Poppies

Ive Recieved the lovely material from Hilary's,  I've sent away for it to enter a competition which entails me using this fabric in a project of my choice . Not sure yet what to make but I'm so excited to have the challenge of using it as its lovely fabric and I love the colours.
Once I start the project ill be posting on here at the various stages of construction so you can see how I use it . It s a lovely heavy cotton so it will lend itself to anything I choose to make.

Owls

I just had to share this with you all , my freind gave me a peice of the fabric and I love owls so I thought ill glam it up and makea bag from it. Here is the project so far, it will have some more stitch on it and some bling too!

I'm off today and having hair done so I'm taking this to the hairdressers to do. I may have it finished today!so ill post it tomorrow.

Enjoy your day!
Jayne

Ottoman 18th century

Good morning everyone, I thought I'd share this picture of the antique embroidery I bought a while ago. I was told at the time it is from the 18 th  century and it was Turkish origin.
I've since researched it and yes it is from the Ottoman Empire and I have also dated it about 17-18 th century.
It is very delicate but the colours have stayed quite well , the detail in it is amazing . The background is brown fine cotton and the threads used are silk.
I do love old embroidery and I use in my work alot to give it a new leas of life , however this peice which is about 14x 16 " I'm going to get framed and keep as it is it would be a crime to chop it up!

Well it's my day job today so no sewing today for me unless I can get some done tonight after work.
Hope you get some time to be creative today!
Jayne

Me

I thought id put a face to the blog so you know what I look like ! I am dressed up here so I don't always look so glam!
I'm off today and I recieved my bag frames I ordered so am really excited as I can make up some of my bespoke purses. I got some lovely ribbons and trims to use so ill be busy for sure. I suppose ill do some house work first!
Well have a lovely day hope you get time to stitch.

Bracelets

Good morning everyone, got the day job today ....off tomorrow and I can't wait as I've started a new designs which ill share later on.
I thought I'd show you these bracelets I made at Christmas time they were popular at craft fairs. I might do a few more as I'm trying to get some stock ready for a fair coming up inthe summer.
Anyways have a nice day today I'm going to try and do some sewing today after work.
Although today is Pancake. Day ( shrove. Tuesday) so hubby will expect pancakes!
Wonder what I should give up for 40 days ...not sewing that's for sure!
Ill think about it and let you k ow tomorrow.
Have a good day
Jayne

Bunny quilt

Here's another quilt I made yesterday for the premature baby unit. I love Peter rabbit from Beatrix Potter and my freind gave me this fabric to use . I ope the baby likes it.

I'm at the day job today so no stitching for me Unfortunatly......I like my day job as well but I love to stitch!
Hope you get time to stitch today?
Jayne

Quilts

Hello everyone , well I had a lovely day yesterday with my sewing freinds at the Embroidery guild.

we all made small baby quilts for the premature baby unit at the local hospital.

It was a day led by Pamela and Jill whom are great at quilting and patchwork.

It was nice to chat to freinds as well. we managed to make about 20 and some of us took fabric home to make another one. Here's a selection of them.