Cupcake Pincushion

I love it when people come to me with an idea of something they would like me to make.

A couple of weeks was asked if I had ever thought of making pincushions. Specifically they were after one that looked like a cupcake.

I love cupcakes!!!! :D ... well the edible ones, but I was very excited at the prospect of making one out of material.

Now, most cupcake pin cushion designs you see on the net have a base with a dome on top ... not a very exciting thing to make. I love the look of cupcakes with a swirl of piped icing sitting on top (Delicious!!) and so I based my design on that.

 

Aprons, Aprons, Aprons

Continuing on from my successful attempt at the Heart Baby Cot Quilt I began sewing craft aprons for kids. Months prior Mez and I had prepared binding, ties, straps etc for a dozen aprons but just hadn't gotten around to piecing and sewing each apron together. 

Below is a small sample of the finished products.

Each craft apron is made from quality cotton or poplin (cotton polyester blend) fabric and a layer of PVC added to the apron front. They are suitable for children from 3-10 years. 

The apron front  measures 54cm x 44cm and are available to buy on our Etsy store https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/twooffour.

Steph xo

Busy little bees ... Baby Heart Quilt

Wow, it has been a while since our last post!! Even though we have been pretty quiet on blogger we have been fairly busy. 

We have a new Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Two.of.4 where we have been uploading photos of our creations and we are also on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/twooffour.

In early March this year I got inspired to try my hand at making a quilt that had a mosaic feel to it. I had heaps of colourful pieces of left over fabric that I could use and I thought wouldn't it be great to make a quilt for a baby that was bright and colourful and had a big love heart on it. Little did i know what I was getting myself into.


I ended up cutting and sewing together 342 individual, 6cm x 6cm squares to create this brilliant idea of mine. Mind you, this was my second ever quilt I had ever attempted to make (my sister Mez  - the other half of Two of Four - was the brilliant creator of the previous quilts posted on here). So with very little experience I cut up all the colourful squares based on a colour coded plan I put together. Then I laid it all out on my kitchen table which took me about a day of mixing and matching to get all the colours right. 

I remember Mez mentioning that she used to number all the pieces of her quilts so if she needed to pack things up or if someone moved things she could easily put things back together. So out came 342 little stickers that I numbered by hand and one by one all the little squares got sewn together in perfect order.


 

Now, the first quilt I ever made I quilted together with straight horizontal and vertical lines about 20cm apart from each other... very basic, very safe. This time I decided to use my sewing machine to free motion quilt my own design/pattern into the quilt. 

Now, I'm not going to lie - I was very nervous about doing this considering how much effort had gone into sewing the front of the quilt together, I didn't want to ruin it. But sometimes you just need to give things a go and trust in your creativity! And, boy am I glad that I did because I was so happy with the way the pattern turned out. (see below)

In fact, I'm really pleased at how the finished product turned out ... all from an urge one morning to create something new. Not bad for a 2nd attempt at making a quilt hey?

Pink and purple explosion

It's been pedal to the metal here for the last month constructing Amelia's King Single bed quilt so to catch up...

...the custom made apron was a big hit with little Amelia

and then there was an explosion of pink and purple as well as some textured coloured fabrics for the caterpillar, as I collected fabrics for her King Single quilt.

The main fabric for the front and back was a pale pink homespun from Lincraft (bottom of the left pile). The right pile of various quilting weight cotton fabrics made up the hearts, butterflies, flowers and vine leaves that were appliqued on (sourced from Fabric Shack, eQuilter and my own stash). The textured caterpillar was made of (left pile, from top to bottom) gold metal trim on a yellow marble cotton print, orange gathered organza trim on orange homespun, lilac crystal organza with a pink poplin base, royal purple long-haired chiffon with a purple homespun base (not shown), spotted emerald green tulle with a green homespun base, pink soft tulle with hot pink sequins on a hot pink homespun base, and blue crushed velvet (all from Spotlight or Lincraft).