Sunday Stash - Red and White

It's a long weekend here in Australia so I'm making this post short and sweet. I purchased this fabric last month from Craft Depot - a great local quilting shop. It was simply called Redworks. I was looking for something for a Christmas quilt but liked the idea of red and white then the quilt could be used all year round and not packed away once the festive season was over.

I bought 2 of the fat quarter bundles there was 8 fabrics to a bundle and also some yardage for sashing and a border.

I already have a design in mind which I was lucky enough to have accepted by one of the Australia Quilting magazines for their Christmas edition which will be on sale in September.

It's Sunday so I'm linking up with Molli Sparkles Sunday Stash weekly linky party.

Till next time.....happy sewing....

Sunday Stash - Solstice

I was lucky enough to pick up a bundle of fat eighths on special of Solstice by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics. This is a lovely Christmas range and perfect for all those Christmas projects. There are 32 prints in the range with the main colours centering around red, green and blue. There is also a few creams added to the mix.

For my project I picked out the prominent red and green fabrics and will be making a quilted wall hanging with these.

I can't believe I am already making Christmas projects, have you started thinking about yours yet?

It's Sunday so I'm linking up with Molli Sparkles Sunday Stash weekly linky party.

Till next time.....happy sewing....

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

So it's that time of year again when we creative types think we should make something Christmassy - well I do anyway. So my mum always has Christmas Day lunch at her house and has the most amazing tree so I thought what better to show off the tree than a beautiful Christmas tree skirt.

I went to my local and picked up some Christmas fabric.

I couldn't go past these cute little skaters. I decided to do some traditional star blocks and incorporate them into a tree skirt.

This picture is just before I quilted it all up - just some simple 'stitch in the ditch' quilting for this one. I ended up binding it with a red store bought bias tape which probably wasn't the best decision as it creased a lot and was difficult around the corners but I was running out of time to make my own so had to make do.

And finally under the tree in all it's glory.

I should also share the whole tree seeing my mum spends so much time putting the decorations up - isn't it beautiful.