Dyed to the Bone

WEEEEE! Tula Pink's New Release

Weeeeee!  Squeeeeee!  Squiddles Scrumdiddle-umptious!!!! 

...and other inarticulate noises of glee.

Somehow I got sidetracked on a break from writing Marketing blurbs for Triremis (our newest website design business) and wondered onto Tula Pink's Blog  (She of the most delectable Full Moon Forest range from Moda).

GOOD NEWS!  (Sorry, I'm still in marketing mode)

She has designed another stunning range called "Nest".  OMG!  It's bloody gorgeous.  But even the USA market has to wait until August!  August I tell you! Ack!

Go visit and have a look.  Some of these fabrics are destined to become dolls from Melly and Me .  But ah, who am I kidding, I am still not game to cut into the precious stash of Full Moon Forest fabrics I've had for three months now.  Mmmmm.  Precious......  (more Homer than Gollum thank you!)

Back again

This about sums up my life at the moment:

Yup.  Coffee, pills to keep me going, car keys (as I be Mummy Taxi - well, and Daughter Taxi for Mum and Dad), school notes and enough bills to sink a %^*)*&^ing battle ship.

Sigh.

Well, I'm back!  I'm busy driving the Black Dog away, and that means Blogging again.  Am still crafting away, between focussing on work.  I have re-discovered my first textile-'y' love of making cloth dolls.

Basically cloth doll making ended two hours before Matthew was born. (Yes, I have pictures of me, in labour, sewing a cloth doll...scary beyond all belief)  I think I have made about three since then.

I was tempted by the most charming and original doll patterns I have seen for a long time.  They are put out by Melly and Me two sisters from Australia!  Check out their blog for the wackiest 'stuffies' around for ages. 

Here's one I made for Matthew a few weeks ago - and documented for Gracie's show and tell project (weirdass things my Mum does to fabric) ...

I am seriously oput of practice with my stuffing.  I am also in great mourning, for I cannot find my most beloved stuffing tool, which Caity's dad made.  Wah!  These tools become an extension of your hand, and none of the others feel right.  It's like trying to write left-handed.. well like trying to write left handed when you're right handed.

But, all in all  I think he's cute.  He now sleeps in Matthew's bed, along with the fifty million other stuffed toys.  His shorts keep falling down, which apparently caused much hilarity and riot when Gracie took him along for said show and tell.  Och, everyone needs a hobby.

Lessee.

Oh! 

I also actually finished two quilt tops.  Yes, TWO QUILT TOPS!

This one from a disappearing 9 patch (which is gonna save my bacon for catching up on quilts I want to make my family in the next few weeks):

And then I finally sewed the rows together on this one, which had been languishing for about (gulp) seven years...  WARNING PICTURE OF WORLD's LOUDEST QUILT  FOLLOWING:




YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Yes? 

Black for the four inch border, just to give the eyes some relief from the meltdown that is the quilt body.

I'm going to need sunnies when I'm quilting THIS one!

I'm off to bed- it's BLOODY cold tonight!

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