Miss Marlo Dress

Ooh forgot to share with you Pip Lincolne's book Sew La Tea Do, that I mentioned in my last post..
Here it is!!

Make sure you check out Pip's blog though before you attempt the Miss Marlo dress (which is the pattern I used) - as the scaling is completely wrong on the pattern in this book!!  I didn't check Pip's blog first, and spent all day cutting up lovely fabric while watching Pride and Prejudice, only to discover that none of my pieces fit together and that I would have to buy more material and do it all again!  Heartbreaking.

Quilting Extravaganza!

So obviously I'm fairly slack with the blogging - so I'm going to try and just put up a few pictures every now and then to show what I'm up to rather than trying to use words and whole sentences.  Way too exhausting.

I've been getting into quilting a lot lately, I have been making lots of little patchwork quilts for different things, and have started cutting up all the squares for the double bed quilt I have supposed to have been making for this Winter!

This is a blanket I made for a friend's baby - the beautiful Finlay Gillespie!  My lovely friend Liz very kindly took this photo for me to show you all :)

This was my first real go at getting bias binding right on a quilt - but didn't really turn out as I'd hoped.  Still I was pretty happy with the colours, as I wasn't sure whether I was making this for a little boy or a little girl!  The red-riding hood prints are particularly gorgeous I think.

Here is my quilt plan before I sewed everything up..

I also used the red riding hood fabric to make a dress using Pip Lincolne's pattern from Sew La Tea Do:

And a close up of the fabric :)

Now that Winter is coming up, I think I'm going to need to focus mainly on getting enough woolens to last me through a Tasmanian winter!  So hopefully I will put up a whole pile of beanies and scarves soon - including a really wonderful beret pattern I found on ravelry.com which I will share with you all (hopefully) next time!