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Tuesday 12 June 2012

Idle hands?

Not me!

Not only have I been passing time with embroidery since Retreat...

OK, it might have a puncture!
That's Aneela's little red bus to add to the collection, but I have also started on another mid-size project... a Katy Jones' Spring Carnival mega-mahusive hand-pieced cushion cover.

Using two charm packs of Domestic Bliss, and a FQ of Kaffe Fassett shot cotton, (yes Emily, that one!), I am still at the basting stage, but already loving it.  I know I could have Pritt-sticked them, but I like this bit too...


This should keep me out of trouble for a while; I was kind of hoping these would be my summer garden sewing projects, but they seem to work very nicely as sat on the sofa under a quilt projects too, which is lucky x

31 comments:

  1. Oh I love love love domestic bliss. I need some in my life! Cute bus too!

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  2. Spring Carnival + Domestic Bliss = wonderful! That is going to look so lovely Hadley!
    Such a cute wee bus too :-)

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  3. Cute bus and your cushion is going to be gorgeous!! Love Domestic Bliss. Happy hand sewing :)

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  4. Pretty fabrics. Glad to seeing you're staying out of trouble! Jxo

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  5. LOL!! Am doing one too... Love love love what you've picked for yours tho...

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  6. Happy hand sewing. It is an all new you!

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  7. really pretty, Hadley. If I could stand the thought of EPP I would have a go too, but a hexagon cushion cover put paid to that at age 15 - it was a very traumatic experience...!! Love the embroidery though, and def want to try more of that. Time to invest in some patterns.

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  8. The cushion is going to be lovely. Great fabrics, almost wintery!! ;-))

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  9. I love the bus! So cool. And a great choice of fabrics for the carnival. I wasn't sure about it at first, but seeing it everywhere has made me NEED a spring carnival project.

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  10. The bus is cute! I also love the colors of the fabric you've chosen for your project.

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  11. That's pretty clever embroidery. looking forward to the hexies!

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  12. love the fabrics! Bloody weather - it's really getting on my nerves now :-/

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  13. It's fab how the FQR classes seem to have sparked everybody's pleasure for some lovely handstitching - all looking great!

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  14. I KNEW that fq was a winner and would be perfect for something, just couldn't figure out what!

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  15. Fab summer 'wherever you happen to be perched' projects

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  16. I hope the sun comes out soon for you. Those are lovely projects.

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  17. Can't wait to see that cushion cover! It's going to be gorgeous. And cute bus! Strangely enough, my father received a stress-reliever squeezie double-decker bus in the mail yesterday... (Don't ask.)

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  18. Love your bus! I have a charm pack of that fabric.....oh what to make....seeing your pretty design makes me want to get it out and make something!

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  19. This looks good. I am starting her Hexy MF to have on vacation in case I get bored on the trains.

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  20. Some crafters are good at sewing, some at quilting, some at embroidery, some at knitting, some at crochet, some at painting - and then there is Hadley! Master of all crafts and gradually taking over the crafting world! (I hope that you are a rotten cook - just to let me know that you are really human after all).

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  21. The Spring Carnival cushion will look great in those fabrics.

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  22. Oh wow, that's going to look great! (don't let on that you've seen it, as we might frighten it away, but there us a big yellow thing in the sky!)

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  23. A couple of nights ago I spent the evening cutting out my epp papers for Spring Carnival!! Yours is going to be beeeeyootiful!

    Love the bus :)

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  24. I'm doing a spring carnival too in Amy Butler Love with Kaufman solids. Slow going but very pretty even if I do say so :-) Yours looks fabulous already!

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  25. I'm pulling fabrics for my Spring Carnival at the moment but have to finish some hexies before I'm allowed to start on it. Can't wait. Love your fabric choice.

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  26. You should join the ferris wheel along. I love this pattern. I need to get back to it so I get my cushion finished!

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  27. Get you going all handstitchery!

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  28. Are you the cutest girl ever? Look at your little bus! Fantastic.

    Your hand piecing is just delicious. Beautiful fabric combo, Hadley!

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  29. I love the start of your cushion, it's going to be amazing! Your embroidery is really cute - it's not a puncture, just a heavy load at one end ;o)

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  30. So pretty! I want to learn how to do EPP!

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  31. Hadley let's all get on the bus ( reason for flat tyre no doubt) and go south to visit Annabella for some sunshine and stitching!

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