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Festive Fair
Earlier this week I attended a ‘Festive Fair’ in the capital and sold some of my wall hangings including the ‘Forest Giant’ and the ‘Male Pied Hornbill’ which I have only just finished. It was a long...
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Heliconia flower
With the rain forest quilt finished I felt ready to start on a new project and I decided I would do a flower design this time. Several years ago I made a small sample block of a heliconia, or bird of...
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New Gecko Design
A few weeks ago we were sitting on the patio in the evening and there must have been something hatching out because there were geckos everywhere. All shapes and sizes, feasting voraciously ans snapping...
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Frangipani wall hanging
I was recently commissioned by a friend to make a floral design wall hanging in neutral colours and the idea appealed to me. For the flower I chose a single frangipani adapted from a design that I had...
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New hornbill wall hanging
Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on a new hornbill design for a wall hanging, based on this photo which I took a while ago. I imported the photo into EQ6 and then because of the...
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Butterfly on Flower – work in progress
For a long time I have wanted to do something with a photo that I took in Thailand of a butterfly on a flower. Originally I had thought of creating a cross stitch design but never got very far with it,...
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Going Green Challenge
I belong to a yahoo challenge group linked to my Janome sewing machine and in March it was my turn to lead the challenge for that month. The theme I chose was ‘Going Green’ and it opened itself up to...
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Toucan wall hanging
My blog has been rather neglected over the past few weeks as I have been so busy, but I haven’t been neglecting my sewing and this is a project I made several weeks ago for a friend. This is a...
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Iban Design
There was a power cut in the early hours of yesterday morning, and as it was a public holiday to celebrate the first day of Hari Raya I didn’t hold out much hope of it being fixed very soon. Luckily it...
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Birds Nest Ferns
These birds nest ferns normally grow high up in the canopy, but they happily grow at ground level too. This one which we got as a small plant a number of years ago has turned into a beautiful specimen,...
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