Charity Sewing and Shopping.

 This is what I bought in Savers today. 2 lovely medium weight cotton sheets green and burnt orange and a cotton quilt cover. These will be turned into dresses for the Dress A Girl Around the World Charity. These are the patterns I will be using,
http://oliverands.com/blog/2009/08/popover-sundress-free-downloadable-pattern.html
and this one.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38337162/pillowcase%20dresspattern_merged%20%281%29.pdf

I have cut out 14 dresses this morning so far. the pieces on the side are the optional contrasting insert bands.
I am making an early start on next years charity stuff because I think I will be very busy with the school later on in the year, More on that later!

A.C.D.A. Christmas Party.

 Yesterday we had our last meeting of the year and Christmas Party for A.C.D.A. (Australian Cloth Doll Club Association).  http://www.clothdolls.asn.au/
The committee provided the food and my job was to do the decorations and tables. It was a huge success and everyone had a lovely time, I had some lovely feedback for the table decorations too which was nice.

 Every year we have 2 swaps going, People can do both or one if they like. The top shelf is the pin cushion section and the bottom one is the Christmas Tree decoration swap.

 Some of our happy members chatting and catching up before they went to eat.

 Each month we have a Doll of the Month and those winners are then bought in for Doll of the Year. the winner of the Year was Doreen Backway, this is her link to her web page with the winning doll. http://www.rivendellstudios.com.au/default.aspx?ID=23&PhotoID=307&StartIndex=0

These are the pin cushions, always a delight, I forgot to take a picture of the Christmas decoration swap. It was a great party and looking forward to our first meeting in February next year.

Super Quick Christmas Decorations.

 I had this lot of pine cones for several years now, This year i have decided to do something different with them.

I have spray painted them with chrome spray for a silver look for the table decorations this year. This is with one coat spray, when it is dry I will add another coat and before it dries add some glitter to them. A quick re vamp.

Tuesdays Treasures and Pillowcase Dress

 This was a part of a sheet that I hand dyed, I have turned it into a pillowcase dress from this pattern,
 http://www.fabshophop.com/downloads/pillowcasedress_chop1.pdf
I will be using my hand dyed fabric to make clothes for the Dress a Girl Around The World Charity. This one though is for my Grand Niece for Christmas.

Melody Daly has a lovely blog http://thehouseonthesideofthehill.blogspot.com.au/ and a segment called Tuesdays Treasures, This is mine, A very cute Quick unpick, a present from St Andrews Market about 15 years ago. I just love it.

Aussie Hero Laundry Bags.

I have just completed 21 laundry bags for Aussie Hero Quilts to post this week. There are 5 different prints.

Latest school Project

3 days ago I was asked to help out with making a prop for the End of Year play. This was my brief, They wanted a football sized golden apple that could separate into 4 segments. This is what I made. It is cardboard and fabric with stuffing inside. It is white but will be spray painted gold. All the segments are attached with press studs and velcro. It has the pips inside too, just outlines so that the kids could paint them on.
I had fun making it, I hope they like it. The stem and leaf will be sewn onto one of the segments.
I am very excited cos I have been asked to do more for the school, but no info on what it could be yet, I just love being challenged to make stuff.

Aussie Hero Laundry Bags.

 These are the Aussie Hero bags I have sewn up so far, Just waiting for the cord I won on ebay to arrive and they are ready to go. The Spiderman fabric was a cotton curtain remnant from Spotlight and I think everyone likes a superhero.

There was enough fabric to make 7 bags with, I like the fish prints too.