Swapping {Hoops} yay! post!

I received my lovely hoop from Sarah today!!! 

Here it is on my wall with two hoops I made and rejected for the swap, it's the bottom one with the bird. I love the text balloon! {in case you can't read it,  it says 'are we there yet? are we there yet, are we there yet?''}

Not only did she send me this amazing hoop but also some pretty cool goodies, check this out!

Thanks a bunch Sarah!

How are you coming along with your christmas 'to do' lists? Seems that for every thing I check off my list something else gets put on!

x Leila

Are you still there?

If you are you're my most favorite person in the world! I've been such a bad blogger lately~ sorry!

So time for some catching up.

I've joined yet another swap over on Flickr. I'm feeling like I should join a support group now "I'm Leila and I have a swapping habit" lol! But they're such good fun and I figured since I only join one at a time it's ok ~right?

Here's my entry made from this fab tutorial

Itty Bitty Ticker Tape Quilt 

This swap works a little different from the others I've entered so far. 

Instead of us all getting paired up with a partner we send our entries in anonymously. All players get to vote on their favorite mini quilt. Then after everything is added up our swap host divides the quilts up according to votes and popularity. Most popular quilt entries are more likely to get the quilt they voted for first. 

It pretty much works like we used to pick teams in gym class!

Now honestly, I don't think I ever was the last girl standing when it was time to pick teams, but this swap might be payback time for my luck in school!

 I hope my Itty Bitty Ticker Tape Quilt isn't going to be the girl nobody picked to be on their team!

I'm waiting for the weather to clear up a bit so I can take pictures of my latest quilt finish.

Be back soon!

x Leila

~Inspiration~

Have you seen this?

Luke Haynes go check it out it's  a m a z i n g!

x Leila

Beast

 Do you have odd things that remind you of christmas?
 It's probably because it was this time of year, two years ago when one of my friends gave me a copy of a CD. On it was written a name; Nina Kinert and 'because this is soooo beautiful'

And it was, and it still is.

Hope you enjoyed that!

 I'm busy trying to sew things for christmas but my machine is acting up, it's got tension issues and started to skip stitches, not good!

I'll be back with some on-topic post another day :-)

x Leila

Swapping {Hoops} part two

I've made another hoop for my partner in the Scrappy {Hoops} swap over on Flickr.

Something quite different just to see how she would react!

I've used woolfelt on a  linen background. I wanted a more natural look but still colourful. Thinking about things we most definately had in common but not neccesarily sewing related, I came up with 'breathe' Because we all do! ;-)

Although I'm pleased with both hoops I've made I'm finding it pretty difficult to translate my partners likes into a design.

Perhaps I'm just overthinking this a bit too much!

I'd better make my mind up I would like to get this posted monday.

All grey and raining here today. Perfect day for some sewing :-) 

What are you making/ swapping?

x Leila