Peppermint Patcher http://peppermintpatcher.wordpress.com a place for quilting, quality conversation, quick wit and quirky philosophy Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/559fdf5c2f78872504bfb2df81be04ca?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Peppermint Patcher http://peppermintpatcher.wordpress.com Things to Make my Heart Sing http://peppermintpatcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/things-to-make-my-heart-sing/ http://peppermintpatcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/things-to-make-my-heart-sing/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:35:31 +0000 peppermintpatcher http://peppermintpatcher.wordpress.com/?p=1503 ]]>

I have been busy making Christmas dresses.

Teeny, tiny Christmas dresses.

I’d love to tell you that, due to the fact that I am an adult, I made them to meet a responsibility…

to increase the household income…

to make productive use of idle time…

to meet a deadline…

to demonstrate skills and quality work abilities…

However, in reality, I made them because I love them. I love the fabrics, I love stitching every stitch into them and I love how tiny they are when they are finished.

They make me happy.

They can make you happy too if you like. Just call by my website where they are all for sale. I’d be more than happy to send one to you.

I cannot send you this one…

This one is going to be worn by the lovely Miss Lily. I can’t wait to see her in it!

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this edition of the Quilters Companion magazine?

It’s brand new and has only just arrived in newsagencies.

You should buy it and turn directly to page 76.

The quilt on page 76 is particularly lovely…

it has appliqued flowers and birds.

The quilt on page 76 is mine…

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Can you believe that this beautiful quilt…

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is actually a cake!

A most delicious cake…

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made by the very clever Leoni from Happy Cakes.

Kirsty cut this magnificent cake to celebrate the official opening of her gorgeous shop – Pompom Rouge.

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We ate the cake to celebrate the opening of Pompom Rouge.

It was gooooooooood!

Congratulations Kirsty!

PS Please got to visit the Oz Material Girls blog. They are having a competition with one of my quilt patterns as the prize. You should enter… you really should.

 

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I am so very excited.

Check this out…

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The lovley Louise from patternsonly.com is a wonderful supporter of Australian quilt designers. Recently she contacted me very keen to stock and promote my quilting patterns.

Today my quilts have been the feature on her website and her facebook page. I was amazed to see them there because they look so lovely!

It inspires me to get busy and design and make a whole lot more!

I just wish that every day had 28 hours…

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Tonight I had seven tiny bodices to stitch to seven tiny skirts.

I packed up my gear and headed to stitching. After just one bodice the power went out.

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So after two hours of sitting in the dark, solving the problems of the world we all went home.

Now I have six tiny bodices to stitch to six tiny skirts…

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If you come to my house…

and you decide you’d like to relax…

don’t swing in the hammock

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because it’s already taken.

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has been my recent focus.

The binding has been hand-stitched…

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to finish it off.

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The details are beautiful…

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and I hope it brings the gift of memory to its owner.

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It will be in your hands very soon, Sheye.

xx

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Hand-stitching is a bit like eating chocolate…

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Once you start, it’s very difficult to stop.

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I do and she is lovely.

A little while ago I made quilt. When I had finished I decided which fabric I would use for the binding only to discover that I had none left.

I looked on the internet, but couldn’t find it anywhere. It seemed that it was no longer available.

THEN…

I went to visit Lisa’s beautiful blog and discovered that she was using the exact fabric in extraordinarily crafty ways.

When I asked her where she had bought it she went right out and bought some for me. She bought it just for me! 

Look how beautifully she presented it.

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Lisa is so lovely (and a bit naughty) because when I opened my parcel I found more than just this piece of fabric.

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Inside the little package was more beautiful fabric. Lisa may, in fact, be a mind reader because I have been looking with love at these fabrics for quite some time!

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Thank you so very much, Lisa. You are incredibly generous and thoughtful. Keep an eye on your letter box. Something special is on its way to you.

Before I go, Lesley asked me to show a photo of the whole musk stick quilt.

Here it is, as requested…

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(are yummy!)

Someone at my Pete’s work had a baby this week. A baby girl. My Pete, who rarely asks anything of me, asked me to make her a quilt.

So I went to Kirsty’s shop to find some beautifully girly fabric and used it to make some beautifully girly flower appliques.

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When I finished I thought how much these lolly-like colours reminded me of musk sticks.

As luck would have it I live very close to a shop which sells musk sticks…

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so I bought some. Just for this photo shoot, you understand.

Then, because I abhor waste…

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I ate them all up!

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