Gone To Earth

A delve into the Flickr Group

There's some beautiful sewing being added to the Flickr group at the moment, so, as I haven't mentioned it for a while I thought I'd share some of the lovely things that are being added.

(Made by Birgitta of Birgitta Designs - her Folksy shop is here A lovely little outfit for spring and summer days...

Roseglen has been very busy making clothes - this is one of her skirts

(She sells these through her Etsy shop - here

There's a beautiful Zinnia pillow made by Mellimoocow.

In case you're wondering this is a design from the Amy Butler Mid Mod pillow sewing pattern.

I love this pretty little pincushion. It must have have taken ages to make.

It has been lovingly made by Maximum Rabbit Designs who, between ourselves has a bit of a passion for buttons.

Fancy a drink....? then make it special with some coasters to brighten up the table. These gorgeous patchwork coasters have been made from coordinating Amy Butler green and aqua coloured fabrics. .

Add a real splash of colour don't they? These have been made by Craft Matters

From drinking to eating.... Wouldn't these be lovely to see on the breakfast table ? Sweet little egg cosies;

Made by Incy Wincy of Incy Wincy Stitches who you'll find here A touch of creative genius to put names on the buttons.

These are only a few of the things that have been added and I really can't end this without showing you some of the bags.

This is from Birgitta. Some bags with round handles - love the fabric.

A clutch wristlet style bag

This has been made by LMCreation, who has an Etsy shop over here where you can go and look at some of her other designs.

And last but not least a gorgeous tote bag

made with the lovely designs from Tanya Whelan's Darla fabric collection by Angharad

Please do keep adding your sewing into the group. It's fascinating to see what everyone is doing.

Enjoy your weekend and may the sun keep shining.... (Wishful thinking.... perhaps, but you never know. )

Award time...

Here is a pretty little badge that I've been given by Andrea of Indigo Blue. Thank you!!

And you know what has to happen now don't you? I need to pass it along....Some of these blogs I read regularly and others are new to me but they're all places I like to spend time.

Kitty's Bloggy Bits

Sew Christine

Sew Love to Sew

Craft Matters

Angharad Handmade

Ragged Roses

Laceheart

JennyFlower

Maximum Rabbit Designs

Incy Wincy Stitches

I think I now have a few e-mails to post and bloggy comments to make.... Speak again soon

A little LOVE....

I haven’t really mentioned LOVE yet have I ... no don’t run away this isn’t going to be one of those cringeworthy conversations you might have with your teenage children. Although I am a little trepidatious (I think I made that word up) about what spam is going to hit my blog now! Love is Amy Butler’s latest fabric range. (But you already knew that - didn’t you?)

Basically this glorious fabric collection comes in four colour palettes, described as Heart, Soul. (Ok that’s two - but I think it’s Heart 1 and 2.... Soul 1 and 2 ) As with her other fabric collections these prints work beautifully alone but really come alive in combination with others from the collection.

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Soul.

I’ve cut quite a lot of this fabric over the last week or so and I’m struck by how full of energy the colours and designs are. I hope that doesn’t sound completely stupid. The colours are bright. The more muted greens of the mints, grass and limes are ‘young’ , optimistic, fresh. The intense midnight blues, burgundy wines, teals and blush colours are all warm and gorgeous. I absolutely love the the periwinkle blues and the zingy tangerines.

The floral designs have a lot of energy and movement about them. The bliss bouquet designs, are covered in big blousy peony type flowers. The cypress paisleys have the tight shapes of cypress trees with flowing tendrils of flowers around the basic paisley shape.

The Tumble Roses ... well... they tumble. :) The bunched bouquets of memento and water bouquet look like flowers freshly gathered from spring/summer meadows and have a kind of fresh growing energy about them.

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The paradise garden designs have that stylised flower look of the ’60’s and 70's.

The sunspots are essentially a polka dot design with unevenly sized ‘spots’. Great used alone but when used in combination with other designs contribute to that feeling of energy in these designs.

The Asian influences in the collection that Amy speaks of can be most obviously seen in the arabesque, Sandlewood and Bali Gate designs. There are a lot of details in these designs. I like the lace like background to the arabesque patterns.

But what happens when the prints are combined. Amy’s own website is a brilliant source of ideas for combinations. How about these ideas for starters?

How would you combine them? Do you like the quieter combinations? or the more zingy, zesty, lets live life to the full combinations?

A winner...

Well.... here we are. Easter has been and gone and it's time to enter all these numbers into the 'hat'. Except that these numbers are going into the 'Random Number' generator thingy, which doesn't seem half as exciting, but I'm sure that the result will be.... for someone. Remember the beautiful pile of Heather Bailey Nicey Jane fabrics? Remember that one lucky person is about to win 4 fat quarters ....?

Well, according to this; (Do I hear the sound of a distant drum roll or did my son just fall out of bed?)

The number randomly selected is 12 and that relates to the comment made by Maria of SewlovetoSew. Congratulations ! I know you're going to love these fabrics, Maria.

Now all you need to do, is email me your address and let me know which of these fabrics you'd like. Simple really. (Can you see me smile when I say that.)

Speak soon.