Sister's Gift

Happy Birthday to my dearest sister!

I sent her a little gift, a homemade tissue box cover. It's small and light, easy to mail over to Singapore.

This one's my favourite creation so far. I love the bright blue and green colours, it's so cheerful. I got the blue flower material from Spotlight for only $1 as it was on clearance. I tried adding a self made organza ribbon trimming this time and although my workmanship is not up to standard, the effect is very pretty.

Another Bag

This bag features a clutch handle and a rounded bottom shape. It took me some time to get the handles, trimmings and figure out the shape pattern. You see, I followed the project from a borrowed issue of the Handmade magazine but forgot to scan the pattern. So I traced another flower design and tried to figure out the shape of the cloth from the picture. Well, glad it didn't turn out too awful. And I really enjoyed stitching the flower embroidery.

Roads & Tracks Quilt

I completed this quilt for KK some weeks ago but has delayed the taking of photographs and the blogging. Finally, my wish to make something for my 2 boys as a keepsake has been fulfilled.

I got the inspiration for the name of this quilt from my Dad when he saw this quilt and described the log cabin zig zag design in the center as "Roads & Tracks". I admit I never saw it as that and indeed a fresh perspective sometimes really helps. Based on this concept, I added more "roads" to the top, bottom and sides to complete the quilt. So we have Big Bird and Elmo skating down the tracks in the center and fire engines, trucks surrounded by circuits on both sides. All around, I quilted "road dividers" stitches on the green roads.