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Mine is the Womble block if you want to know

Ok so here's my entry for the Fandom Mash Up on Fandom in Stitches. I get confused a bit with the time zones, so not sure if i got the entry in on time (they were due by the 1 March), but thought i'd share here anyway as i really enjoyed this.

I originally i had a bunch of what i felt at the time were really great ideas, but the realty of getting them done with little kiddos underfoot just meant they didn't happed.  That included using a bunch of the HP character blocks to make a Hamlet quilt.  Then again on Shakespeare i was thinking Richard III, particularly with his actual skeleton being found recently in an UK carpark.  But then again ... time.

Then i got to thinking about things and i was watching an episode of "would I lie to you" where Katherine Parkinson (IT Crowd) had said that in a school biology exam that Wombles were a type of mammal (http://youtu.be/ZtknPjgzt_I) Well it got me thinking just how much i used to love the wombles as a kid.  It's kept growing on me and i kept humming the theme music... Well i had to do something with a womble.  The my sewing machine died (well not dead completely, but tension and timing went so no sewing until i got it looked at), OK so i checked out Gumtree and picked up a decent second hand machine for a reasonable price.  OK, i'm back sewing again.  Then i get a phone call from childcare.  E has developed fever and a terrible cough during the day, and by the way there is a viral infection going around the centre.  Just great.  So nothing got done this week.  Thursday night comes around and mum tells me shes coming up to Adelaide to babysit my niece Friday night.  I organised for her to come up earlier to watch the boys so i could get something done.  Even better and E has got past the bug and was back at childcare, so mum just watched bubs for me.  So i finally got my Womble panel done :D

I've copied the desciption from the flickr page.



Here I used the Bag End pattern from the LoTR patterns on Fandom in Stitches to recreate one of my favourite childhood TV shows, The Wombles.

The Wombles live at Wimbledon Common in London, England and collect things left behind and reuse them for themselves. There are several Womble characters and the one shown here is called Orinoco.
ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles

The Wombles are Hobbit height and live in burrows in the ground, so the Bag End pattern was perfect. I've just tweaked it a little and added a Womble. Originally i was going to add more of the Common, but i'll probably add that at a later date.

I will also be adding the Womble pattern by itself at some point.

Here is episode one for those that haven't seen the wombles before
youtu.be/aCf_PpDUTdA

Not much of a post.  i know i keep saying i'll do a proper one, but here's my lastest block for birthday_blocks

This is a pattern i had in a book and i modifed it slightly.  The book was "501 Quilt blocks - a treasury of patterns for patchwork & appliqué" The pattern was a traditionally pieced block so i converted it to PP as that is my preferred technique, and i changed the arrangement of the boats slightly.  I liked the fabric for the sky and water for this.  I was lucky in that my local fabric store was having a massive sale on their last season quilting fabrics, so they had a huge reduction on them and were mainly novelty prints, but i managed to find the water and sky for this in the pile! :D I tried to keep the sky all directional on the blocks and i think it works well.  I may have to make myself another block for my own stash using these fabrics

Oh yes we did.

Well I've complete item #2 on my to do list for 2013

The Jungle Prints kids quilt (2012)
I only needed to stitch down on the binding for this one so there wasn't much to do, but it has been sitting there for a while now, so it was nice to get it finally done!

Background fabric is the same as the cream background print with the red hearts and brown,grey & red animals

Here is the jumper for Eoin finally finished.  I did knit the hood that goes with it, but will put that to one side for now.  i'm not sure if he'll like hoodies by that stage or not, so it's knitted and ready, just not attached as yet.




I also received a block from knit_finkfor birthday blocks. i guess now that we're in October i'll hopefully start receiving them :D



I have a load of sewing projects that need to be completed, but my sewing room is still not in what i would call a usable state, so i'm doing more portable projects such as knitting.  I'm not sure what i'll do next so i'm going to try and go through my yarn stash while Eoin is still asleep and see what inspires me.

I’ve been sick of late and so has Eoin. This of course was for most of my holidays. I had planned to do a bunch of things and finish off some sewing projects, but that didn’t happen as I needed to clear out the craft room first and was too sick for that. But I did manage to do a bit of knitting, as I can at least do that while vege-ing out in front of a DVD or while watching Eoin play.

I have a nice book with some kids patterns in it - Essential Kids by Debbie Bliss and I managed to get the zipped gilet finished. I ended up not putting on all the pockets as I just wanted to get it finished and he’s not into pockets just yet anyway. It fits him now with room so I should get a couple of seasons out of it. It’s perfect for this spring weather where a full jacket or jumper isn’t quite warranted but something a little warmer around the chest is needed.



After finishing that I then decided to make the hoodie from the same book. I’m making the hoodie in a size 3/4T as he has enough for this size and won’t be wearing much in the way of winter gear until around his birthday next year.

This is the pattern I’m working on


I’ve finished the front, back and both sleeves and I’m currently working on the hood. I make a mistake in one of the sleeves and didn’t realise until I was halfway through the second one, so I had to unpick most of that first sleeve and redo it. Frustrating, but at least that’s done now. I’m also glad I’ve finished all the cable work. Eoin has run off and hidden my cable needle and I’m going to have to wait until I can do a full search to find it  Oh well, it will turn up eventually. I’ve chosen a khaki green for Eoin’s jumper. Hopefully it won’t take me too long to finish and then I can post pics of it.