2015 is here! I wish you all the best for the New Year: a good health, lots of love and great friendships, and lots of happy times with your loved ones!
That wasn't necessarily in my plans for this month but then I came across this challenge on Instagram #SewAprilBlouse23. Blouses/Shirts have been on my wish list for a while but I never really got around sewing one, so I guess this challenge was the perfect push. There were a few patterns that I really liked and shortlisted. I am Hesat was the first one I went for, hoping I'll have time for others! For the fabric, I raided my stash and pulled out 2 fabrics that I washed. I eventually settled on this beautiful Cobra Corsage lawn fabric that I had been sitting in my cupboard for 5 years! Too pretty to be cut? Well I decided that it's actually too pretty to be hidden in a drawer! The blouse is quite simple since it only has 4 pieces: front, back and 2 sleeves and the construction is reasonably simple. I lengthen a little body and sleeves but I can't relever by how much 🫢 I hadn't really tried the rolled hem on the overlocker before, so I practiced onto a scrap and
We are back from pour holidays in Canada and the normal rush of work/kids/house is un full speed again... Our trip in Canada was really nice, and although I was going to make it to a quilting shop or even a craft store, none of that happened! We visited Toronto and the Niagara Falls and then moved on to Québec for a little tour. Lots of lovely sights and a great encounter with whales and black bears! Holidays has also meant hand sewing as you might have seen in my previous posts and with that I managed 2 more blocks for the Mischief quilt, a yellow and a green. I've been briefly looking for block(s) I made before but I had only made one which has been stained it seems when the basement got flooded... Linking to D esign Wall Monday , Midweek Makers , Wednesday Wait Loss , Happy Needle and Threa d , Put your foot down , Brag about your Beauties , Off the wall Friday , Can I get a Whoop Whoop , Peacock Party , Patchwork and Quilt . Céline
Welcome to my stop on the Hexie Blog Hop Be a Hexie Queen ! I am a hexie lover and always have an emergency supply of hexies in my bag for when I am on-the-go (which is actually very often) and when I first signed up for the blog hop, I thought I would show you a EPP (English Paper Piecing) hexie project. That was until I remembered a long forgotten UFO that was laying in a plastic bag in my cupboard. I thought it would be the perfect occasion to get the dist and cobwebs out (no it wasn't that bad really) and give it a new lease of life! It all started with a few scrap strips and ended with a few more strips! I ordered and received a scrap bag of Moda fabric a few years back and I received a pack of off-cuts of Migration by Holly Taylor. I wasn't sure what to do with it until I saw this Hexagon quilt-along on Julie of Jaybird Quilts ' blog that I know I wanted to join in, it was all about hexagons! And although there were machine-pieced, there was no horrible Y
A happy and healthy new year to you, Celine! May it be a great one!
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