Captain Cook Doll Continued.

 Getting it all together. The breeches and the shirt are almost finished. Next will be the waistcoat, then the jacket. then the shoes and then back to the face and the wig.

The clothes will be attached to the doll and not be removable.

Captain Cook Doll.

 This is the doll so far.
The body is from this lovely pattern/tutorial.
http://dollmaker.nunodoll.com/boy/

 Building up the facial features.  It does look darker in real life, too much flash. First part of the hair/wig attached.

This is the photograph I am using.

Comicon.

 My son, Green Arrow.

My nephew, Nick Fury.

Lots Of Stuff.

 These wonderful T towels arrived today from Kyra for Aussie Hero laundry bags and quilts.

 This is the request I will be using a cricket one for. This is a donated quilt top. Perfect.

I have made the back pack into a gun holster for my nephew for Comicon. Also a leather eye patch and altered a coat and this turtle neck top altered with the grey bands. I have been doing some research on clothing for the Captain Cook doll I have been asked to make and have been studying his face.

Doll Making.

I have been asked to make a doll for a school in NSW. A Captain Cook doll to be exact. Readers of my blog will recognise the pink wool fabric on the right. I have dyed a piece for his costume in navy blue and shocked it in hot and then cold water several times to change the feel of it. It is much stiffer now and will hold its shape nicely to represent a heavy wool look. The gold ric rac braid from my stash can be very carefuly straighten out. As payment I will be asking for a Spotlight card for the cost of the postage for the doll. My time and materials for schools I give freely.

Something Different.

 My son and nephew are going to Comicon, They adore all things like dressing up and Superheroes etc. One of the things I am going to make is this. A holster for a gun. It will like this.

I went and bought a bag from the op shop for $3. I will be using the straps and fasteners as well as the bag to make the holder out of and bias bind it.

 But that is not all! I have been asked buy my lovely nephew to re cover a couch with Spiderman fabric! All this in 3 weeks. That is all the time I have given myself to be away from Aussie Hero stuff.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

The Aussie Hero quilt is finished. Super Hero logos and Rabbitohs as requested. I had so much fun doing this because my boys and nephew like Super Heroes too.

Tilli And The Quilt.

Tilli really loved the Spiderman block!

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

All the blocks are appliqued and quilted. Next is the cutting out to size and putting them together and adding the backing and ditch quilting them together and then the black binding.

Aussie Hero Quilt Project.

This is the start of my next Aussie Hero quilt. Super hero logos with Rabittohs. This will be mirrored with a border and the blanks will be plain blocks in the super hero colours. Done as a quilt as you go method.

Aussie Hero Laundry Bag.

Another Aussie Hero laundry bag made this morning.

Aussie Hero Stuff.

 Today I have sewn 3 laundry bags. This one goes with the quilt I have just made.

 The next 2 are single laundry bags. Request was for red and white and black. The HMAS Newcastle embroidery was sent to me this morning.

 This request was for red and white. To make them worthwhile putting them into a BX2 box I add goodies, What works for me is the jumbo bag of 10 packs of chips or other kinds of munchies.

I have almost run out of cards so this is what I will be doing this afternoon. The front of the cards will have either a crossword or a word search with the answers on the back of the card. The envelopes are used for them to write on as I add blank sheets of writing paper to them. The yellow folder in the middle has all my info ready to cut and paste into the card, a little blurb about myself and thanks for what they do, my e-mail and snail mail address and Aussie Hero info. I will also be making my own postcards using photo paper.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

Another Aussie Hero quilt finished. This one is from donated blocks by the lovely Sandi.

Angels For The Forgotten Charity.

 I bought these today, 13 of them, (I would have bought more but that is all the money I had left)

1 Direction, but that is not important, to me and to whoever has them they will be just a pillow and a pet. Epping Victoria for $2 each. from Toys Are Us.

Aussie Hero Quilt In Progress.

Aussie Hero quilt in progress from donated brick blocks. I have made it longer and wider than it needs to be so that when I have quilted it I can cut it to size.

Aussie Hero Quilt Donations.

 I had a really lovely surprise when I went to my cloth doll club yesterday. (ACDA link is on the right hand side of my blog).  Jill who does the most delightful knitting for charity bought in for me some lovely quilt things to be used for Aussie Heroes. These are from a family member.

 A brick quilt top pack,

 A whole quilt top.

 An almost finished quilt, This will have to be altered to make it fit the requirements, looking forward to the challenge.

This lovely piece of quilting to be incorporated into a quilt.
This lovely lady is now a friend on facebook too.

Also yesterday when I was in the op shop I was looking for postcards and chatting to the lovely ladies there about Aussie Heroes and now I can gauge pretty well those who really want to know more, We were chatting for easily more than half an hour and they took down the details and will be chasing it up. Every where I go I have my photo album and now the magazines with Aussie Heroes will be going with me everywhere too. A really good day.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

Just in time! I got this picture taken just before it started to rain.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

Coming along nicely.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

Getting there,

Aussie Hero Quilt Project.

 My next Aussie Hero quilt is a super fun one! The request was for Minions.
I used this http://kandipatterns.com/patterns/characters/minion-1-12330 as a chart for my quilt. Each square is 4 1/2 inches

 Over the weekend I made these, 40 table mats.

All the math and the cutting out has been done. They will be assembled into 9 patch blocks in a quilt as you go project.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

 Double sided quilt is finished. This side id for his little girl.

This side is for him.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

 This is the girly side of the quilt I am making.2 of the rows of 5 blocks are done. A quilt as you go method. One more row of 5 blocks to go then attached to the brown and orange striped quilt backing. This side request is the pink, dogs animals and pets side.

Aussie Hero Donation.

Look at what arrived in the post for me today, A 15m roll of cotton batting for Aussie Hero quilts from my sons girlfriends mother, What a super generous gift.

Laundry Bags.

 When I opened up the fabric I found that they were pillow cases, I carefully de constructed them and with added fabric turned them into laundry bags.

Too late to post them back to her today so I will be doing that first thing in the morning tomorrow.

Laundry Bags.

This fabric arrived in the post today, fabric for 2 laundry bags to be forwarded to a lady who has made the quilts to go with them. I will get them done right away and post them back to her.

Aussie Hero Quilt Project.

This is my next Aussie Hero quilt request. Belmain West Tigers, pink, dogs, animals and pets. This is one side of the quilt so that it can be reversible.
So I have chosen to use the colours of his team, mostly chocolate brown, orange and a hint of white.

Aussie Hero Stuff.

Laundry bag has been made, The parcel posted off just in time! Love it when a plan works!

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

Aussie Hero quilt finished. Now to make the laundry bag to go with it.