It's my birthday today

Today It's my birthday. I'm officially 47 years old. To commemorate I offered myself a nice framed purse. I made it in  my favorite colors, yellow and blue. I used some Summer breeze II. I love my new purse. It's huge and I can get all my stuff inside.

WIP - Small Stuff only...

Hi, it's that day of the week again and here I am to share my work in progress with all of you.
I'm enjoying my Summer vacations so I have been to the beach with Dh and my sewing has been put into second place. Nevertheless I still manage to escape to my sewing room no and then and make some little things that are quite easy and quick to make. Besides it's been too hot ( about 30 degrees) to do any quilting, my tops have to wait until the Fall in order to be quilted.

Here's what I've been up to...

 A big metal framed purse for my daughter, she loves purses!!!

This one is huge.

 A pretty little pouch, of course my daughter asked me to make her a miniature one

Here they are...Mother and daughter!!!LOL

That is all I have to show you but link up with the lovely Lee at Freshly Pieced and you can enjoy many wonderful works in progress.

 Have a nice week,

Hugs,

TERESA

WIP Wednesday

It's Wednesday again and this week I have a couple of things to show

Two applique pillows I made from some old orphan blocks I found when I was cleaning my fabric drawers.

A front zippered pouch and a little basket

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced, share your work is progress,too.

I have a New Blog

Tenho um novo blogue. Foi feito para divulgar os meus trabalhos. Quem quiser pode também adquirir as minhas peças. Faça uma visita. O blogue chama-se UM GOSTO E UM VINTÉM.

I have a new blogue. I created it to show and sell my little sewing projects. Life is hard and I have to find means to increase my income. Pay me a visit HERE.

FNSI - July Report

It wasn't a very busy Friday night, I've only made a couple of sewing accessories,

Two scissor holders, each of them holds three scissors. A big ,a medium and a small one.

A wonderful pincushion. I used a free pattern from Kaaren at The Painted Quilt, she is a great designer and often shares her patterns on her blog.

To finish the sewing night I made two little bags

May I present the Owlie Family

My big projects have been put aside for a while. No, it's not  that I don't like them anymore but I needed to make some gifts and other small projects for an event I'm going to enter by the end of the month. I'm going to show some of my work to other crafty people. I can't wait.

I present my newest softie family, The Owlies! They are stuffed with lavender and we can put them in drawers or just on top of our furniture. They are really cute and smell wonderfully

I got my birdie pouch finished today, it's great to put our sewing stuff or all the other things women tend to carry everywhere.

Afterwards there was still time to make two sewing kits. They are very easy to make

 The inside has eight little pockets to put the spools in

 This is the outside

The sewing bag closes with a string with to glass beads.

We can  even through in a little pincushion if we want to

                                                                  

What I've been working on...

Summer has arrived and the days are getting hotter. It's impossible to do free motion quilting or any other kind of quilting, so this week I've only made some simple small stuff.

                                  Tissue holders

                         Scrappy little hearts stuffed with lavender, great to use on our clothes' drawers and a zippered purse that is is yet on the project stage

I've done the piecing and the applique, hopefully I'll finish it during this week

All the way from Melbourne

Today I received a package from Australia. It came from my friend Celia. We have been exchanging Fw blocks and today I got the most wonderful 12 blocks

The blocks look awesome!!!

Celia has used some wonderful fabrics. I bet she has a big stash of civil war reproductions. My quilt will certainly benefit from it. I'm thrilled.

These are some goodies she also sent me. I love the little string bag. Just adorable. The buttons are fantastic and the quilt labels,too. Thank you so much Celia.

More FW fun...

This week end I've made some more FW blocks. It's not much for a whole two days but I had a lot of fun doing them

I've won!!!

Last week I entered one of Jolly Jabber's giveaways.

 As you know Jolly Jabber is the Fat Quarter Shop blog. You had to guess the name of a line of fabric following some clues. I guessed right and... I won!!! YEAH! I'm so happy. Look at the wonderful fat quarter bundle I'm going to receive.

It's the wonderful Classroom Alice Putnam. Thank you Codi, and thank you Fat Quarter Shop!

WIP Wednesday

I can't believe a week has passed. It sure seems like yesterday that I made a WIP post.
This week I've decided to show you my Farmer Wife blocks. I've made more or less 60 which means I still have many to do. Nevertheless here it goes

Last week I began some civil war blocks. They are small but wonderful to make, I'm only beggining

Last but not least my DWR quilt is going slowly but steadily. I've got four rings and a couple of arches ready

Don't forget to link up with the lovely Lee at Freshly Pieced and share your WIP with all of us.

FNSI - DWR and some new blocks

Last night I made more arches for my DWR quilt and sewed  another ring. I have four now

Here they are

I said in older posts that I wouldn't begin any other project until I finished this quilt. Well I should have kept my mouth shut.
I couldn't resist a glimpse on this wonderful book  " Civil War Legacies  by Carol Hopkins ". I don't have the book but I saw some of the projects in it and couldn't help myself. I love civil war blocks and fabric so... Here is what I did the rest of the night ( and A bit today,too).

WIP Wednesday- More DWRing

Since I've started my Double Wedding Ring quilt, I've tried not to start any other projects that would keep me off track. For that reason I don't have much to show you

I have sewed together three rings and I have a couple of arches ready to go. I'm going to make more this week-end.

Besides my DWR I've only made my swap blocks and some gifts, this is one of them...

I still have to quilt and bound it.
To see more projects just visit the lovely Lee at Freshly Pieced.

White or dark Sashing????

This week-end I made  Granny Square #20 . No more blocks, now to the sashing dilemma

As I don't have room for a design wall I use my bed or my floor as a substitute. today when I laid the blocks to decide the setting a huge doubt came to me... Should I go for the usual white sashing that most everybody has used or should I try something different, a dark sashing perhaps. What do you think my dear quilty friends? Please give me some advice.