No Camera

I will not be posting for a couple of weeks cos i have no camera.
My middle son has gone to Thailand and taken the camera with him. He will be back on the 14th.

Games Mascot Continued

This is the nose.
Black cotton fabric, white chalk pencil, and scissors. I traced around the shape, cut it out, sewed the darts and stuffed. Made a gathering around the outside edge and pulled it closed at the back encasing the stuffing.
I sewed the nose to the muzzle and then sewed that on top of the whiskers. The whites of the eyes were sewn on and black marker was used to do the black of the eyes and the dots for where the whiskers will go on the muzzle. The whole thing was then sewn onto the head and the stripes were glued and sewn onto the face.
I had been without my camera for a few days so i was not able to show how i assembled him step by step as i would have liked but here he is.
I went to Savers an opp shop in Greensborough and was fortunate in finding him some clothes. and bought him a pair of blue shorts and a plain white T shirt and on the computer i found the logo of the games. I then made the logo the size i wanted and reversed it, printed it onto transfer paper and ironed it on.
He has socks, just needs runners and a few finishing touches, I do have to colour in his skin using orange pencils, cos he is not supposed to be brown, add some whiskers and he will be done.

Fabric Giveaway

Today's big huge news is the opening of the new UK online shop - Simply Solids - selling the must have solid - Kona cotton. The opening is being celebrated with a HUGE giveaway of 22 Kona solid fat quarters. Want to know more? then click here to find out!

http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/2010/06/huge-giveaway-new-uk-kona-solids-shop.html

Christmas in July

I have been invited to a Christmas In July Dinner, How much fun is that! and we are having a Chris Kringle and the limit to spend on a gift was $10.00. This is what i bought, I went to a shop called Loot, (right next to Spotlight, my real reason for going out) and they had a sale on.
I bought these fabulous table runner and table mats. They are made of rolled up newspaper paper and cotton thread and i love them. The mats were originally $3.95 reduced to $1.00 each and the table runner was originally $15.00 and was reduced to $5.00 So I spent a total of $9.00 and saved $21.80. I have wrapped it up using some Christmas fabric.

Games Mascot Continued

Today i have been working on the face and head.
This is his ears. one has been stuffed and the other ready to be stuffed.

Face, eye whites, whiskers and mouth. Machine sewing parts done, now hand sewing parts left on the face. Also showing only half of the muzzle. Still having fun!

Games Mascot Continued

The next step of the Games Mascot is the lower part of the face. Inner mouth and half of the whiskers and chin.
This is the cheeks.
Face parts assembled. I will be making it in fabric next using the cardboard as templates. All the cardboard pieces are done.

More Crochet and Meg

Another Crochet knee Rug and Meg.