Shell Art by Amy Ramsey

Has anyone seen the recent Martha Stewart Living magazine with the Shell Art feature? You must watch this little video on the Martha site. I am very impressed! How about the cake?!

I'm going to be looking at the beach in a whole new light! Now I just have to check the laws on removing shells...

The above is the most beautiful work of Amy Ramsey. That's ALL shells! Amazing. You can read more about her in the magazine or here

Great new blog find.

Feeling Stitchy has just been added to my blogroll. So impressed! Especially cute is this great piece by Emily aka Floss Box who Feeling Stitchy tells me has an Etsy store to buy the pattern! Bravo!

Winter 2008 Quilting.

This is my first quilting project! It was an old quilt top pieced by my Aunt ages ago. She didn't know what to do with it so I seized the opportunity! When I was up visiting last week I got the batting and backing fabric and am now in the process of hand quilting the entire thing! One 5mm stitch at a time!

The quilt is more of a small single bed size currently and I think it'll be perfect for the couch or the base of the bed to keep our feet warm this winter.

I'm going to try and get a better photo of it next time as the colours are quite vibrant. Lots of great oranges and purples. Being all checks and I'm thinking of keeping the edging very plain when it's complete.

Has anybody worked on anything similar? How did you find quilting it all by hand?

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Antique Cross Stitch on Linen - Home Sweet Home.


Vintage 1930's quilt top.

Pac Man Needlebook

I made this yesterday. It's a cute little needlebook so I can carry my sewing needles around safely in my bag on the trams and trains. Always a good thing!

Baby 66 has arrived!

Congratulations to Shef and Melinda on the birth of Ziya Joseph Bey today!!! I'm sure most of you have been ohh and ahhing over Melinda's beautiful nursery over at 66 Stitches.

I was supposed to go to Melinda's house yesterday to play with the Gocco printer but someone 'wasn't feeling very well'... I'll say!! Going into labour and all! Goodness!

So now I just have to complete my very excellent present that I have been crafting. I'll post something when it has been completed but I have to let you know that I had to make it twice as the construction involved got a bit mucked up the first time around. But now that I know better it is going to rock!

I shall let you all know that it is cross stitch (of course!).

I've been away.

Hello all. I have been up in the country being a bad blogger. But I was crafting! I went up to Bright in north eastern Victoria and spoke to my Aunt's year 10 textiles class. It's a bit intimidating, mainly because I didn't really plan what I was going to talk about! I just had a chat. I think it went ok though with only one student texting a friend on her mobile while I was trying to talk! Oh well.

But if I had planned something I probably would have had them interacting or putting something together or something... I dunno. Maybe I can go back and have them make something that I can post here.... Hmmmm.