My very dear friend's daughter Millie was turning 4 and I asked my friend is she would like a quilt for Millie's room, and to my delight she said YES.
This quilt was quiet a challenge. It's first time that I had pictures of the room, which had been decorated and I had to try to find the fabric to suit it, to fit in with the decor. Usually I just pick up fabric from my stash, but this time nothing in my stash seemed suitable. So I searched high and low until I came across Moda 'Posy' collection. And it just felt right. It felt right for Millie, and it felt right for the room that I been given pictures of.
Challenges didn't stop here. I'm still very much amateur, so it was quiet tricky for me to make fat eight bundle to "stretch" to make a single quilt. But I managed :) Used up pretty much every scrap that there was.
Modeled on my daughter's bed, as always :)
Procraftination [proh-kraf-tuh-ney-shuhn]; noun >> the act or habbit of procraftinating - working on craft projects when you should be doing laundry, washing dishes or picking kids up from school. (Author uknown)
Friday 22 February 2013
Thursday 14 February 2013
Blast From Mummy's Past {cot quilt}
Many ears ago, when I first came to live to England, I made a friend. We shared flat, we shared same workplace, we even shared same birthday! But as time went on, she went back home, to Lithuania, and, sadly, we lost touch. Recently I had discovered (thank goodness for Facebook) that she just had a baby. Immediately I knew I have to make a cot quilt for the old times sake.
Main fabric that I chose is called "Next Stop London". I thought it's perfect - colourful, bright, happy and, more importantly, will remind my friend of her time UK, small part of which she actually spent in London itself.
Main fabric that I chose is called "Next Stop London". I thought it's perfect - colourful, bright, happy and, more importantly, will remind my friend of her time UK, small part of which she actually spent in London itself.
Friday 1 February 2013
Dragonfly Jewellery Box set {decoupage}
This lovely jewellery box that I made back in December got lost by Royal Mail and never reached lovely Ann. As far as I understand it was supposed to be Christmas present for her daughter. Bad bad Royal Mail!
Anyways, so there was nothing else left to do, but make a new one. This jewellery box is slightly smaller than the one that got lost, so I decoupaged a tiny extra box as well. Maybe one day it could become box for Tooth Fairy, or just keep a single very very special piece of jewellery.
Anyways, so there was nothing else left to do, but make a new one. This jewellery box is slightly smaller than the one that got lost, so I decoupaged a tiny extra box as well. Maybe one day it could become box for Tooth Fairy, or just keep a single very very special piece of jewellery.
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