Showing posts with label christmas decoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas decoration. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Lace Christmas Cornucopias
Still busy making and finishing gifts for close friends.
Above are some lace Victorian inspired cornucopias.
They each contain little gifts and a Christmas flower arrangement.
Christmas is all about family, friends and an open heart.
I just love the Christmas Season but there is never enough time.
It doesn't matter when you start!
I start in August making Christmas items for classes
so I have inspiration for my students!
Hope everyone has a lovely time!
See more of my Vintage Lace collection on my
portfolio site
New Gallery Work Space
On Tuesday the 13th it was an Open Day
for my 'Textile Tuesday', sessions @The Gallery,
in it's new workshop area.
It's a lovely bright modern and inspirational space.
I welcomed everyone and showed them round
and then they could make one of the origami stars
if they could stay or I gave them a star as a Christmas gift.
As you can see by the picture above everyone was happy.
My new Sculpture 'Jeanetta Sculpitori' went on exhibit.
See the origami stars
To see how to make the Christmas Origami Stars
visit my tech site
Monday, 19 December 2011
Christmas Decorations
On the 7th of December I got together my display
for Knit Wits Thursday Q&A Day, the last session
of the year for me.
While prepping I decided to make several of the
Ribbon Folded Catherine Wheel Decorations above.
I brought the kit when I was at Chilford Quilt Show
in November.
The kit contained all the bits you required to make one of the
Decorations and a really good set of instructions.
I brought four of the polystyrene inserts that you
pin the folded ribbon to, as I always like making
different colours.
You can buy the kits from
Friday, 9 December 2011
Stars in the Making
Here are Stars being made @The Gallery sessions after
I showed mine as inspiration, shared the patterns and how to make
them. I love to see the individual interpretation of colours
and designs.
See my Christmas Lace Star
One Students Work
Over the last few weeks Maurie has been finishing
lots of things off as well as being inspired
each week to make the things that
I bring along to inspire and make.
I love the mixture of items and they are so well made.
See more by clicking on the written labels below.
See my Candy Canes
Christmas Lace Star
(front)
(Back)
(click on photo to enlarge)
On Monday when I got back from town I put the
finishing touches to my Lace Textured Star.
It is made with lots of recycled lace and fabrics,
as well as some of the trimmings I brought on the
previous Saturday.
See more Christmas Items by clicking on the
written labels below.
Irene's Christmas
On the way home from Knit Wits I popped in on Irene.
Iren decorates her home because she loves Christmas
and for her Grand Children.
She had invited me to see her Christmas Decorations.
OOO I was like a little kid again from the outside of
Irene's home and through the door it was like
walking into a Christmas wonderland.
I felt inspired and enlivened, it was a wonderful
experience.
With four different types of decorated Christmas Tree
and scenes around the house it was wow!
Irene's dog and cats were so friendly and unique
characters making me feel so welcome.
Thank you so much Irene for such a
lovely Christmas feeling.
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Victorian Lace Favours
Every month there is a different Inspiration Topic
and then within that each week there is different
inspirational projects.
I love traditional Christmas Gifts and Favours.
Here is my version of a Victorian Lace Tree Favour
except mine is larger and can hang on a wall.
I made mine larger because I wanted
to incorporate a Gozo Lace Collar that I
brought when we were on holiday in
Cyprus seven years ago.
It is made out of a linen waffle dish cloth
with layers of lace, some of which comes from
lace net curtains!
and parts of Christmas Ornaments.
The photo at the bottom is students work
inspired by my lace projects.
See more of my vintage lace artworks
on my website
Candy Canes
These Candy Canes are another favourite make of mine.
I have been making them for over ten years and
I love sharing my Christmas Makes with new
students.
In the shops today are so many trims, ribbons and decorations
that I just love to dismantle and add the different components
to my pieces.
See more Christmas items by clicking on the written
labels below.
Christmas Makes
More student Christmas Makes.
I think it is wonderful that these are going to
add to a family Christmas!
Textile Tuesday 29th November 2011
Here are my students version of my Button Christmas Tree.
I love seeing all the different version although they are
all starting with the same pattern.
See my Button Christmas Tree
Button Christmas Trees
I started making this design of Suffolk Puff Christmas Tree
15 years ago for craft stalls.
I am making them again to show students and
new patchwork and quilters
what you can make as a postal gift as these are light
and can be a card too!
They are lovely to hang up as part of your
Christmas Decorations.
They were well received at classes and
several students set about making them.
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Weeting Christmas Baubles Meeting
On Monday the 14th of November, we had our
Weeting Quilters meeting. It was the last one before
Christmas. We made Christmas Baubles under
the tuition of Sue. She had brought in all the
shiny and sparkly materials and trimmings for
us to use. It was a lovely morning as you can
see by the photo of the finished baubles above, we
all had fun. Mine, is the Brown and Gold one in the
centre of the picture. I feel it is very influenced
by the architectural work I am doing at the moment.
See a video on how to make a fantastic
Christmas Bauble on my tech site
See more of Weeting Quilters
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Merry Christmas Everyone
Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year from
here at Quilters Cottage.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Christmas Gifts
As you can see Quilters Cottage is really getting in the mood for Christmas!
I have made these hearts for several years with the year
embroidered on them so they become Heirlooms.
They are filled with Norfolk Lavender.
You can now buy them on my website
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