Putting Alice together

I've made the Alice quilt top. Whoops! I have accidentally cut some off in the photo.... You will have to wait for next time!

Next, I plan to embellish with applique. After it is quilted I want to do more embellishing...

I'm pretty happy with the results of my day off...

Remembering Alice

I've been playing around with the Alice in Wonderland fabrics. The fabrics have a lot of depth and warmth with the borders around.This is what I have designed so far... I don't want to plan too much, too far ahead, I want to let it see where it takes me - in the style of Lewis Carroll himself.

I think it's going to be a nice size for the lap, or the wall or the couch (maybe even a cot quilt).

I don't think one chooses the Alice fabrics because they have a baby quilt in mind. I think they love the fabrics, and the story, and then they will turn them into a quilt for a gift or to keep themselves.

I hope I have enough leftover fabric to make a library bag.

Six geese a-wandering

These geese aren't quite ready for laying yet... they need some more nest material and some embroidery in the background. I'm getting around to it.. I promise! But, if I don't feel like doing it, I will work on something else...

It's a start.

All I have done so far is add borders around some of the pics in the Alice In Wonderland fabrics. I am rapt! What a great start to a new quilt.

The fabrics have richness and depth.

Just wait 'til I get more put together! Still, it's a start...

I just love it when...

Ta-da!

A finished quilt! The gypsy girl quilt is completed.

Mum quilted it with strawberries, leaves and strawberry flowers... She calls it "Strawberries and Cream". What a good name!!

I am designing a little quilt from the Alice in Wonderland fabric now. I just have to use it!!

Here come the geese

I did mention I should be working on the 12 Days Of Christmas quilt, but all I have done is applique on the birds!!

There is quite a bit of embroidery to do. However, I have been sidetracked. My Gypsy Girl quilt is back and I am attaching the binding.

I'm also really tired. Maybe it's the onset of Winter? But it has made me want to go to bed earlier of late...

So, this is all the show and tell I have for now.

Suffering

I am suffering from sewing withdrawals!! That's 3 nights in a row without sewing!

Mind you, I have been planning and designing some new pieces....

This little stitchery is a healing heart made for a friend. That's me in the beanie (it's cold today!!). This stitchery design is from the "Wish Quilt" by Bronwyn Hayes - it was a serial pattern in Homespun magazine a couple of years ago.

I want to work on the 12 Days Of Christmas tonight. I still have borders to finish.