I love making baby & kids toys and quilts and have made several as gifts or for friends wanting gifts. I make balls with squeakers and rattles in them, cube block toys, tag blankets, and quilts. As you can see below you can also get these toys or… Read More
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Leather bag
I needed a bag to keep all my many wires tidy and together, so I made a small bag/pouch to keep them in. The leather was from a friend that had cutoffs from a leather furniture company. The zip goes down the side of the… Read More
Maz & Tim’s Wedding Napkins
Friends Maz and Tim got married a couple weeks ago and I made their wedding cake. I also made them some personalised wedding napkins as a gift, with their names and the date they got married embroidered on them. I also stitched a grey heart… Read More
Yellow Elephant Baby Quilt
My friend Orladh had a new niece or nephew coming and want to send something special home. she really liked the elephant quilt but she decided to keep it neutral with yellow, grey and white and wanted to personalise it with the babies name, weight and… Read More
Baby Tag Blanket
Another gift I made for my niece Annabel was this tag blanket. Its made of soft fabric on one side and plain cotton on the other and there are tags sewn all around. This is a soft blanket for the baby but also has tags… Read More
Mountain Baby Quilt
I was asked by Hannah (I made her wedding cake) if I would make her quilt for a friend of hers having a baby. She wanted it to be specific to them. They live in the mountains, love to ski, snowboard, sail, canoe, play baseball… Read More
Red Throw Cushions
I made some curtains and cushion covers to go in our spare room. The accent colour is red and I had 2 old ikea cushions that were cream and a bit dirty. I made the curtains and the button cushion out of thick red fabric… Read More
Annabel’s Ball Toys
I made more toys for my niece to play with when she finds her hands! Different sized beach ball toys. Again I used left over fabrics from the quilts I’d made. I am really please with the colour combinations of the balls. I added my… Read More
Leather Hand Bag
My sister had a bag from Allsaints which I loved, it was red leather. I got some blue leather cutoffs from a friend who worked in a sofa store and decided to try and make this bag. I made a few alterations and it came… Read More
Chalkboard Jars
I do lots of baking and cooking so have lots of jars in my pantry. I wanted to label my jars so I bought some chalkboard paint and painted the bottoms and wrote on them in a chalk pen. I also painted the lids of… Read More