Handprinted Swap III

It was so exciting waiting for the parcels from overseas to drop through the letterbox, knowing that they contain handprinted fabric from the swap.

It's amazing how different they all are.

these remind me of swirly clouds, from Charlotte 

 the slightly mad quilt lady

I love all the different clouds in this from 

Holly - bamboo bear

gorgeous keys from Carolyn  - telltale thread

Thank you swap partners! Now, what to make with them?

handprinted fabric swap III

The handprinted fabric swap, hosted by Leslie from Maze and Vale was great fun, as I thought it would be. Nothing like a deadline to get me to make a final choice and stick with a design.

I made acetate templates and printed the pebbles randomly onto the fat quarter, once dried I added the ladders over the top in a diferent colour.

Theses two are my favourite, I did them in colours to suit my swap partners and I love them. 

I think less is more, the red ones have too many circles, sorry partner! You live and learn right?!

all ready to go (they left before the deadline, just slow at posting about it)

I can hardly wait to see what will be dropping through my door, it's so exciting. 

You can see what everyone else has been up to over on flickr.

Playing along with Creative Spaces.

something different

My blogging these days is very erratic, I'm going to stop apologising for it. 

I have done a little sewing though. I made some bunting for Annie a while ago and I didn't know what to do with the leftovers (I got carried away with cutting triangles).

Simpatico is a really modern print, though not my usual style. So I've pieced the traingles together and this will become a charity quilt, not sure where it's going yet, but I hope it will bring someone some comfort when it's finished.

I love how it's turning out, it's so good to be out of my comfort zone too, it has shown me some many other options. 

The strips in the top picture will be the binding. If you love the fabric, you can still get some here.

Check out some other creative spaces here.

a new list

Feeling refreshed and raring to go again, I have a new creative list, things I would like to make and do this year. I did one last year and managed to complete most of the tasks, the curtain and the clothes for me didn't happen, fancy.

Armed with some juicy fabrics, from here, I will be printing onto the solids and diving into the list...

a quilt each for the girls (gulp)

a couple more cushions

a dress or two for me

a skirt for me

2 sets of curtains (which I loathe doing)

clothes for these ever growing children

make more progress on the bullseye

(see below)

develop some new designs for screen printing

have a go at an embroidery collage for the wall

make a magic potion that doubles the number of hours in a day

I know that is an impossible list, but you never know!...

The Bullseye, this is a slow project. It's my on-the-go project. It comes with me on the occassional tube journey and I pick it up while watching the girls at their swimming lessons. I am almost one year on from starting it, I may not have done loads, but I LOVE it, my circles are fairly ripply, but I can live with that. 

What are your creative plans for the year? Tell me you have impossible goals too, please! 

Playing along with my creative space.

Giveaway Winner

Wow this was fun!
Thanks to SewMamaSew for hosting.

Thank you all for taking the time to leave such lovely comments, so are you ready for a winner??

There were 366 eligible entries, Random did the honours and the winner is.... 

which is Ducks and Rabbits who chose the hexadots, congratulations!
I'm e-mailing you for your address, so expect a parcel heading your way soon.

I so enjoyed reading all your comments I thought I'd share the love and happiness and offer you all 15% off all purchases in my shop for the next 10 days, enter the code happy15 at the checkout.

We are putting up the tree tomorrow, I'm finally starting to feel Christmassy and get a wee bit excited, yay! Have a great weekend. x