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Wildflower necklace

Project:  Wildflower inspired necklace Started: 1st September 2009 Expected completion: 1 week Descprition: During out recent trip to the USA, I was completely besotted with two things 1.  all of  ...

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Summer Dress

Finished: 19th July 2009 Project: Summer Dress for me Started: 18th July 2009 Expected completion: Complete! Descprition: This is a start, during and end post all in one as I finished this before  ...

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Child’s Quilt

Finished! Complete 18th July 2009 This was an interesting learning process. I didn’t use a pattern (possibly not a sensible idea for ones first quilt), but I did consult various ‘net  ...

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Quilting

Child’s Quilt – In progress I’m up to the quilting part of the quilt. I was undecided as to whether I would hand or machine quilt, but after trying my hand (pardon the pun) at  ...

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Mobiles

Project: Bird mobiles (2) Started: July 2008 Expected completion: ASAP! Descprition: Bird mobile #1 is for my friend’s daughter. I made one for another friend last year, but never finished  ...

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Kitty!

This little Kitty Kat was given to a friend for her daughter’s birthday last week.I used Cherrykin’s Calico Kitty pattern for the body- very easy and quite successful if I do say so  ...

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Handmade Help

This coming Sunday in lieu of our usual craft day, my friends and I are going to whip up some soft toys for Handmade Help. If anyone knows of some relatively simple, free patterns out there  ...

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