New to Me !! March

Not great pics but  well i will blame the light at this time of year!!
i have been making soaps ........not with great vats of boiling stull just melt and pour i bought all my tuff from ebay and that was it follow the instuction and marvell how many you get out of a quarter of your  block 

some lovely cellophane bags a bit of ribbon and they look fab ......................thinking of small things for christmas....................i am linking this up tt Fiona

Paper Piecing again this can be found Here in Tutorials it is tricky but well worth it ...................do you ask why is she doing all these !!,.................probably  not ............FMQ practice so i have something at the end
and it is working !! 

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these two found http://quietplay.blogspot.co.uk/p/and-sew-on-paper-pieced-bom.html
they are free for the month they are published then they go on to be sold on Craftsy 9 altogether i missed the first so will buy that to finish off the set .

Now this i put together wrong the red should be leaning on the yellow not fliying and the strip of spots should be background !! hey ho didnt notice till i had bound it .............oh dear :))

This is the so far of my MSMS3 swap i dont know if it will be a wall hanging or pillow cover yet 

BLOGLOVIN!!

just to say i am going along with a lot of you to Bloglovin !!

Lots of Paper Piecing

 just a quick post this has been sitting over a week to be posted these blocks are for Carol

i can say they were tricky to do :)))

as you can see from this one it looks like i have nibbled it ...............and it really p  ed me off big time but i got over it .................just :))

These are solids for one of my  Swaps 

This was made for the International Quilting Day that i went to we had to make blocks in white black and lime green weeeell green is not a colour i have in abundance and i found a bit just enough for the star points so that was it made i must have got the green from a swap when we get a fat quarter of scraps !!

Any how i was asked to pattern test this woollie for Rumi i had three attempt at it before i was happy with it 

have not got a pic of the good one though !!

On a whim i thought i would do this wow how i love it  i found it via Maria Here if you all want to have a go !!  i think the feet are the worst bit
i will let you know all about our International Quilting Day next time
Linda x

Little Bit Of Fabric

I ordered these from Brenda i have no greens ...............i am not a green lover but sometimes you need it !!

no brown either  these are fat 8th bundle

These i picked up on ebay from Pippa she has some cute fabrics go and have a look :))) and has a very swift  delivery :)))

Fabric cut for Carol March is her month in the Star Bee 

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Little bit of paper piecing............i sent this to my friend Lynda with a couple of tea bags and some twix we always had tea together when i was in Scotland and we miss our tea times :(((( the pattern for this is from Rumi Here

This is the newby and i am loving using it  you might have seen it in the last post but i thought i would show again ............i still have not read all of the instruction book it is huge !!

Cute stitches

I forgot to seperate the letters of my name 

Another shot of the flowers in the kitchen getting a bit crowded on there as they go over i am repotting and hope i can keep them to flower next year outside !!

These are out at Mums Lynda sent them to her for Christmas and they are really lovely

do you want to be in  swap !!!!! get over to see Fiona and Sam http://www.flickr.com/groups/craftycooksapronswap/

it is a Apron  and Recipe and i think it will be a lot of fun come on sign up :)))

Linda x

Scrappy

Well i was going to tell you all about my new sewing machine but i got all involved in scrapping i saw this post and i just got going !!http://quiltinggallery.com/2013/02/20/tutorial-scrappy-herringbone-quilt-block/
These 3 are the first that i made .....................i use printing paper not fancy pants stuff that costs !! just use a small stitch so it tears easy ,these are sewn together  

Now these below are made in the same way but i used one sheet of paper for  4 blocks quick and easy to do
the  Quality St is empty by the way :)))))

dont you think they are cute

I have made 16 today !!!

and busted a lot of scraps :)))

so it is a w.i.p and hopefully one day it might be a quilt .............for free !! now that i like :))

I have been wanting one of these ,do you see that i have put the bit round the rim on the out side instead of the inside ...............i dont seem to be able to read the pattern started putting it in the right place thought it was wrong then re-read after !!and it should be inside oh well looks ok this is the pattern Here

By the way this is the new machine and so far i love it ,love the thread cutter it is great not having all those threads when paper piecing it has got loads of fancy stuff good size throat 9 1/2 inchesi have been using it just over a week so lots to learn yet and will let you know what i like or dont like soon but so far all good i read loads of reviews till my eyes crossed for all manner of machine it is not easy to decide........................it is quiet too


linda x