May seems to be the month of embroidery hoop wall art!

You know how I wrote that article yesterday for WHL on embroidery hoop wall art? Well, it appears May must be the month for it, because it’s the tutorial not only in my 12 Months of Christmas this month, but on Creative Collective as well!

Last night we got the video camera out, and made a video about this Christmas crazy patch wall art! I should be able to show you the video tomorrow, assuming all goes well with the upload (which sadly, is never guaranteed!). Here’s a little sneak peak…

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Tags: art, Craft, crazy patch, creative collective, embroidery hoop, may, quilting

Sunshine Coast Brown Owls

Guess what I did last weekend?! I started a new Brown Owls craft group on the Sunshine Coast!

If you don’t know about Brown Owls, then I suggest you pop over to the blog and read up on this lovely initiative by Pip.

I’ll let you know a little secret, I was pretty sick with worry when starting this thing. I mean, I was sitting in the park by myself waiting for people to turn up. I didn’t know what anyone who was comming looked like, and as far as I knew, they didn’t really know what I looked like. So I got stuck into my embroidery, looking up occasionally to see if anyone was wondering around aimlessly looking for a group.

Melissa and Steve turned up, and we chatted and crafted. It was a lovely afternoon, and next month we’re going to have it at their house, so we can use some sewing machine and make some pretty birds! If you’re on the Sunshine Coast we’d love for you to come along next month!

Tags: brown owls, Craft, craft group, sunshine coast

Craft Group: French Roses Table Runner

Craft group on Tuesday was quite fortuitous. You see, a while ago I had taken Nanna to The Patchwork Angel, where we saw people making the French Roses quilt out the back. We thought it was quite splendid and so Nanna bought the pattern. Everyone at craft was pretty keen to have a go at making a square (no one needed an entire bed quilt), but when we got there Nanna suggested we make a table runner out of them!

I’d been dreaming of what sort of table runner I wanted for a few weeks now, and it was going to be my next personal project, so for her to suggest we make one at craft was perfect timing, hence the fortuitous craft day!

You can see below my colour combinations, but make sure you click through on the links at the very bottom to see some other colour variations!

Other colour combos:

Pastel Colours, Bright pinks and oranges, dark vintage colours, bright colours (I LOVE the quilting on the first border in this one)!

Tags: applique, Craft, french roses, table runner