Finally finished, with 2 days to spare!

My first, well second, embroidery attempt.

WIP, only 2 weeks left to complete it!

The pieces are all sewed together, and as I thought it looked a bit top heavy. So I decided to embroider one of the trees on to the section.

I think this is actually the first time I've used embroidery floss to actually embroider!

The tree is coming together, but now I'm not sure how I'm actually going to get it on the quilt. I think I'm going to have to learn how to do applique now! Or I'll just restart it directly on the quilt.

I made magnets!

As my contribution to my friend's wedding, I offered to make her wedding favours. I think I made close to 300 magnets over the weekend. They're each about the size of a nickel.

Baby Boy Quilt 1

Deciding on which fabric to use for the quilt. My plan was to sort out all the quilts to be made, but I focused on just one, which I regret now because I don't have the luxury of space at my own place.

The colour combo has been chosen, it wasn't difficult because most of it was from a set.

I've decided to go modern with this one, because it required less cutting and will give me time to work on the other quilts this summer/fall.

Production

There is going to be a production of quilts a happening. I am going to attempt to sew five baby quilts this summer. Wish me luck, I'm already 1 behind.

Long time gone

I can't believe how busy work has become, I've been pulling more hours now than ever. Oddly enough I'm loving my job the busier it gets. Strange.

There hasn't been much crafting going on, but I did slip in a quilt for Neen's new little one.

Chinese Lantern Festival 2007

Nuit Blanche 2007 Pompom Tutorial

Pompoms, gotta love em!

Gorgeous

One day I'll make something as cool as this! Kudo's to the artist (unknown).

Femmebomb

Part of Nuit Blanche 2007, this building's facade was covered in a pink quilt and crochet flowers.

Thanksgiving Baking

I decided a while back that I was going to bake cupcakes, but I have no desire to eat them so off to work they went. This was my first attempt, and I figured out that you're not supposed to fill the cups up to the rim (I'll try 2/3 of the way next time). I suspect they ended up looking like dinner rolls because I used a bread recipe. Oh yeah, these are Pumpkin Walnut Bread in cupcake form with Cream Cheese Frosting and the extra batter was used to make two little loaves of bread. These little treats were inspired by chockylit.

Woven Scarf No.3

I thought that I had mastered the set-up on my Knitter's Loom, but I found myself having to refer to the instructions around three or four times. Oddly enough, some steps felt as though I was doing them for the first time! Was I doing my usual skimming the first two times? For this scarf I am using a wonderful buttery yellow wool from Uruguay, and a handspun multi colour skein that I bought off ebay (which I must add, the colours were not even close to what the image looked like on the posting). However I am happy that I am finally able to use it for something, and I had exactly 1 foot left over once I threaded the loom....phewwwwwww!