Christmas Treats

A long awaited and belated Greetings.

It has been a busy second half of the year, filled with mostly good things and an extra special blessing.

Not much has been happening on the crafting front, except for a last minute dash before Christmas.

There is a table cloth, that may have been rumoured many moons ago...that is finally a work in progress, but sadly will not deck the Christmas table this year...but maybe next, but at least it's no longer just a bundle of fabric...it's now piles of lots of little bits of fabric that have been stitched with "X"'s (all shall be revealed in good time..well maybe not good time, but at some time)

A successful project though that has been completed in time this year is my tins of Christmas treats.
The tins were purchased along with some Christmas napkins and then the biscuits, meringues, millionaires shortbread and Santa's buttons were baked and tucked away into the tins, complete with little "Home-made with love" tags (well 1/2 home made cards and 1/2 bought labels).

And here they are:

With that I wish you all a Blessed and Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012

At long last...

At long last here's an update of the recently completed crafty projects...

 First up is the bag I made for my 21 year old niece. Her bag for her study books is starting to wear through , so I sneakily took it's measurements when I did a repair job on it and used them to make her a new bag. Complete with a lining and an inner pocket which is even sub-divided to take a pen and it has a loop with a carabiner to attach car keys.

And...it is personalised with her name on the front and a little red cross as she is studying nursing. I only sewed the name panel on loosely in three places so that it can be removed without too much trouble if my niece doesn't fancy having her name for all to see :)

Then (a project which was mentioned ages ago in my blog) I finally finished the long awaited baby blankie for my nephew.

It is so soft and snugly that I want to keep it for myself.

It was quite a challenge for me, never having worked with binding and silky/satiny binding in particular...so apart from it being a bit wonky, I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

It has a quilted patch on the front. It's a pity the print didn't have frogies instead of turtles as that would have made it perfect... "Frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails, that's what little boys are made of".

And that's the back :)

Anyway now it has been washed and dried and packed into my suitcase as we are off on holiday to go visit our family back home....Yippeeeeee!

How time flies...

Helloooo

Yes I'm still around though I have been rather quiet on the crafting front...what with financial year end and other paper work relating to applications and planning our next holiday....yippeeee!

I do however have a few long over due projects that I'm hoping to finish in the next week - so don't wander too far away, ok :)