My Blogiversary Giveaway Winner Is...

The lovely and local Cat of Cat Taylor Designs. Congratulations Cat!
Thank you everyone who left me such lovely Birthday wishes.
I got lots of lovley gifts for my Birthday, but I have to say the most thoughtful was this magazine from my darling husband. I always dread getting magazines as presents, because they aren't usually my taste. But my husband really truely got it right this time. He said he stood there for ages trying to choose which one to get, and chose this one because it has an article in it about Amy Butler, I'm so proud of him for knowing who that is.

My Creative Space...

Winter is closing in on us in NZ and feeling the cold coming I have been busy sewing clothes for the kids this week.

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Happy Birthday To Me!

Yip I'm another year older today - yipee! My sweetheart husband surprised me by taking the morning off work so we could go out for breakfast. And now I am about to go and bake myself a cake (the pic above is from last year), for the kids sake that is, I’m not partial to banana cake with chocolate icing at all!

But, something you probably don’t know is that exactly a year ago today I started my blog. Yip, it’s my blogiversary too! So what kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t have a giveaway to celebrate my blogiversary and all my lovely crafty bloggy friends that come and visit me? All you have to do is leave me a nice comment, the nicest comment wins! No just kidding I’ll use a random number generator thingy bob. Oh what will you win? How about one of my Peg Pinny Aprons?

Entries now closed! Thanks ladies for your lovely comments, I will announce the winner tomorrow (26 March)

My Creative Space...

I am working on another softie today. I didn't have a pattern for a nice doll so I am going free style. Not sure how the head is going to look, I hope she doesn't look like an ailen.

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Introducing Hector Giraffe

Isn't he sweet! I have made him for my nephew who is only five days older than my Baby J. I have to say he was a lot of fun to make, and now I have an extensive list of softies I want to make. Although I did underestimate how hard it would be to stuff him.
He is from this softies book which I was given for Christmas.

Ooh La Lah

Check out this giveaway! But don't waste your time entering - she's mine!
Made by the very talented fellow kiwi girl, Jennie of A Little Vintage.
I am loving the fact that it is made from vintage Kiwiana fabric.

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This is a gift for a friend in Australia that has just had a baby boy with the initials C.E. It didn't work out as well as I thought it would, but it will do just fine. The fabric is a lovely thick muslin from the shop that must not be named, as is the dog fabric. I bought 110cm of muslin so it would be square, then did binding around the edges. I was going to use the dog fabric to make binding, then do the initials in plain blue, I think that would have been much cuter. Next time!

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Another Quilt Done!

I am very happy with this one. Now I have to make a queen size one for my mother and then I will finally move on to something a bit more challenging. I have to admit though, I love making these quilts, they are nice and easy, and I love the fact that I actually get it done.
Once again I used the tag idea from Red Pepper Quilts - it just finishes it off beautifully I think.

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I am busy hand stitching the binding on my quilt. I love doing the binding, it means "so nearly finished". Hopefully I will have this quilt in the post to my friend this weekend.

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