have our girlish figures of our youth (another big sigh).   Now I'm depressing myself........  Let's look at the pretty picture and cheer up.

UFOs - finished - hurrah!!

We all have UFOs - our minds work overtime (well mine does) while working on one project, we are already thinking of that project we saw in a magazine, or dreamed up in our heads, or that wonderful new fabric we saw (or bought).  But how to finish them all....  Have surgery and 6-8 weeks of taking it easy!!

This table centre is made from jelly rolls, and I had been putting off doing the binding.  Finally took the bull by the horns and added pink binding (cut on the cross to make it easier) and am really glad of the finished product.  Looks good in the kitchen.....  It came from a pattern by American Jane - go here to look at their patterns.   http://americanjane.com/

Go here to see the original quilt...

I have been working on this painting since attending a workshop with Chris Whipper a few months ago.  No chance to finish it - but now I think it is finished.   I have enjoyed the journey, and look forward to hubby framing this piece.  It is quite large and we have lots of really old large skirting boards which I love using for framing - they are white, chipped and cracked but look amazing as frames for paintings. 

This teapot was a workshop piece at a conference I attended last year (yes not finished) and all it needed was oiling to seal it.   It's done! 

Well, I still have a few to go, but having to take it easy for awhile I have been able to finish a few.  Know what's good about this?  I can start NEW ones!!

Just had to share this StAsH

http://the-latebloomer.blogspot.com/

I hope this blogger - Elizabeth Scott - doesn't mind me using her photo but I found this to be just out of this world. I wish my stash was so organised. I try so hard to keep both home and the shop organised with my stashes but when you go looking for something, fabric goes flying in all directions.

I can't tell you how many times a customer has come in looking for a particular colour, and I end up fossicing through my own stash 'cause I know I have the right colour in there. Mind you, there are some I will not part with for anything, and these are the ones I can't cut up. Isn't that awful to think you buy this fabric because you love it so and then the only thing you can do with it is walk around with it and pat it........ is anyone else like this??

Is this a little like hubby buys great tools and leaves them in the box unused????