My second spoonflower comp - Greek Monsters

Hi everyone, 

This week is the Greek Myth theme in the Spoonflower weekly competition. 

My entry is all about the monsters (Teras/Terata in greek)

Check it out! very happy with how it turned out. My goal is to sneak at least a place better than the 19th (out of 200) that I managed for the last competition I entered.. now that would be awesome!

The voting is open all week so please head on over there and show me some love!

Their swatch will show my design repeating over the fat quarter size so look out for it amongst the rest.

Just as a word of warning, you do have to scroll right to the last page of entries to cast your vote (and do remember that there is a "click this button" and a sort of "are you really sure these are your votes, click here again" buttons so don't think you're finished until it says thank you! It just makes it fair for everyone if you're required to look at everyone's entry and not just dismiss them, so it might seem like a pain in the ass but it does make it fair for everyone.

Click on either of the images below to head on over to spoonflower look for the "Vote for the fabric of the week" image like the one below"

Thank you thank you thank you!

Have a great weekend, see you on the flip side!

The good, the bad and the fugly

I had a comment over on my BAQS Sewing machine review about the great quality of my stitches on one of my recent quilts.

Now I know the magic of cinema (namely my scrutiny of the photos I'd taken) make it seem like the stitches are flawless but nothing could be further from the truth.

So to encourage you to give the freemotion a go, much like when I revealed my profile pic was very much a product of photoshop, today I'm going to show you some of the pics that were left on the cutting room floor!

Click on any image below to see the bigger version!

And for an extra special treat, the following are my very first freemotion messes when I was using my brother nv400, I was just starting out my freemotion journey! The tension is all over the place and every second one had eyelashes on the back .. but you have to start SOMEWHERE!

The message of the day is "no excuses"

If you want to give it a go - do it.

If you want to get better at doing it,  do it more

Perfect stitches 100% of the time is a myth! a goal, or an aim maybe, but certainly not a reality!

Seriously, "they" go on and on about this, but free motion is one of those practice practice practice things.. especially on the domestic machines, its all about you getting you know your machine better, and you cant do that if you're not using it! go .. go now! sew some freemotion messes and post me a link in the comments below to your masterpieces! Embrace the snags, learn from the loops, and if it really starts to get messy and get on your nerves.. stop,, make a cup of tea, take a break or try again tomorrow.

"no excuses" what are you still doing here?!? 

Merit Certificate

Hi all, 

Just a quick helloo,

My first spoonflower comp has been and gone, and although I didn't place in the top 10 (aaaaw)

I did see that they'd picked mine as "Past Contest Picks", not entirely sure what that means and how it got there but a big thanks to spoonflower I think. I found it by reviewing my votes from this weeks entrants, it doesn't seem to show up anywhere else, but yay.. it looks like it will stay there for at least for the next three weeks!

The next competition that I hope to have something ready for is not for another couple of weeks, the theme is Greek Myths, so watch this space, I'll let you know when its time to get the ol voting finger out again.

Take care, Go create something!

Bad Ass Brother

Check Me Out!

World Famous (not only) In New Zealand!

Maddie, the BadAss Queen over at BadAss Quilters Society asked me to write a review for my Sewing Machine. Today she has posted it up on her website for all to see.... (Eeek!)

Anyways, Please go visit her website to have a read .. Click on the Bad Ass image below, 

Give her (and me!) a shout out

Here's to many more reviews in the future.. It was crazy hard, but really fun and rewarding

Take care, enjoy the rest of the week, bring on the weekend!

Two bits of news for my second post of the day

Its not often I have a lot of quilty news these days, but while I'm on a roll and before I go sort out dinner, here are the links to two .. get that?! .. TWO projects that I've recently added to my websites project page

They've finally made their way to their new owners so I can safely put it out there on t'internet!

Click on the images below to follow the website links!

     

Congratulations to the two new sets of parents! 

Take care everyone

Have a great weekend

Vote for my Spoonflower Pop Art Chickens ... Please :)

I'm in!

So I was chosen to be in the competition, I didn't see the fine print and saw that not everyone gets in, although they do limit it to 13 pages of entrants!

So if you could kindly click on the image above, you'll head on over to the spoonflower website to enter your vote.. you may need to get a spoonflower account.. and when voting remember to scroll right to the last page of entrants, because only then does your vote get registered, when you click on a little "vote now" sort of button right at the bottom.. they don't make it easy, but they certainly make sure you see everyone's entries, seems fair enough!

Remember, my entry looks like this!

So send me a little love by giving my Pop Art Chickens the big thumbs up over on spoonflower.com

Spoonflower Pop Art Chickens

Hi All, 

Just thought I'd let you know in advance that next week I'll be bugging you to head over to Spoonflower to vote for my Pop Art Chicken entry!

What do you think? I'm loving how it turned out.

If it gets a rave review I'll be posting it for sale up on spoonflower too, so watch this space!

Its Monday morning here in the land of the long white cloud (Aotearoa/New Zealand) but the clouds are definately a bit grey looking today. I think it might be time for a cup of tea to start things the right way. 

My NZQuilter magazine also arrived at the end of last week, so I may have to reserve a few minutes to let all the quilty goodness soak in.

Have a great week

Take care