The Eternal Maker
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London + Liberty
Prepare yourself! I have a lot to show you so this will be a long post. I will start with goodies I got at the Festival of Quilts 2016 and then share some London holiday fun for those of you that are interested in my general life stuff!
First up were these incredible metallic zips from The Eternal Maker, honestly a photo can't capture how pretty these are. The zip tape is a beautiful sparkly black, they also have gold and silver.
I have been wanting an octagon acrylic template, so I snagged one along with some papers at Sew & Quilt. I'm looking forward to using these.
Both of these shops had gorgeous fabric ranges, I wasn't looking for fabric but it was really tempting! If you haven't already I recommend checking them out.
My wonderfully talented friend Nicky surprised me with an incredible gift. She knows I love Superman, she recently made her daughter an amazing bag and I proclaimed my love. This is literally one of the best gifts I have ever been given - handmade, by my friend, beautiful notebook cover with Superman fabric and a notebook!! She even gave me Superman scraps too. Thank you so so much Nicky ❤
Look at those clever fussy cut cover flaps and a pocket too. I will treasure it but also use it!
This past week I have been in London and part of the reason I didn't buy fabric at the festival was because I was saving myself for Liberty. It is the most incredible shop and even if the fabric isn't to your taste, if you are ever in London you must pay a visit!
That floor and all the displays could become fabulous quilt patterns!
I hotfooted it to the Haberdashery section...
If I could I would have bought everything and while I was tempted to go for some of the more recognisable classic prints I was really drawn to the new season fabrics and something more unusual.
In the background - top: Pebble Bay C bottom: Josue A
I got a little bundle too, admittedly because it had this pineapple print in it but it is nice to have a bit of variety too:
Painter's Meadow C
Mae
We had a lovely few days in London on our holidays. It was beautiful weather and we spent nearly all the time outdoors. We stayed right near Tower Bridge:
With a view of The Shard:
We walked through Potter's Fields every day and the kids loved these paint tube flower displays!
They thoroughly enjoyed our theatre trip to see The Scarecrow's Wedding at Leicester Square Theatre. It really was a great performance with brilliant songs!
We did some sightseeing...
Lots of walking...
Exploring and picnicking. Quite by chance we came across a wonderful performance by Zadie Xa - Linguistic Legacies and Lunar Exploration at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park.
They had the most fabulous costumes, bleached and appliqued!
We can only cast our evil together, so
(i tell you) we protect this space
With courage we kill the attempt to hate
on my crew all we spread is love
Good vibes only allowed on our cloud
and thrive off collected strength
Bad omens should only be cast down
the debris falls back to earth
Are you ready to come where we're going
it's a better way
If the earth is spared, only justice
to all living things (and everything alive)
will save you
Adapted from:
Alice Walker 'Only Justice Can Stop a Curse' (1982)
Wu-Tang 'M.E.T.H.O.D. MAN' (1994)
by Taylor Jayne Le Melle
Here is a snippet I recorded:
And then just afterwards we randomly encountered a helicopter right before it took off. The helicopter crew and Police officers that were there were so nice and the pilot shook hands with our kids. Very cool!
I was so thrilled to be able to capture it:
After all that excitement we are home, I've nearly done all the laundry and am looking forward to a bit of machine sewing.
le challenge - the rising sun
I made a much needed project for this challenge and it was easy to do to, in fact I managed it while the baby took a nap so a quick, handy and fun make! I chose to interpret the theme of the rising sun by using some of my Japanese fabric.
I've used this fabric basket pattern before it is by the lovely Ayumi of Pink Penguin, who happens to live in Tokyo.
The patchwork is made with some lovely Japanese fabric scraps, which I got a couple of years ago from the Eternal Maker, some other scraps that had been given to me in a swap and some of Karen's beautiful hand printed fabric. The bottom and lining are from Terry's Fabrics, lime and sage dotty curtain fabric. The handles are cotton webbing from the Village Haberdashery.
I made the patchwork squares larger than the pattern at 2.5" and enlarged the bottom section and lining accordingly. This means I can chuck more threads and little fabric scraps into it while I'm doing EPP or applique. It is nice to finally have a pretty bin and another tick off my FAL list!
Head over to le challenge to link up and see what everyone else made. If you want to join us a new theme will be announced tomorrow!
Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day and a great weekend! <3
FoQ, friends and a Japanese scrap giveaway!
** THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**
I think there's nothing better than meeting blog friends in real life... unless maybe you meet them at the Festival of Quilts and you get on with them even more than you thought.
I was lucky enough to meet up with the lovely Nat on Saturday in Birmingham. We literally spent so much time talking that we didn't see everything at the festival and I VERY nearly missed my train home - I had to rudely jump up and rush off - sorry Nat!! She was so wonderful and easy to talk to it was great fun.
We agreed to make our unborn babies little gifts and I was thrilled when I saw the beautiful owl hat she crocheted for me. Truly adorable!
For the pattern details and even better pictures, see Nat's post.
I made her a Buddy Rabbit from the book Dare to be Square by Boo Davis. I love this little guy and thanks to my friend Michala for suggesting it when I was thinking about what to make.
I used a cute, soft green gingham flannel for the main body and scraps for the tummy. I am so pleased she liked it :)
I have no pictures from the festival (so sorry Hadley!). I was enjoying the company of Susan, Nicky, Laura, Katy (Laura and Katy were both working super hard on the stands but it was nice to chat briefly) and Nat too much :)
I suggest looking at Susan's post for a glimpse at some of the quilts and a funny picture of Nicky and me and Nat with our bumps.
I did of course make some purchases...
I got a couple of lovely Liberty fat quarters - I have plans to make a red quilt and very little red fabrics!! So this is a good start:
A handy triangle ruler from Creative Grids:
And a two scrap bags of Japanese fabrics from The Eternal Maker. In fact there were so many in there that I thought I'd share and have a little giveaway:
You get all this! A couple are quite small scraps but great for paper piecing or little crafting accents, most of them are bigger than you see in this overlapping picture.
You get two chances to win:
**SORRY THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**
- leave a comment telling me your favourite thing to do with scraps
- followers of Charm About You get a second entry, use the buttons on the left to subscribe by email/RSS/GFC and just leave a comment telling me you have or do already!
**If you are a no reply blogger please include your email address in the comment - if there is no way to contact you the entry will not count**
The winner will be chosen on Friday 24th August by Mr random.org
Also make sure you stop by on Saturday because I'll be having yet another giveaway as part of the Quilter's Gallery Blog Hop!
Linking up:
I think there's nothing better than meeting blog friends in real life... unless maybe you meet them at the Festival of Quilts and you get on with them even more than you thought.
I was lucky enough to meet up with the lovely Nat on Saturday in Birmingham. We literally spent so much time talking that we didn't see everything at the festival and I VERY nearly missed my train home - I had to rudely jump up and rush off - sorry Nat!! She was so wonderful and easy to talk to it was great fun.
We agreed to make our unborn babies little gifts and I was thrilled when I saw the beautiful owl hat she crocheted for me. Truly adorable!
For the pattern details and even better pictures, see Nat's post.
I made her a Buddy Rabbit from the book Dare to be Square by Boo Davis. I love this little guy and thanks to my friend Michala for suggesting it when I was thinking about what to make.
I used a cute, soft green gingham flannel for the main body and scraps for the tummy. I am so pleased she liked it :)
I have no pictures from the festival (so sorry Hadley!). I was enjoying the company of Susan, Nicky, Laura, Katy (Laura and Katy were both working super hard on the stands but it was nice to chat briefly) and Nat too much :)
I suggest looking at Susan's post for a glimpse at some of the quilts and a funny picture of Nicky and me and Nat with our bumps.
I did of course make some purchases...
I got a couple of lovely Liberty fat quarters - I have plans to make a red quilt and very little red fabrics!! So this is a good start:
A handy triangle ruler from Creative Grids:
And a two scrap bags of Japanese fabrics from The Eternal Maker. In fact there were so many in there that I thought I'd share and have a little giveaway:
You get all this! A couple are quite small scraps but great for paper piecing or little crafting accents, most of them are bigger than you see in this overlapping picture.
You get two chances to win:
**SORRY THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**
**If you are a no reply blogger please include your email address in the comment - if there is no way to contact you the entry will not count**
The winner will be chosen on Friday 24th August by Mr random.org
Also make sure you stop by on Saturday because I'll be having yet another giveaway as part of the Quilter's Gallery Blog Hop!
Linking up:
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