EB Round Robin Quilt Swap - fabrics

These are the fabrics I am using for the EB Round Robin Quilt Block Swap. The swap involves 12 participants making up the same 12 inch quilt block in everyone else's fabrics. Once eveyone gets back their 11 blocks plus the one they make themselves they will have 12 quilt blocks in their fabric of all different designs (like a sampler quilt). Then we just have to put it together as we please! My finished quilt is going to be for Miss M's big bed when she moves out of the cot. I have a fat quarter bundle of the fabric collection 'Riley' by Anna Griffin which I am using.

Most if not all of the other participants are going for creams/whites as their backgrounds I think but this is my background fabric for all the blocks - bright enough? YES!

And the following are the fat quarters that I am using out of my bundle for the rest of the blocks - we send off one fat quarter of the background plus 2 fat eighths of different fabrics for contrast.

EB Kids Clothing Swap - what I sent off!

So here is what I sent off my my swap partner Kylie (who I don't think has a blog) for her little man Hartley who is 2 1/2 years old. Hartley is a very tall boy so I made clothes in sizes 3 & 4 to suit him. Mum Kylies requests were bright colours, overalls, sock monkeys and snakes so hopefully she is happy with what I came up with.

Pants, T-Shirt & Overalls

Overalls in Size 4 with yellow sock monkey lining and front pockets. I had bits and pieces of a very old pattern for these that the MIL gave me so had to make some pieces up, but I love how they turned out, so cute!
O+S Sandbox Pants in Size 3 with red sock monkey pockets Freezer Paper Stencilled T-Shirt of a snake

And a close up of the snakes tongue and eyes

EB Kids Clothing Swap - opening day!

Today is opening day for the EB Kids Clothing Swap! Thankyou Esther for this gorgeous outfit for Matilda. Unfortuately the shorts a too small but the dress/top is perfect and the little headband looks so sweet on. Thankyou again Esther, the colours really do suit her perfectly!

Front

Back

Some very fuzzy action shots of my little princess thinking it was very funny for mummy to be chasing her around the house trying to take her photo!

Finally I cornerd her in the bathroom . . . right next to the toilet! lol

I know that my swap partner has received her gift for the little man I was sewing for but has yet to post what she got, so once she does will post some pics of the outfits I made : )

EB Kids Clothing Swap - ready to send!

Well I am finished!

My parcel of clothes is all wrapped up and ready to send to the little person I was making for : )

EB Pin Cushion Swap

This is what I received. My sender didn't include a card but I am going to take a stab in the dark and say a big thankyou to Becca for my gorgeous little chicken pin cushion and some extra little pressies!

My partner to make a pin cushion for was Dani and below is what I made for her. The little extra pin cushion is a thumb pincushion that can be tied onto the big one with the ribbon when not in use so it doesn't go missing : )

More Sneak Peaks!

Here is another little sneak peak for the EB kids clothes swap. Just about finished, just some hemming and a little top to finish off now : ) A little different to the first sneak peak? Yes it is, this is a second outfit that I started on and should have just done from the beginning so I am undecided yet as to whether I will send both pieces with a top that will go with both or just this one as I love the way this one has turned out! So cute!

EB Haby Swap

Thank you to Cass for the lovely goodies I received in the EB Haby Swap. A magazine, some material, a pin cushion, zips, pins, ric rac and buttons. All lovely bits and pieces that I am sure will get used up very soon!

Sneak Peaks!

This is a sneak peak of what I am making for the kids clothing swap on EB.

And a sneak peak of what I made for the pin cushion swap on EB which I posted off last week.

EB Beginners Sewers - November Challenge - Oven Mitt Progress #3

Another oven mitt. This time I stuck to just one fabric, instead of trying to be all fancy. Got it done while both the kids had a nap over lunch, about an hour including cutting out time. Still not perfect and still have the bunching issues around the thumb.

Another go at the bias binding, getting there slowly . . .

EB Beginners Sewers - November Challenge - Oven Mitt Progress #2

Quilting through all layers - I am terrible with a pair of scissors and have since bought myself a cheap cutting mat and rotary cutter so am sure the next attempt will be much neater!

And, the final product. It is pretty rough, but ok for my first attempt at sewing something on my new machine that isn't a nappy, lol. I had some trouble with bunching which you can see around the thumb area, and the fit is very slim, even though I made the seam allowance smaller than on the pattern. This was my first attempt at using bias binding too - I really need to practice sewing straight lines! lol. All in all, not bad, but will try and be more patient with my next attempt.

EB Beginners Sewers - November Challenge - Oven Mitt Progress #1

So, I just bought some Christmas Flats from Spotlight for this challenge and have layed them out in strips of the different colours. Hopefully this all works and I can quilt through the wadding to give it a quilted look - listen to me sounding all technical and I have never done quilting before lol. I have the insulbright wadding, with plain red flannel out of my scraps for the inside of the mitt. I am using this pattern http://www.allfreecrafts.com/sewing/oven-mitts.shtml.