Flower Power in a big way

My friend Dawn Hay is having a giveaway for her 100th post and has made the cutest bag. Dawn has added a fabric flower to the bag using the flower tutorial which she stitched a centre for and used 9 petals.
Look at what she has done with it though. How cute is that!!!!

But....WOW do I ever feel so privileged. She has named the bag after "ME". Thank you Dawn. I feel truly honoured to be your friend and to be able to join you and the other girls on a Tuesday morning stitching, laughing, and sharing common interests and friendship.

Enter now for a chance to win!!

Flower Power

Yep more flower power. Graciela has been making flowers. Not just one but lots of different ones. Tutorial for the bigger flower is here.

Lollipop Fabric

Look what arrived in the mail from Jenny in New Zealand. What a lovely Random Act of Kindness and I appreciate your generosity. Isn't it just the cutest. What a novel way to wrap a fabric gift. Thanks Jenny. I love it.

Flower Power

Robin is quick off the mark and has created a lovely flower from the tutorial I posted recently. Isn't it lovely and bright. Robin and her business partner Marilyn have a thing for brights and orange in particular I notice...hehehe

Support a fellow Blogger.....

Lyn from Bluebird Quilts is coordinating the making of a quilt using 9 patch blocks. Lyns dear friend Illene and her daughter are going through a tough time due to ill health and she would love to put together a quilt with the help and support of caring bloggers. If you would like to participate, by making a block or even just blogging about it, please drop over and visit Lyn

Fabric Flower Tutorial

Today I decided to make a fabric flower and then thought why not do a tutorial and share with my friends. My friend Naomi came over and we were chatting about the fabric flower she made sewing two half circles together. I thought it would be a lot quicker to use a full circle and just fold it over. So here goes.....

Cut 5 circles out from fabric using a CD/disc.



Fold them in half and iron or press as any good quilter would tell you....lol...this half circle is one petal.


Using matching cotton thread do a basting stitch to gather the raw edges about 1/8th of inch from the edge. Pull up tight and tie off the first petal.


Continue onto the next petal doing the same until you have the five attached. Join the last one to the first one so you have nice flower with a hole in the middle.



I decided to make 2 yo-yo's for my middle. I used a yo-yo maker that is about 3.5" in width. I put them upside down so the smooth side faces out. I made one for the front and one for the back. So both sides of my flower looks perfect and no messy bits on the back.

You can then use it to do whatever you wish. Brooch, magnet, sew it directly onto a tote bag. You could even put a key-chain on it. This flower is about 4.5" across from petal to petal. If you want them smaller just cut smaller circles for your petals. As you can see below the back looks good too.

Enjoy and have fun making these easy flowers.

I will do a simple tote bag tutorial soon to show you how pretty your flower can look on a tote bag.......stay tuned folks.

Eleasah's Goodies

Eleasah brought some fabric from my Oztion shop recently and boy has she hopped to it and got a couple of things made from it already....a cute little bag and a bible cover. How pretty are they. And look at the cute bird she has put on her bag pocket. Very clever isn't she.

My Baby's first day at High School

My baby's first day at High School. WOW. Time sure does go quickly. 12 years old and Year 8 already! The last baby has made it to the big world of High School.

I can only hope that she enjoys her years in high school and achieves what she wants to in order to achieve what she chooses to do later in life. I can remember going to high school and not having a clue what I would really want to do with my life just as most of us did and just as most kids still to do this day. If we could only know then what we knew now. Although I never finished year 12 and went on to Uni I can say I was happy with my chosen jobs I have had in between having four children. I can only hope my children can be happy and enjoy whatever path they take.

AUSTRALIA DAY

JUST WANTED TO SAY HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY TO ALL OF AUSTRALIA - I AM PROUD TO BE AN AUSSIE.

Whirlgig Blocks coming along

I have been working on the Whirligig blocks and am still not sure how big I am going to do this. I had thought about it for a table topper but not sure if it really the look I want for a table topper. Have left it sitting on my table for now to see if it grows on me and or whether I will continue on to a quilt size.