The (belated) Christmas Wrap

This post is dedicated to CurlyPops, since I totally stole the title of it from her!

I was very spoilt this year, as most years due to my enormous extended family network.



There were lots of nice little sewing odds and ends, including new fabric scissors and a very fancy rotary cutter. I got a big ole Lincraft voucher too. Which was quickly and joyfully spent on boxing day when it was 30% off storewide. Lovely.




There were some great kitchen things, like milkshake cups (yum!), a lovely vintage jug, an awesome cupcake pack which included a new pan, cooling rack, stand and some silicone patty pans. Which I've always wanted. And a gorgeous teapot with matching creamer and sugar bowl.




My lovely sister got me a subscription to Handmade magazine, which I'm pretty jazzed about since I'll get all the patterns easily now. The ones at the library are always missing. She also passed on a nice chunk of her Kootoyoo scheDUEL giveaway. So generous!



Of course there was plenty of chocolates and drinks and some very nice cookbooks. The list just goes on! I'm a very lucky girl :)

-Jemma

The reveal.

This post has been a long time coming for me, and I'm very excited to show my creations off now!

I actually made this for my sister months ago, and it's been sitting in my linen closet just waiting for a home. It was very tricky as my second quilt, and it's a bit "special" if you look at it too closely. But I love it and I'm very proud of it.




The thing that I like the most I think is the binding. I used the lovely Fii's tutorial from her blog. And the result is ace! It makes the whole thing look about 100% better I think.



My mum just started working again after a few months off in between jobs and I made her this bag from the always favourite Bend the Rules sewing. It was quick to put together really and I think it's turned out pretty nice. I really like the fabric. One question though. Does anyone know what flannel facing is? I interpreted it as wadding, but I'm still not totally sure.



And lastly here are some litlle zipper pouch make up bag thingys that I made for Damien' sisters. We tucked a few choccies and a gift card in them all. They turned out cute!

Did everyone else give and recieve some nice handmade gifts? I'd love to see!!

-Jemma

Eye spy.... a bit of bling

Thanks to Bug and Pop for hosting, and to Hoppo Bumpo for the theme this week.

These are the decorations that I got this week from my lovely holiday traditions swap partner.



I love them, they're so cute and they look very nice on my tree.




I'll do another post later when I have the chance dedicated to the swap.
Busy, busy!




-Jemma

Making paper.

Well not really making it, but same thing!

Here are some photos that the wonderful Damien took of me last night while I was painting some of the brown paper I got on the weekend.



Although this is a really horrible photo of me, please note the stencil. I think that I might make a little stencil tutorial the way I made this one. I used a plastic pocket for it.



This is one doing the prefered method of paint application, stipling I think it might be called? I also use one of those funny shaving cream brushed to apply the paint.



This is the finished product more or less. It's fairly unspectacular. But trust me, it looks very nice when wrapped around a present. I'll throw up some photos of my very coordinated Christmas tree and you'll be green with envy!



And I thought this was a funny photo of me, don't I look like I'm having fun??

-Jemma