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Quilting in Pink

May 18, 2012 in Quilting, The Crafty Mummy

My Little Miss is a “pink girl” – she loves pink! At one point I think every outfit she owned was pink. Just recently she has started to declare turquoise her favourite colour, but really she still wears a lot of pink.

So when I decided to make quilts for each of the kids beds a couple of years ago, we chose lots of pink. I wanted something that would grow with her for a few years – after all, it takes a little bit of effort to make a quilt! So we chose fairies, castles, and magic wands with pink backgrounds, then we added some other pastels to create a mix of fabrics.

The border is made up of flying geese in various colours, and is quilted with meandering free-motion quilting. The other borders have simple straight line quilting, and the centre blocks are quilted in the ditch.

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Pink Scrapbooking Supplies!

May 17, 2012 in Scrapbooking, Talia

I like pink. I’m not mad for it (my favourite colour is blue), but I do still very much enjoy it. Having recently had a son, and usually scrapbooking travel photos, there is little room for pink in my supplies! That doesn’t stop me from window shopping though! So here is a list of some pink-ish scrapbooking supplies I’m loving on at the moment!

Pretty Party 12X12 Collection Pack By Crate Paper

Floral Fabric Tape Set By Love My Tapes

Pictures Flourish 12X12 Indie Chic Paper By My Minds Eye, LLC

Peach Primmer's Fabric Flowers By Prima Marketing

Cotton Candy Divine Twine By Divine Twine

Free Spirit Indie Chic Label Sticker By My Minds Eye, LLC

Modern Album - 12X12 - Raspberry By American Crafts

What do you think of these supplies? Are they the type of thing you’d like to scrapbook with? What’s your scrapbooking ‘style’?!?

Tags: 2peas, pink, products, Scrapbooking
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Brrr… It’s getting cold outside

May 16, 2012 in Amy, Sewing, Tutorials

Well the Queensland version of cold anyway!

Our evenings and early mornings are getting very crisp and the kids have started telling me that they are freezing so I thought I would make them some heat packs to warm their beds up at night.

I made a big batch at Christmas but we someone ended up giving most of them away as gifts so it was time to make some more for just us.

And since it is pink week here at ASWC I let my daughter choose some fabric from my stash and we set to making some heat packs.

There was no measuring today, we just cut some rectangles of varying sizes.

And sewed them up right sides together leaving a gap big enough to turn them and fill them with rice.

We clipped the corners before turning…

Once they were turned right side out we started filling them with our scented rice. We scented our rice with Lavender essential oils, I am hoping it helps them get of to sleep faster at night!

All lined up waiting to be top stitched

And all finished!

We had to make some in 'boy material' too!

Is it getting chilly in your part of the world at the moment?

What are you doing to keep warm?

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And Sew We Craft Together Linky Party #7

May 16, 2012 in Amy, Linky Party

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