Showing posts with label swaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swaps. Show all posts

Friday, August 20, 2010

Swapalicious!

Today was the big hand over. 
Rachal and I both dumped ourselves on Kelli's doorstep, demanded coke, cake and sweet tea and then proceeded to rifle through her bits and pieces......sounds naughty, doesn't it!
For entertainment she laid on a handsome half naked male, or as we knowledgeable women call it, a pre-schooler that can't pull his pants up yet. 
The music was catchy too and I noticed that we were all humming the tune to Wallace and Grommit as we left. 
I found myself with a totally captivated audience, in fact every word I uttered was met with adoration........from her new dog!
Both Rachal and I bullied Kelli until she gave in and attempted to teach us both how to crochet. I, of course, was a model student but Rachal on the other hand had the bad manners to be left handed so Kelli had to turn herself inside out and back to front in a vain attempt to educate the cack handed one. This is my magnificent start....See the sharp corners.......see the colour change........see and admire the tribble stitch I learnt.


What! It's a bit wonky! It's a "triple" stitch?! Blimey....you're so picky!


But you're not here to find out what we talked about (btw...we talked about you, wouldn't you like to know what was said now.) You want to see the swap don't you!
Well, my end was to quilt a quilt for Kelli's mum, here it is.....



It was a dream to quilt as it was all squared up nicely, no rippling borders.




But I've saved the best for last. This is what Kelli did for me......




Yes, she spray painted my sewing machine cover! Isn't it brilliant! I do have a habit of over doing the exclamation mark but blooming heck, it's absolutely fantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, even the back got a girlie girl!




Go on, admit it, you're totally jealous. I know you are cos even my hubby is! He wants me to convince Kelli to paint his computer cover now. I feel another deal in the making!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Swaps

I'm doing a swap with Kelli. Not the usual sort....more a skills swap. 
I think I'm getting the better end of the deal though.....can't wait to show you...I'm really excited! I know when you see what I'm getting, you'll all want one.....but I got in first!
Here's a snippet of my end of the deal....



Saturday, July 17, 2010

Lolly-popish and darker, more erotic!!!

I've had many things said about my sewing, usually I hear the words, "lovely, sweet, pretty, funny" you know what I mean. But the other day I sent my eldest daughter over to my flickr page to see her quilt progressing hoping that she'd like it and she said some of the blocks "are lolly-popish, others are darker, more erotic." !!!!!!!
Never, never before has anything I've made been described like that. I am ...... thrilled! 
I can see a whole new profession awaiting me in the erotic quilt making business. Yes, it will be my new niche market, I will corner it and slowly take over the world....opps....didn't mean that last bit, just got carried away! You know how it is when the word "erotic" gets bandied around people my age.....we get all silly and giggly.....well, I do anyway.
But to bring a bit of sense and decorum back to this extremely serious blog (!)....
I went to another of the MMQG (see sidebar) meetings last week and we did our badge swap. I got a great badge from ...blast it, I can't remember her name, but she's a lovely American lady.... anyway, I love it, especially the little red balls hanging down. Thank you.

I must admit, making one for Miranda was fun, even though I got frustrated a few times. And yes....I guess I'd do it all again, creating something small can make you inventive. This is what I ended up making....and I bet that bell drives her nuts soon!

And lastly, this is why I've hardly sewn a stitch this week......

Two more to go in the series, then I'll be back to normal......hopefully!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Swapping shame

I've got a guild meeting on Sunday and a couple of weeks ago I signed up for a name badge swap. "That's nice" I hear you say, infortunately I think I'm about to be bannished from the swap......and possibly from all future swaps!
The trouble started when I read the rules......they stated something like "the badge must not be larger that 9cm's in any direction", well....I'm an "inches" kind of girl! I grew up with feet and inches (showing my age here) and have a natural affinity with imperial measurements. This new fangled "metric system" is strange and unnatural to me....and if I'm honest I think it's just a fad and wont last. But anyway I pressed on with the badge making a decent guess at the size.
The first hurdle came when I'd finished it. You know how you look at something and it annoys you......well I'd done a bit of a bodge job of joining two bits of ricrac and had tried to hide the mess. No one else spotted it but to me it stuck out like a sore thumb. So I undid it all, replaced the messy bits with a correctly fitting piece and put it all back together and smiled.

Till today.....when I measured it with a metric ruler.....Agh! It's over a centimeter too big in all directions! And that's when I squish it up small!
Well, I'm not taking it apart again! It'll have to do.......I'm hoping that the swap organiser wont have a ruler to hand. Or if she does, hopefully it'll just have "inches" on it!

Still pressing on with the aminé quilt....though slowly as it's the holidays and "someone" needs my attention a lot!