May sketch at Handmade by Suzanne

and here is my take on it. Another opportunity to practice my free motion stitching from my course with Julie Balzer

a mini quilt

I started on my dress quilt.....only mine is a poppy quilt......yesterday and finished it today. I found the free motion quilting on fabric much easier than my last effort on cardstock. A lot of the stitching is still uneven but I think it is slowly improving. It was fun to paint on fabric rather than canvas!

Sew Easy scrapbook page

Our latest Sew Easy lesson was a scrapbook page using our (hopefully) newly acquired free motion sewing skills, painting and 2 kinds of hand made flowers. I had some yo-yo's in the right colours so I used them instead of Julie's folded roses. Some of my free motion stitching is terribly wonky, especially where the cardstock hit the side of the sewing machine and caused the stitching to go crazy....Julie did warn us of this! Luckily the flowers came in handy to cover the worst of it! All in all I am VERY happy with how this has turned out. I have used this April sketch from Handmade by Suzanne


And this is my page....

my clutch is finished!

here is the painted canvas. After painting I stamped it with the same foam stamps I used on the cushion cover.

and here is the finished clutch.

another Sew Easy project

I have just finished my cushion cover. It was fun to make as I stamped the floral pattern onto calico and gave my new sewing machine a good workout! This morning I am going to paint some canvas to make a clutch bag....the next project. Unfortunately I am behind and with everyone coming home for Easter I will not have time for sewing. Never mind....it will be fun catching up later!

the front of my cushion

and here is the back

I love it and will be making another one as soon as I can. I am also considering making some yo-yo flowers to stitch on.

a heart and 2 more tags

I don't think I was careful enough cutting out my heart which is a shame as it turned out a little wonky and I have no more of that cute fabric.

I dyed the lace for the first tag with ink and was very pleased with how the gold paint really brightened it up.

For the second tag I cut strips of patterned paper, used a border punch, added a little paint splattering and ink then a sentiment.

Let's Scrap sewing challenge

the member's challenge this week was to use fabric and stitching on a page. I simply had to do this one as I am doing the Sew Easy course! Today I am off to look for a new sewing machine. My old one is 24 years old and veeeery well used!