End of Year Show and Tell

I can't believe the last few weeks have gone so quickly.

I have been sewing and felting up a storm as

 I set myself the challenge of making most of the presents this year.

Certainly the females in the family anyway, I find men difficult 

to buy for let alone make for.

We have also had a couple of Christmas events with Carols at the pub

which was fun and a Christmas party for the Surf life saving club

which was great fun.

I also had a coffee and mince pie morning with

the ladies at my Patchwork group  as we had our

end of year show and tell.

It made me feel a little inadequate seeing some of the work brought along.

I loved this one below. The ladies daughter

set her the challenge of doing something abstract

and her words were

 " This was the best I could come up with I'm afraid"

It's fantastic to see how so many different designs

appear when we are all given the basic block to work with.

I wrote about my version of this Here

The shop is starting up dress making classes in the 

new year and the lady running them put some of her

work on show.

I don't need beginners dress making skills

but I do want to learn to smock as this is fabulous.

I don't think I'm alone in this either as these 

dresses generated a lot of interest.

I can't show you any of my work except the advent calendar below  as some members of 

my family read my blog and it would give the game away.

This I made for my eldest daughter though 

and of course she already has it full of chocolates.

She absolutely loved it and I have to say it was good fun to make as well.

This quilt below is for one of the classes next term

and I love the colours so might have to use similar ones

for my project next term.

One thing I can show you is my Harris tweed 

applique project. I really like the colours

of this fabric and have used this little bag a lot.

The long wooden' button' I got n Australia a few years ago

and I think just finishes it off.

I didn't use any bond a web or stiffening on the appliqué and

it is fraying a little but I rather like like that.

I can open my Santa Sack Swap tomorrow so look out for another post very soon.

Gillxx