I have been busy with gift boxes 1st picture shows what the box looks like before being put together 2nd pic shows the different stages before closed with fancy ribbon and 3rd pic shows how it looks when flooded for travelling. The pattern of beer mug is

Life has just got in the way of my sewing so have not done as much as I would have liked so this is how far my quilt is. Have estimated that I would need approximately 30 more blocks oh boy I have really done it this time I hope it does not get too heavy

Have been working on another quilt for my bed all paper pieced and quilt as you go. Some places quilted ith others free motion quilting 1st pic centre piece 2nd and 3rd two more blocks not yet been quilted have lots of blocks to go but no time limit 3rd p

My eldest wanted the same table runner I made for my youngest but different colours of course so here it is

Finished all my playful balls. Redid the red one and positioned the face higher up so you can see his smiling face, dont you just like the angry one

Last lot of goodies for the charity box, bath sponges and dolls sleeping bags. I used oval sponges for most of the shapes these were done ith the dolls sleeping bags were made using bits of donated fabric. What do I do now?..?

I hope you are not bored with my efforts for the charity box more to come these are stuffies made in 5 x7 hoop

Gdaughter modelling the hairbands I made for the charity box I used fancy organza for the flowers and sewed them on an organza ribbon made from the same fabric sewed the flowers on with gold crochet cotton using french knots one yellow set I used fsl flo

Ok I am back have sewed together a red fun ball this time I used only 4 segments and positioned arms lower down. What do you think the blue or red I also sewed in a hanger

Attention all the talented cuties please help me I have been making playful balls (a different version on my snow balls) but cant decide whether to leave the long arms as they are or to make them smaller and position them differrntly as shown in photo I a

Table runner for daughter the colours do not show properly but are purple and dark grey, quilting done ith

Inspiration by Sue/spendlove Sue 's ith quilt blocks the first project done on my new machine. I was pleasantly surprised just how easy these blocks went together I think my favourite is the pineapple , the quilting on the middle panel was done free hand

I have been away for a while working on another project which I have almost finished but taking a break now and thought I would show you the gifts a made last year for the Christmas shoe box charity drive. This year I will do differerent things have got

Snowballs for our table last year. The gold beads are there to catch the candle wax. made a hole through the snowballs and pushed the candle through then put the candle in some hot wax in a small glass. The pointsettia are from Leanne. The s.balls were d