Bye Bye Eddie

Eddie has had his back surgery,

watched some tele

he even had the power button (heavily contested in this house!!)

and now he has gone to his new home.

Yesterday afternoon was spent at the beach

Hard work but someone had to do it!! lol!!

Today I have been off learning to paint on fabric

One of the Bellarine Quilter ladies helped me in her studio...I think I even learned something!!

Back at home hubby decided to paint the tram that goes with the conductor

Looks pretty good, much better than I could do!! Next week I have to get on to quilting and then embellishing and mounting it on a 20 x16 canvas for a display in Geelong later in the year. Exciting!!

I have tried to do some quilting on my Christmas Row by Row

The reindeer are done

now I am trying small stipple..it is hard work!!! Now I need to take a break for dinner cooking!

I am off to visit a friend over the other side of Melbourne tomorrow, so also need to pack some clothes and sewing things.

Happy sewing.

Meet Eddie

Today I have spent  all day creating Eddie. Preparing the pattern, cutting out, and sewing and stuffing...then more sewing...

Ready to sew

The supervisor is in place and snoring 

I managed with most of the sewing until it came to putting the bottom piece on , that was a slow and tricky job...it took me 4 attempts to get the legs attached properly, the fabric kept sliding and the seam was too narrow and when I turned it around the wrong way the tops of the legs kept popping out!! 

Finally it is all together, now the stuffing. I had made a bag and filled it with beans to make the teddy a bit heavier - he is destined to be a comfort teddy where son#1 works.

Meet Eddie!!! Just needs some surgical help on his back seam and he is all done.

This pattern comes from Shiny happy world there are many wonderful patterns over there, well worth a look. Some of the childrens quilts are wonderful.

Time for some dinner I think.

Happy sewing.