This is Winnie.  Winnie's mommy named her Winnifred, but she hates that name, so her friends call her Winnie (you can call her Winnie too.)  In addition to having bad taste in names, Winnie's mom is a witch. So Winnie has to wear silly clothes like orange and black striped tights, and has to learn how to ride a broom... and do you SEE a dog in this picture?  NO. Winnie is allergic to cats and would LOVE a  dog, but noooooooooooo, Mommy says "Witch's have cats. That's they way it's always been."

So Winnie plays with the neighbour's dog whenever she gets a chance. The neighbour, by the way, is named Lisa.   Now THAT'S a pretty name (says Winnie.) 

Anyway - if you'd like to learn how to make Winnie - here are the instructions!

I started with this "colouring sheet"  from Cart Before The Horse



And used the colouring sheet as a template and traced her parts onto tracing paper in order to use them as a pattern ....





and made my decisions about what colours to use, fused the bits (this was all made of scraps of course - in fact, in a lot of cases, scraps of already fused fabric!) and then used my pattern to cut the bits out.



I free-hand cut her legs, 'cuz how hard can that be, right?  :)




For her, face, a little fugitive media got thrown in -


Dark blue dye crayon for her iris, light blue pastel for her outer eye, a mircon pen for outlining, and I made a boo-boo in that picture - I also used a bright pink dye crayon for her mouth - which I didn't try to "draw" - I just made a little splooch of pink and outlined with those pink and red markers.




As you probably noticed in the pic above as compared to this one, I decided to outline her in black using more of my fused scraps.  But when I was done that, something was still missing... her collar looked too bare.


So I gave her a little bow. 

I also made her cute little shoes which didn't come from the pattern - but I thought she wouldn't enjoy walking around on stumps - after all, her life is hard enough!

If you'd like to make Winnie - please feel free to click/print on that colouring sheet - s/he had offered it for free (only please don't sell the result as is usual in these cases).

After I'd made her a little hanging sleeve, she was done.  A fun front door decoration, that took about an hour and 1/2 from start to finish (and that was mostly quilting time).  If you make one, please link up here so we can all see! 

Enjoy the day!

I'm not sure whether I've ever shown you this little guy - it's a quilted tissue cover I made to go with those little paintings - together they rest on one of the walls of my cubicle area.  The black background is a heavy (HEAVY) satin, and you may recognize the bird as being cut out from the immensely popular "bird" fabric that Ikea had a couple of years ago.  I still have a precious yard of that left.

And here's my list of why I love Fridays:



(card from Blyberg.net).

Next week, I'll have a finished art quilt to show you, a finished quilt, a fabric painting technique and one last giveaway (a fun one, I promise!); over the weekend I'll do a couple of slice o'lifes - should be a great week.

See you tomorrow!  Or not, if we're raptured... if we are, thanks for the memories!  ;)

Have you ever heard of Tag Galaxy?

It's this super neat software program that gives you a star-like sphere with little planets - i.e. a galaxy.  to You enter whatever tag you want (for instance, "quilt")  and then it pulls in related tags (hand-made, fabric, etc.) which rotate around your "sun", and then pulls in all the pictures from Flickr with those tags.



Then you click your sun, and all the tagged photos coalesce on your sun,



You can click individual quilts all around your sun (your sun rotates as you click) and look at each of them:


And if you double click the pic it will you give all the information the original quilter supplied with their picture, or you can click on the information and it will take you to Flickr if you want to look at that individual's photo stream.



And when you're done looking at all the quilts on the rotation, click "next" (and here's the super fun part!) the next level of pictures come flying in at your sun, and you have a whole new set of quilts to look at.



Of course, you can choose a different tag than "quilt", but why would you?  ;)

Happy Wednesday!

Not to mention the achy flu symptoms.  *le wah*

And so, though I planned to have a finished art quilt to show you today, I'm going to be posting a couple more of the stockings I've entered in the mini-peep boot contest that Lizzie House is having.

This one's my favourite - faux pony and sequins and beading, oh my!  It's not quilted like the first one was, but I still think it's totally cute.




And speaking of "totally" - I am TOTALLY addicted to making these little numbers.  I want to make 20 or so of them and do a whole mini tree of them next year.  BSP thinks they're great fun and agrees that we ought to have a mini-stocking tree.  (You'd only know how amazing that agreement is, if you knew we already have four Christmas trees which get put up every year.)



And then I made another quilted one, which I had to bead just cuz they're saucy that way.  :)

I have one more that I want to make for the contest (a shimmery baby blue number) and I have until the end of the day tommorrow to do so - however, I've been so sick I literally haven't been able to stand for more than five minutes and get dizzy and nauseous if I do so.  Not to mention, that if I say more than three words I start coughing up my lungs.  *le wah*



Off to the doctor tommorrow for me; and maybe if I can, another mini stocking for the contest.

Hope you're all doing much, MUCH better than I am (it took me two hours to make this little post!) and I look forward to talking to you all later in the week.

Cheers,

Kit

I'm totally excited! lol

I'm (finally) getting around to making the Pay It Forward gifts, and am doing them in the order that BSP pulled the names, so I started making Quilterbear's gift yesterday.



It's a little more time intensive than I expected (not having made one before); but ZOMG!! it's sooooooooo pretty! I'm so pleased! Every time BSP came into the sewing room, it was all "That's so beautiful!" And though BSP thinks everything I make is beautiful, this time, it really is!

Anyway, I'm totally excited because a: I've never made one before, b: I'm doing it without a pattern and thus far, it's turning out well, and c: it's so pretty! Violet, yellow green...

Also, I'm pleased to say, I'm finally caught up on ALL of my birthday blocks (although I'm NOT so pleased with the Depression Blocks I made - I'm going to send them so she doesn't think I've COMPLETELY forgotten about her, but I'm going to have to make another set and re-send them. The points are off. Any hints from my readers? I don't paper piece...) The other ones are pretty though.

I'm also almost caught up on my round robins (sheesh, those are a lot of work, I don't think I'll ever do one again.)

So, I'm being a good girl, catching up on my responsibilities and having fun with them. :)

I hope to have pictures to post soon. Now that I'm almost caught up, I should be able to quilt a UFO so we'll have at least that soon.

Hope you're all doing well, and in the meantime, be good and have fun!