Star Quilt and Easter Chicks

The star quilt is made from a pattern I purchased from Sunshine Linus at last October's Craft Fair - this one is a charity quilt for CQs.  The Easter Chicks are a little bit of fun - thanks Ulla for the pattern - I am sure my little girls will like them, complete with chocolate egg of course, for Easter.

Stitching / Colouring / Chenilling

I have completed (?) a Christmas wall hanging - it is over 5 feet long - I may add more bits and pieces to it. When asked why am I doing Christmas in February - I replied 'It was not raining when Noah built the ark!"
My first (and maybe my last) attempt at colouring on fabric.  I had purchased a set of 12 Intense Pencils a few years ago and had not used them.  One problem I had was that with only 12 pencils, there was not enough colours and without a white or grey there was not opportunity to shade the bright colours.  I am going to make it into a cushion.
Our group is doing chenilling next week and when I cut my pieces for the workshop, I had a rectangle left over and I decided to give it a trial run.  I was happy with the result and made it into this small pouch which will go with a bag I intend to make out of my large pieces.
The bag with the treble cleft on is one I made for my grand-daughter to carry her music books in to lessons - the singing teacher wants one!

KOKESHI DOLLS AND WRIST PIN CUSHION

I completed this very cute swag of Kokeshi Dolls from the January issue of the Homespun Magazine and made myself a wrist pin cushion using a snap band I purchased from the Smiggle shop.

APPLE CORES

I made this small pouch using the project in the latest Quilters Companion using Sue Daley's technique for piecing apple core shapes.   I have used Japanese fabric scraps for the core, black homespun and another Japanese fabric for the lining.  Sew in magnetic clips from Chandler's Cottage completed the project.

FINISHED!

Have finally finished the 7 counting capes.  The numbers were sewn on with a narrow zigzag stitch - seemed to be never ending.  Now I can move on to other projects I have on the go!

LEARNING TO COUNT

I have made this counting cape as a teaching aid for my school teacher daughter - six more to go!

Fabric/rope Bag

The instructions for this technique were in a recent Homespun Magazine.  They had a larger bag using 40 metres of 'rope'.  I purchased 20m and used 13 for this bag.  To be honest, I found wrapping the rope tedious with the result a smaller bag - will be used for bits and bobs.  I probably will try it again, perhaps making a bowl, a placement, maybe a coaster!!!