The crazy Queensland climate has delivered plenty of rain over the past few days.  About time for some sunshine, I reckon.

Whatever the weather I’ll be at the BrisStyle Indie Designers Market on Saturday 6th March.  Get all the details here.  And on Sunday at The Village Markets (details here).

I love swaps!  I participated in the first DUST swap of 2010 recently.  My swap partner was Rocio of Little Yellow and her delightful package arrived today.  The earrings and necklace are for me and the hair pins are for my little girls.  Beautiful!

I chose a very special vintage fabric for Rocio’s swap gift after we discovered a shared love of all things pink, orange and yellow.  Hope she likes it!

It’s time for the BrisStyle Indie Designer’s Market again.  From 9am until 2pm Saturday 6th March at St Augustine’s Church, Hamilton, Brisbane.

Click on the link to see all the fabulous participants.  Hope to see you there!

Here is my new range of badges.  These creations give me a chance to use up remnant pieces of fabric and felt as well as dipping into my button stash.

I’ll be selling these and other goodies at The Village Market this Sunday 7th February.  I am sharing my stall with the lovely and talented Emma of Felicia Fairy Designs.  Hope to see you there.

My eldest started school today.  I couldn’t bring myself to send her to school with store-bought bags, etc so took some time over the weekend to sew.  Here are the results - an art smock made from an upcycled doona cover, a library bag and a school satchel refashioned from Edie’s kindy bag.

I have also had some time to list new stock on madeit.com.au/alipink - check it out!

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This is another unfinished project that I have just completed - doll’s quilts for my little girls.

The fabric came from a dear friend whose parents owned a quilting shop.  Her fabric boxes are full of wholesaler’s samples.  Heaven to sift through!  The backing fabric was on sale at S***light and the bias binding is commercially bought.

I machine-pieced the quilts then hand quilted them.  I love hand sewing and it was so relaxing to stitch them in my spare moments.  Doll’s quilts are the prefect sized project to practise my developing quilting skills.  I am keen to get started on some bigger quilts now.

Happy New Year!

I have been working hard to complete my UFOs (un-finished objects) and bring to fruition all the ideas for projects that are floating around in my head.  Today I finished sewing a quilt for my bed.  It is the largest quilting project that I have attempted and I am delighted that it turned out as I imagined.  I will put up some pictures next post as the light today is not photography-friendly.

Here is another little project that I made whilst Play School was on - cases for my sewing scissors and pinking shears.  I used leftover denim from my satchel bags, some bias binding from my stash and vintage buttons.  The pincushion was made by Bel of EmBelIsh.  It was another one of my BrisStyle Indie Designer Market purchases.

Next on the list - refashioned clothes for the girls, a new bag and more quilts.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here is our Christmas tree.  It is a grevillea chosen by the girls and their grandma.  It will live happily in the garden once the festive season is finished.

The decorations are a combination of kindy craft and the work of some talented BrisStylettes.  The bauble-shaped decorations are actually gift tags by Hayley of REread.  The little yellow bird cages are by Christine of Little Diva Crafts and the babushka dolls (lavendar scented - yum!) are by Mel of Retro Bird.  My grandma found the knitted Christmas stockings.

I am looking forward to a restful Christmas break with lots of fun crafty projects for myself and the kids.  See you in 2010!

Ali xxx

My order arrived from Amazon this morning.  Only 1 week after I ordered it.  And on a Saturday!  Here’s what I will be reading over the Christmas break;

These lovely books are written by Amanda Blake Soule who, as well as being a mother of 4, leads a creative and eco-friendly lifestyle.  She describes herself on her blog, soulemama.com,  as  “a crafty mama of four. Her days are spent in her hometown of Portland, Maine plotting ways to avoid laundry, dishes and mopping in favor of knitting, sewing, baking, playing with her children, and visiting the beach.”  Something we can all aspire too I reckon.

Until 18th December I am offering $1 postage on all items in my etsy store.  To anywhere on the planet.  Including fabric.  Awesome!

And for those buyers in Australia, I am offering free postage within Australia on all items in my madeit store.  Hooray!

I have lots of stock left over from the BrisStyle market so the stores are full of lovely goodies. Just in time for Christmas ;-)  Here are some photos of my latest stock -