Fresh summery prints from Prints Charming - they feel so lovely - the weave of the fabric is so smooth and fine.
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Cute Japanese fabric from Quilters Barn from our last road trip.
………..on a Monday morning like this lady - better late than never. We had our neighbours around for Christmas drinks last night so I was too tired to do Sunday stash by the time they left!
These are my stash of Christmas fabrics gathered over the years - and still waiting to be made up into something festive - there’s always next year!
Our end of year celebration this year was brunch. We had more people come to that than any UFO night during the year (LOL!) But it was fun.
Dale set us a challenge for this year, the rules being:
1. Everyone was given a fat quarter.
2. You need to incorporate this into a completed project by this time next year.
3. You cannot add this into an existing project.
4. You can choose to show this project as you go along or keep it a secret until the ‘unveiling’.
5. The project can be big or small, anything you want, but needs to be completed by our Christmas breakup next year.
This is my fabric…………
Lots of ideas, now just need to put one of them into practice!
I can’t believe it’s Sunday again! This week has just flown - but I have worked about 30 hours this week in between a School Dinner, Work Party, 40th birthday, Music Concert, organising the craft for a Christmas program at church, having good friends who now live about 4 hours away stay for the night and spending a morning in the city with a lovely friend who is back in Australia from Germany and meeting her gorgeous baby! (But I did manage to squeeze in that fun relaxing day visiting some patchwork shops). And that’s where I picked up today’s Sunday Stash. These two fabrics are from a gorgeous range that Julie has designed herself. Her quilt made from them is on the front cover of the current issue of Quilters Companion.
I was thinking of some cushions for the back bedroom at Sewjourn - will match the yet to be made quilts for the beds and the small quilt hanging on the wall.
Happy to be posting Sunday Stash on the correct day this week - for a list of other players head over here - thanks Tamara for hosting.
The start of December tomorrow signals the start of getting ready to celebrate Christmas at our house - decorations, cooking, cards, gifts and (hopefully) taking the time to reflect on what Christmas means to us. Our decorations will go up over the next few days so I plan on sharing a few of the special ones with you……would love to see what special decorations anyone else has to share.
……..and they just seem to get better! Accompanied by lots of fun, chatter and laughing we set off again today, our aim to visit some lovely patchwork shops and spread the word about Sewjourn! First stop was Patchwork Passion in Cranbourne - we even arrived before the shop was open but the lovely owner let us in. Then we headed to Craft Quarters at Koo Wee Rup. Here we also discovered the gorgeous Something Shabby Something Chic which was a treasure trove of goodies - we were well behaved though with only one little jug coming home with us. (Note to self: need to go back here one day soon!)
And last but certainly not least was the always divine Quilters Barn at Loch. What a great way to spend a day…..and have a few more things to show in Sunday Stash!
Unlike Lara and Bronwyn I didn’t manage to post Sunday Stash on the correct day this week! Partly because I didn’t get back from Lancefield until after 10pm last night. Had a great weekend though - while Mal went on a Golf Weekend with 15 other dads from school a friend and I (and 6 girls) took advantage of the fact that Sewjourn was free this weekend.
The plan was to make (and write) all our Christmas Cards - and the girls were so keen they were over in the studio in their pjs on Sunday morning.
Well, I didn’t get all my cards made but did make some good progress………
As for my stash - here’s a pretty one that I bought from Foothills Fabric and Threads a year or more ago.
From Swell by Urban Chicks. It’s the only fabric I have although I love their whole range. Lots of the decorating at Sewjourn is based around their previous range, ‘Blossom’ and their newest range ‘1974′ is gorgeous too.
Here’s some more photos and inspiration from The Evening with Amy Butler - if you are in Sydney and don’t have tickets yet it’s well worth the effort! She talked us through a slide show of what inspires her and then answered questions and even signed books and chatted. As usual all the goodies made from her beautiful fabrics were gorgeous.
