AND one for NEAL and one for ME too!

After making the deer stockings on the embroidery, it

got me thinking that I could remove the deer in Perla and

add a robot  for Neal and Me

Something to put a little gift in

I am really keeping myself busy of late. So many things to 

learn as well which has really been keeping my head busy as 

well .

The week before Christmas I was talking on line to Helene

and she was showing me the Christmas stockings she had 

been making on her "BIG" embroidery machine and she 

was telling me on my machine they would make cute size 

stocking so I went to the website and brought the pattern.

I chose the one that had a deer on it 

I was able to use Perla premium to add the names .

and here is what i made for my friends

(used the wrong stabilizer on the middle one )

SCARY start to the week

I love living in my new part of Australia , but

things get scary when we spend 9 hours looking at this out our

front door (and worst just after this photo when the fire reached 

a old wreaking car yard). Scary, but it was great that all the 

firefighters did a fantastic job of getting the fire undercontrol 

and we could get a sleep last night . The bush fire burnt out 

170 hectors and this morning they are just cleaning up and 

making sure all is staying safe.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE FIREFIGHTERS

 

It's not like me

Wow  there is now less than a week to 

go till Christmas and I have only just 

finished and posted my Christmas cards .

Every year I am getting them ready at the 

last week of November and thinking that 

I am leaving that late BUT this year I thinkI did 

leave them VERY VERY late.

Will  show you a photo soon when most people 

start receiving them .

(even Neal helped me with all the envelopes as 

he too wanted to get them to the post office 

by yesterday )

Get Well Soon

The group I belong too over here also go 

all around the state to "Open day events"

and we get to know spinners and weavers 

from all other groups . 

One of the guys from the Ulverstone spinning and 

weaving group, we found out was not feeling the 

best and I was asked to make him a card.

I had to think what would i put on the card , then

I got photos from Jaddy of our Open day at our club 

and there was a photo in there of Dean, and he was 

in his kilt so then i thought OH OH this would 

make him laugh . So this is the card that I came up 

with .

Some embroidered presents

As well as the webinars and weaving and Spinning 

I have been still learning the designing part of the 

embroidery machine and also making presents for people and 

events .

Having seen  a store brought bag that one of the ladies at 

spinning had that had been altered, Jaddy said how great it 

was and would love something like that .

So that got me thinking that I had wanted to try digitizing a 

sheep and this would be a great reason . So out came my 

program and books and dvds and I set to learning more .

this is the bag I made Jaddy (with her name on it too)

 

Made these for Louise that is teaching us to 

weave (she loves butterflies and the colour pink)

Then we  just had out christmas lunch for the 

spinning group i go to and this is the Kris Kringle (secret santa)

with a necklace to go with it that i made

 And a hand towel

 A sweet little set

Then as a extra secret santa  for a very special lady

(This one I made the bag as well the other was a store 

brought bag that i added the pocket onto )

 So as you can see I have been keeping busy .

What and Where have I been up too?

It has been a big busy year for me this year .

And I have had people emailing me or messaging me 

to ask me if i am OK as my blog has been neglected .

I am fine and good. I have taken the last year to 

learn new things (craft wise) and to see lots more

of the new state I live in (Tasmania) .

Still been doing the Make the cut Webinars  

(you will find these lessons in this past years 

webinars )

And  a frame in box too 

I have also been learning to weave on shaft loom this year which 

has been soo much fun  and continuing to spin yarn on the 

spinning wheel . 

A Busy River

Yesterday I mentioned that i was going

back down to the river to see the Submarine 

leave the river . And I am soo happy that I did 

as it was amazing .

On the tamar river at Windmill Point the river is not very wide so 

we can get good views things going by.

And this is the Tamar pilot boat that went out to 

get out pilot of the Submarine after it got out the 

heads.

Whales in the RIVER

THE best thing living here is we are near

the Tamar river and yesterday we had 3 visitors

in the river . My camera is not good enough to 

take photos of them but if you go to this 

LINK TO WHALES

you can see the sights we seen yesterday afternoon.

Today I am going down the river to see the 

Submarine that came in on Saturday leave the river 

will post photos tomorrow .

Teddy BEAR

Meet my new Friend .

I wove the fabric for him on the 

Rigid heddle weaving loom and then 

I used that fabric and made a teddy bear .

even knitted a scarf for him

I am also a WEAVER now

I have been learning lots of new things since 

moving from Victoria to Tasmania (Australia).

Thinking my life was going to be quiet here HEHEHEHE.

With 12 months ago I brought myself my first spinning wheel

and joining group here to learn how to use it . And from this I 

have also been having Weaving lessons to learn the art of 

weaving.

Our lessons are with one of our group 

Louise she is a wonderful teacher and there for any help we

need. Here is my first lesson with the 4 shaft  loom

(borrowed a loom for this one ) It was learning the basic twill

weave

 Also with the borrowed loom I did my second lesson 

which has 80 different patterns on the one sampler

Now I am sooo hooked on weaving I now have 

a 4 shaft loom of my own working on my next lesson

 

Here is my newest toy in the house .

This one is a big project and still  working on it .

Now as a note I am still doing other crafts including

paper crafts , sewing ,ect.... It is just soo much fun to 

learn more things.

T is for TOWELs

It is great to finally be able to post 

three things to my blog today 

This was the door prize at the T party

I designed it in Perla plus and 

sewed then using the brother embroidery machine.

KEEP CALM

This is a prize i made for the raffle 

at the " T " party yesterday for a 

group I belong to in Tasmania 

(spinners and weavers group)

designed in make the cut, cut from

vinyl stuck onto the canvas then spray painted

and then removed the vinyl