April 2010

Trees represent freedom, change of season, growth, age, renewal – so many good things …

1. DQS8 , 2. The Birdies flew to ME!!, 3. dqs8 received, 4. Autumn Tree quilt for the Four Seasons quilt swap, 5. Triptych – Autumn, 6. Harriet’s Doll Quilt, 7. Quilt for Doll Quilt Swap #7, 8. Finished Doll Quilt, 9. DQS4, 10. DQS8, 11. DQS8 sent to emma louise, 12. Your’s on the left, Mine on the right!, 13. Spring, 14. green tree mini quilt, 15. Colorful Tree Mini Quilt, 16. Doll Quilt Swap 8

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Red pepper quilts has a neato tute showing a simple way to align the quilt sandwich. [great mini quilt too!]

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Everyone loves birds – and they appear in mini quilt designs quite frequently – there are more than a couple in my book Whip Up Mini Quilts… here are some mini quilts featuring birds …

1. Linen Partridge Hanging, 2. Yellow bird, 3. Little Red Bird, 4. black bird mini with frame, 5. Two Birds – Mini Art Quilt, 6. birds @ my door, 7. wash day, 8. Kookaburra mini quilt (2007), 9. For the Birds, 10. Doll quilt II., 11. Bird on a Branch, 12. DQS 8 Finished, 13. from Laura, 14. Ballerina Star Doll Quilt, 15. Corn Head Girl, 16. Take It Forward Challenge January 2008. 7jpg

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jacqui shows us how to make up a custom-sized cosy for mugs that are wider at the top than the bottom, especially ones without handles. It’s easy enough to make them for regular sized cups (plus there’s a few patterns out there) but nothing for those of us with odd-sized mugs! Total discrimination ;) So I’ve written up the really easy way to get a pattern for your own mug, handle-less or not, and included a couple of the ones I’ve made for inspiration.

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Don’t you just love this rainbow dinosaur quilt by Katie. And there’s a free pattern and dinosaur embroidery designs – how cool!

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Lia has so many good ideas that she shares on her crafty blog – some recent tutorials include a scaley pouch, a house bag, a flower purse and robot diaper bag.

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In honour of the release of my very first ever book Whip Up Mini Quilts we have been having mini quilt month on whipup. So many gorgeous mini quilts – stop on by to check out it out.

Check out all the archives to mini quilt month here – learn about the contributors, get patterns and tutorial and some lovely mini quilt eye candy…

Its not all about Mini quilts though – lots of other funtastic crafty stuff …

  • WOW: … crochet zigzag baby blanket goldfish softie
  • REFASHION: … I love this jersey necklace dress from a shirt kids refashion – t-shirt to dress
  • QUICK-FIX CRAFTS: … Laptop sleeve try your hand at mosaicmooshy belly softie soft baby felt bootiesSew Liberated spring felt birdie garland colors quilt recycled re-usable sandwich bagspatchwork pencil pouch diy baby sling folded notebookrecycled felt coasters
  • QUIRKY: … this pleated paper top hat is incredible … newspaper butterfly wreath
  • BOOK: … Fairy tale knitsI love patchwork nicky epsteins flowers
  • Happy crafting!
    Kathreen
    xxx

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    LOVE the use of washi tape here. Link to tutorial.

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    How super sweet. Link to tutorial.

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    Love love this crochet baby blanky – so colourful and textured – sure to be a winner - get the full instructions here. [thanks ina for sending in the link]

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