Ta Da!

I got up early this morning and finished the binding on this one. I think this is the one I have enjoyed doing the most, I let myself get completely carried away on embellishing the sea using old ribbon, my late Mother-in law's lavender bag, selvage edges of satin fabric, etc...
I have noticed that I only tend to make a card or textile hanging of the season we are in, I have no interest at the moment of doing any snow scenes or autumnal pictures. At the moment my head is full of beaches, beach huts, seaside houses and country meadow views.
I am on holiday before long up to the West coast of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides....plenty of inspiration there I think!

Just a peep!

This is just a peep at what I am working on at the moment, it's very nearly done and is a beach/coast view.
This afternoon I get together with some other creative friends and we spend time sewing, chatting, giving each other ideas, drinking tea and eating home-made cakes or biscuits. Hopefully I will complete this wallhanging this afternoon.

P.S. Update, I didn't finish it, in fact I hardly did any at all, we all chatted, laughed and the afternoon just whizzed by!

Inspiration and buttercup fields

I think this lovely field may be my next inspiration for a landscape fabric picture, the colours are so nice . I think there are more meadows around now than there used to be and they all look beautiful. My Mum made these little mini purses for my daughter and I. They are supposed to be hung in the car to hold change for car parks. They are really nice and made in satin fabric.

This is a quilt for a baby that I made for no particular reason, just fun.

Completed!

If you look at these pictures you can see what has been neglected as I spent time doing these wallhangings instead.....the garden!
I have so enjoyed making these and will start another one today hopefully with some of the fabric given to me for my birthday last week.

I finished sewing the binding on this one during the 10 O'Clock news last night....it was a welcome escape from all the depressing political news at the moment.
Well, off to mow the lawn now!

Vintage and Handmade Fair & landscape pictures

These three are the latest works in progress, I'm trying to get all the machine bits done now so that I can take them on holiday in a few weeks time and do the hand embroidery there.

This one is based on a place I saw when on holiday in Wales last year called Abereron, the houses were all different colours. My family says it looks more like Tobermory on the children's TV programme! I have still to do the borders on this one.
The last one is a bluebell wood, I have used different colour netting and fabrics and wools to make the texture. I will do a tree canopy in wools and chiffon I think.

These are fun to make as no two are ever the same.

Changing the subject I went to the Vintage and handmade Fair in Chipping Sodbury on Saturday, it was lovely although very crowded...but that is good for the stall holders! The teas and cakes served on delicate vintage china looked wonderful but we didn't try any as the queue was long and no seats so we had another look round instead!

I was very restrained and only bought a couple of magazines and some very pretty ribbon. I hope they all did well as they had all put such alot of effort into it.