Looking Back

Looking back to the year 2011, here  are few collages of what crafts I have completed in 2011.
I may say I had quite a busy days last year. This year, I want to be more serious on doing patcwork and quilting. Didn't I told you that I have joined the Indian Modern Quilt Guild? *yay*...I'm very excited to learn and share with like-minded people. And so far it's been very exciting & enlightning, if I may say..

I bought few felt when I went home in 2010 and start trying doing felt craft when I don't do anything else.

and at times I love making small dresses for my niece or my friend's daughter or make few stuff for my friends:)

or try making other things. I used to love making bag and pouches and I still do have few patterns which I wanted to try making. Hopefully this year I will be able to make them :)

Happy Crafting ^_^

Pinwheel quilt again

I love pinwheel patchwork.

I got one from my friend for our personal SWAP




Then I made pinwheel placemats  for a friend in Indonesia 

and now I'm making another pinwheel patchwork...will update the photo once I finished the binding ;)

Until then, have a great crafty weekends ^__*

I love maple leaves

I always love autumn colors and the January challenge of India MQG is making stuff (patchwork) with WARM SOLID  colors. I was chatting with Mbak Hany and told her about the challenge and she showed me one of her new stash. It was pretty fabric with autumn leaves. That what really hit me. I started browsing and found one tutorial on maple leaf block from Country Lane Quilts. Based on that I made this mini quilt.

as a table top

Burnt Orange at the back

 a touch of green to show the life of a maple leaf from green to orange..though I'm not sure if it's gone through Red phase ;) 

once more 

Working with solid colors is quite fun. To mix and match the  color is quite a challenge it self. I think in the end, your quilt shows your moods :)

Until then...Happy Crafting :)

Look what I got in the mail

Look !! Look!!...what I got in the mail today
I bought this from Etsy . I love all the cuteness in the book, I even tried making one pouch

 and diary cover for my self

I just can't wait to try one of the patterns, but meanwhile, let me finish my maple first *wink wink*

FriendShip Quilt

These are my blocks for Heart to Heart Friendship Quilt. It's a collaboration work I'm having with few of my Indonesian friends. The quilt will go for auction for charity. The theme was HEART in Pastel. So this is what I come up with. Can't wat to see the end result, since all the participants made very pretty blocks.

Welcome 2012

and I made gift for my self  ^__^ :  2012 Diary with my handmade cover :).

I hope to make a whole lot of good crafty memories in this diary..;)

Happy New Year everyone

christmas gift

I made these 2 christmas stockings for my friend Agnes. it was a little hurried. In the beginning I thought of making patchwork stockings but I did't get much time. I hope those could cheer her up a bit since she celebrated it away from her family. I'm sorry if it arrived a bit late, Agnes..U know the story..ha ha..Next year must make it a lil early and hopefully can make for my other friends too...:)

My affair with Felt

I made these specs covers last week.  It's easy peasy one. I made it while I'm browsing the net :) Added a bit of embroidery, buttons or applique flowers and voila..3 cute fetl specs covers. Inside I put thick flannel win cheery yellow. I hope I can list these sooner in the SHOP

Cushion Parade

I was cleaning my fabric stash and found a heap of 1/2 meter fabrics. I love shopping  fabric scraps ..well..scratch that..I love fabric shopping. Any day!!

And what a better way to dispose all these pretty fabrics than turn them into simple cushion covers. I still have few piles to make. I used casement fabric for the back and it's envelope closure..:)

the cupcake story

I'm not very lucky when it comes to baking a cake. somehow the consistency is never right. so far I only succeeded in baking brownies and caramel cakes.
I have been wanted to have blueberry cupcake for sometimes, and one day I was chatting with my childhood friend in my blackberry and we talked about cooking and baking. i visited her blog and there it is the blueberry cupcake with the recipes. so for the last 2 days I have been baking cupcakes and it turned out soo yummy...

Not Handmade by Me :-)

I marvel at the vibrant of Indian crafts which available a plenty in the market. I imagines it must have been handmade by some group of people somewhere from fabric scraps and they made it into beautiful vibrant crafts.

One of those are these pretty bags you can collect as many you as want since it's very very cheap. Yet, it's sturdy and lasting. I saw most of the rural people here where I live, used these handmade bags for their daily errands, going to college, etc.

These ones I shop for a dear friend in Indonesia who wants to open a shop and she wanted something Indian with bright colours. I still have more to shop *yay* and believe me I can spend hours in the market LOL..

Let me know if you want one too...:)

Past and current projects

I made these before I went for holiday. I used vintage Simplicity pattern. The pattern is easy to follow. I did a little change there. First I don't line the yoke. Since the pattern is one size bigger than my actual size so, I simply remove the opening at the back and made it without any opening which was work out fine because the neckline is quite broad for my big head *grin*

Besides, I made additional sleeves here. the original pattern has a ruffled sleeves, which I'm not very fond of.

and for the second one, I omitted the sleeves and it looks cuter *I guess*.

These two tops, is very comforable and roomy, esp during the hottest summer. I made a matching pj pants with the yellow one *sorry no photos*.

Meanwhile I managed to finish the pinwheel placemats (yay)..it took rather long to finish :(

and hopefully by the weekends I can start doing this collaboration project with my dear friend AGNES. She has done these pretty appliques and I will do the rest....And hopefully will be able to finish it within next month *fingers crossed*

the placemat story

Last week I was browsing youtube for free motion quilting and I tried on what suppose to be a placemat. I did the yellow flower quite sometimes back during those 'sewing-block' days..:D. It was just lying around so I decided to use it as a guinea pig ^__^.

It turned out quite....OK   naah...it was bad...especially the back part :(. I was thinking I'll use it as a duster (eewww) and just toss it into my "on going project" bin.

Last night, I wasn't feeling very well, but I'm aching to sew something just to distract my self from my boredom. I saw this one and start cutting. I thought I will make a mug rug with it, but then who needs mug rug when I already got a pretty one from my friend?  So instead I decided to make a goggles case. The other half, I thought of  making the same goggle case, but after several tossing and turning, I decided to make simple mobile phone case..

So, there you are...with one placemat you can make those things....what about you?


happy crafting ^_^

Pinwheel placemat

This is the 1st of 6 mats I'm currently doing. The progress is very slow though..and now with the boys having Durga puja vacations, my sewing time will take another backseat.

I hope we can go for a mini holiday to Shillong and if we do, I am planning for fabric shopping spree ;-)

Oh, and my son's teacher was asking me if I will participate in diwali mela in the school. Well....I'm thinking of doing it.   Let's see....

Sewing kit wallet

These are 2 quick projects I've done for ny DH's aunt. She wanted a simple sewing kit wallet for a gift. I made these based on tutorial posted on facebook by my friend:)

It's a good way to use up your scraps :)

One project too many

I'm the kind of person who likes doing several projects together. I get bored easily if I just doing one project at a time. I know this is very bad, cos then I'll have a lot of unfinished projects. Oh yeah I still do.

I'm currently working on my first big quilt project. I enrolled my self to Amanda Jean's 36 patch Quilt-a Long. Yes, I'm still doing it now.

And in between, I saw this nice quilt called "double nine patch" in a magazine and thought of doing a mini one. And guess what I did it!! *big green*. 

Then there are left overs patch from both the QAL and the mini quilt and I made these place mats:

And then, I decided to try the Ohio Star patchwork. So I picked up few fabrics and starts working on it and there it is the table runner.

for this one I used flannel as a batting which is much better than using thin foam which I used in the mini quilt. I should've known better. Anyway, I'm quite happy with these little projects that I've done, tomorrow it's time to get back to the QAL ^_^..

Until then....happy crafting ^__^

36 QAL in progress

I told you I participated in Amanda Jean's 36 Blocks QAL. So far I have done 16 blocks. 20 Blocks to go which I hope to finish it before Eid ^_^

CRAFTando: The 3rd week of giveaway - 3. Woche von unseren Ge...

CRAFTando is  having giveaway every week for a month!!..what a fun way to celebrate her sewing journey. She gives away fabulous stuff...so why not rush there and submit your entry?? ...I won one already...\^_^/
 This is what she gives away THIS WEEK:

and this is what I won last week (yay)

Good Luck folks...