The Great International Stash Busting Giveaway

Hi, I'm Kelly and I'm addicted to fabric!

I love ALL my fabric, but in the spirit of giving and spreading the joy, I'm joining in the fun of Ginger Monkey's International Stash-busting Giveaway on 4 February 2009.  

I don't know how this giveaway works, but I do know that there are a lot of generous people signing up to give YOU the chance to win some free fabric goodies!!!  

Go to Ginger Monkey's blog to find out all the details.

Penguin Bag

I made this bag for my mother-in-law for Christmas 2007.  

She and a group of friends love penguins and always buy each other little odds and sods with penguins on them, so I knew she'd appreciate a penguin bag.

I used a pattern out of a magazine for this bag.  The original bag was strips of different greens with an appliqued fence and birds on top.  I went with black and white prints and found a picture online to use for my appliqued penguin.        

I was pretty happy with the end result, especially the penguin!

Showing off!

I'm planning to clean off my sewing table today so I can finally get some sewing done, it's been awhile!

Before I tackle the table, I thought I'd upload some images of things I've actually completed and some of my WIPs.

First up is a gorgeous bag I made doing a class at Thread & Ginger (Victoria Point, Qld) with Linda Mahoney. The pattern for this bag is one of Linda's designs called "Fresh Tote Bag".

Linda made the bag with the divine freshcut fabric from Heather Bailey. 

I was going to do mine using Kaffe fabrics - I love his stuff (see Pinwheel Quilt from earlier blog), but I wasn't happy with the way my fabrics looked together, so I decided to use a beautiful Kaufman Japanese fabric and some divine wooden handles I had in my stash.  

  

I love the end result!

2009 EB Fabric Swap

It's been just over a year since I last posted - doesn't time fly!!!  

I have quite a few works in progress that I will post here soon, but this post is to display the lovely fabrics I received as part of a birthday fabric swap that I'm participating in.

I'm a shocking photographer, so I hope you can make out these gorgeous fabrics!

The first parcel I received was from Caryn, and it contained a lovely light blue fq with kids drumming, in a plane and tents and trumpets.  Very Cute!!!

The next parcel came from Kim who spoilt me with a pretty fq of red, pink & purple tulips, and some smaller pieces of white with blue clovers; red fabric with silver flowers; and blue fabric with red and yellow flowers.
      

Next were some pretty fabrics from my good friend Kylie, a baby pink fq with little elephants and a soft purple bambi fq. Kylie also gave me a lovely purple fq (she knows my passion well) and some lovely wooden buttons.
      

Kristi sent me a pretty cream fq with red spots and black flowers.

Xena sent me a piece of blue and white zig zag fabric with green and red squares and some pretty purple buttons.

Rebecca spoilt me with 16 strips of various thirties fabrics, a gorgeous purple butterfly fq and some unique covered buttons. 
      

      

Lucky last was an adorable purple fq with pink & purple babushka dolls from Cylie.

I love my birthday swap fabrics - thank you all!