Another wedding gift!

Another one of my lovely friends got married last week and I was lucky enough to be a bridesmaid again! It was such a brilliant day, great fun and everything about the day reflected her style and personality perfectly.

As a wedding gift for the happy couple, and a reminder of the day, I designed and cross stitched a sampler style momento. The colours and patterns match themes from the wedding day, as well as embroidering the place and date of the wedding at the bottom.

I love the simplicity of this idea and would love to eventually offer a customised wedding or baby cross stitch sampler on my Etsy shop... Pick two colours, a few different themes and a message and away I go! What do you think?

Wedding Quilt

Earlier this year my best and oldest friend got married and I was privileged enough to be one of her bridesmaids. I've known her since I was three years old, and we were in the same school class as each other all the way from nursery through to college. It's for this reason I wanted to get her something meaningful. I decided to make her a patchwork quilt... with three weeks to go until the wedding.

Despite working late nights and weekends on it, needless to say, I didn't finish it in time! But three months later it was finally finished and here it is...

I wanted to create something that was traditional and modern and old and new. The design is a traditional type pinwheel quilt, but the colours I chose are fresh and contemporary. The fabrics are a mixture of new and old vintage fabrics I had got from my Grandma.

I also hand embroidered a little keepsake ticket and attached it to the back of the quilt, as a reminder of the day.

First Quilt Finished

I don't suppose anyone remembers this post about a quilt I was working on nearly three years ago? Well believe it or not, it finally got finished and now adorns the bed in my guest room. These lovely sunny pictures were taken on a beautiful summer's day, back in July 2011...

From First Quilt Finished

From First Quilt Finished

I've not started another one, until recently... but more on that soon.

Oil Colour Inspiration

You know when you see a random painting, or other thing of beauty, that just makes you want to crack out the oil paints, dust off that sewing machine or sharpen your scissors. Today that thing was this painting, by Christina Renfer Vogel. I love the colours and light, it made me smile, but more importantly it made me want to paint again.

Long time coming...

It's been too long. A lot has happened since I last posted. I bought a house and got a promotion at work, all of which has contributed towards having absolutely no spare time for crafts and blogging. But anyway, enough of the excuses, I am now ready to start posting again about everything that's happened over the past two years and everything that will be happening in future! Stay tuned...