August Bee Blocks

Today I want to share my most recent bee blocks with you.
First up is the block I made for Lauree in the Cocorico bee.

Her theme for the month is 'Kitchen Couture'. I drafted up this little pattern of a Japanese style teapot my mum used to have.  Hers was black, as most of these iron cast teapots are but I decided to make Lauree's teapot yellow just for fun!

Next up is my block for Patchwork 318 bee. Ayumi chose "Sweets' Shop" as her theme for the month.

I made a green tea and vanilla rose ice cream cone, topped with strawberry whipped cream and red chocolate bow. I managed to square this block up wrong at the very end! But thanks to all the wonderful people over on Flickr I'm now convinced this mistake isn't too bad after all :-)

I don't know about you but starting in a new bee always gets me a bit nervous!


Last up is Reene's block for Fresh Modern Bee 2. She asked us to make our signature block, and sent some wonderful Hope Valley fabric paired  with a bit of solid. I asked her if I could add some bits from my stash to make this + & x block.

Not sure if it fits the bill as my signature block but I so enjoyed making my + & x blocks quilt that I really wanted to make another one of these blocks!

x Leila

Small Sewing Projects ~ Fabric Baskets~

A few weeks back I did a little fabric swap with the lovely Amy from Nana Company Knowing she has the most wonderful stash of cute and pretty florals I asked her for some scrappy bits.
After admiring my pretties for a while I decided I needed to sew something I can look at and use daily. Behold the fabric basket!

I used Ayumi's excellent tutorial to whip these up. You can find it on her blog  This one is now sitting lovely on my sewing table holding all my bits and bobs tidy and in one place.
I knew I needed to sew a bunch more of these to scatter through the house in places where the clutter most often appears.

So far I have only managed to sew one other for the living room but I will sew a couple more for the bathroom and bedrooms.
I'm thinking Christmas gifts already wouldn't these be fun to use as a little gift basket? Hmm.. am I the only one thinking of Christmas presents already?!



x Leila

Lets start with coin purses

I've been unable to take photo's for what seems like ages! It's difficult to decide what to show you first. Rather than bombarding you with a ton of photo's I'm going to do a few posts and try and get back up to speed ok?

First off I received the most gorgeous coin purse from the uber talented Kerry in the pretty little pouch swap.

I definitely got the long end in this swap, I couldn't possibly love a purse more than I love this one!

Kerry also sent me this beautiful pincushion as part of the 'pay it forward' game. It's now my turn to pay it forward to three of you. So if you would like to play along leave me a comment on this post. I'll pick the first three to reply and send you a little something. All you have to do is in turn pay it forward by sending a little pretty handmade something to three of your readers within a year's time. Simple enough right?

I made a little framed coin purse myself as well. I think it turned out pretty decent for a first attempt. I first made a couple test patterns out of left over scraps before deciding on the final shape and size.

This one will be winding it's way to a friend....shhh it's a surprise!

It's good to be back! Thanks so much for sticking around :-) Don't forget to comment if you would like to take part in paying it forward.

x Leila

Hello my lovelies!
How have you all been? Good I hope :-)
I am back home and enjoying some quality time with  Mr. Pfaff. Pom poms are fun but I missed my fabrics way too much!
Sadly I am having some technical difficulties with my camera and uploading photo's. Until I get everything sorted I'll remain a bit quiet on the blog. But I'm sure I will have plenty of new things to show you once everything's back to normal again... I'm working on a big quilt and some other fun stuff so stay tuned!
 

x Leila

July {or it's all about Lynne..}

It's the first day of a fresh new month and that means Lynne @ Lily's Quilts is hosting another Fresh Sewing Day. If you have not seen Lynne's blog yet you're missing out- seriously! She's a bit of a quilting goddess you know, always coming up with great new designs wich she most generously shares with all of us and to top it all off she's hysterically funny!

Well I suppose you have all run off to her blog now but for those of you still reading...here's what I've been up to in July

1. Fluffy Pom, 2. Pom Pom's, 3. Pom Pomalong with me?, 4. For my partner.., 5. Pretty {little} Pouch Swap, 6. Pretty {little} Pouch Swap, 7. Rice Bowl Potholder., 8. Rice Bowl, 9. FMB 2 July block, 10. Teacher's gift Bunting., 11. #55 Linoleum, 12. #12 Broken Sugar Bowl

I'm still enjoying some time off making pom poms and the odd yo yo here and there but I'm starting to seriously miss my sewing machine! {addicted who me?!}

This month I'll be practicing some more paper piecing. I was lucky enough to be invited to join two new bees that I'm very excited about! I'll be blogging more about them once we get started some time in August/ September. But here's a little hint...

My very own Snow Scraper ;-)

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Now head on over to Lynne's to add your link and if you're new to blogging and would like to connect with other new bloggers and maybe get some more followers you should definitely link up to her Small Blogger's Meetup!

x Leila