Another very quick post to let anyone who is interested know that I am having a bit of a clear out of some chenille and have listed a bit on ebay, here. I got some gorgeous pieces from my chenille dealer recently and she told me of some more gorgeous pieces she has coming, and of course Mr Vintage has a silly little rule that I have to get rid of some before I can get some more. Argh, men.
If you make a purchase, mention the blog for an extra 10% discount on the sale price of all chenille (not including postage)!
"The Week of CurlyPops" day 7.
So the dying was quite successful. I think I might have to find some more pieces to dye red. The colour is much richer than these photos show, a real christmassy red. The top zig zag one was actually yellow. I love dying this one as the fibre content is cotton for one lot of zig zags and rayon for the other, so the dying takes differently.
I'm off to an antiques and collectables fair today. Putting it out to the collectables gods that I'm looking for a vintage laundry sprinkler! Wish me luck!
Are you after a HEAP of vintage chenille scraps? I've got a HUGE bag of them up for auction on ebay right now. Slowly making my way through this huge mess, I may find some more to sell yet!
Check out the auction here.
Recently I have been asked by a few people where I get my gorgeous chenille, and I thought I wouldn't be greedy and I'll let you all in on the secret. I have found the best seller for vintage chenille on ebay. She has the biggest range you are ever likely to find and her quality is second to none.
She has informed me that she is looking to get into other crafty endeavours and may in fact not be selling chenille for too much longer, so you had better get in quick.
At the moment she is also selling out quite a few spare bits and pieces of chenille that you may not have seen up for sale for quite a while.
Check out Sharon's ebay shop here, and tell her Selina sent you! (well, actually you don't need to tell her that, I'm not getting a kick back or anything for this, just wanted to share the chenille love!)
Oh, I also wanted to say thank you all so much for all your birthday wishes! They really made my day!
Check out this etsy treasury made by a flea circus. See that gorgeous snow white chenille in there? That's mine. Check out all the other "white hot" stuff she has included in the treasury as well. So nice.
Imagine my surprise when I finally got around to finishing off my second submission on Saturday for the Ipswich show, I sat at the computer and came cross this fabulous clock from Kirsty. All I can say is, great minds think alike! And I think I like Kirsty's a little more than I like my own!
Ever since I had brought home these canvasses I had the plan to turn one into a chenille clock, I was just worried that it wouldn't work. Well, it did, and here it is. I've entered this one in the "item made from recycled materials" section of the show, of which I came second last year with this entry. Mum and I will be heading off on Thursday to the show to see how we went (yes, my Mum has entered some items too!). Wish us luck!
This week in my creative space I'm still playing with the chenille. I haven't really touched it much over the summer, except to make a few bunnies and Christmas stockings and I forgot how much I love playing with it! I've managed to get together a few little quilt tops and cut quite a few more charm squares to go into more quilts. A couple of days rain have cooled things down a little here in Queensland and that's when the fun starts for me. Nothing more comforting and snuggly than chenille.
If you haven't already entered my giveaway, go to THIS post and leave a comment. I'll draw the winner on the weekend.
edit: the giveaway is closed. posie patchwork is the winner!I have been so lucky lately in winning some lovely giveaways in blogland that I thought it was about time I spread that love around. I played around with some of my selvedges and put together this little heart. It has a gorgeous cherry red vintage chenille on the back and is stuffed. Perfect for a Valentine or to just hang around all year long.
No complicated rules, if you want it leave a comment on this post. I will post anywhere in the world, so get commenting. I think I'll leave it open until next week sometime, by then I should have reached my 250 post milestone, so it will be a bit of a double giveaway. I may even pop in some vintage chenille from my collection.
Please leave some comments quick, I may start to think no one loves me....
So the bunny did get finished. I have named her Daisy. She really reminds me of springtime, her colours and fabric textures. I love how she turned out.
I have changed things around at Handmade Heaven for Summer. I have taken the quilts home and the bunnies and bears and the Christmas stockings will take up other spots in the shop.
For my readers in the Northern hemisphere, you might want to pop back in next week sometime. I hope to have the chenille baby quilts that didn't sell in the shop up in my etsy store over the weekend, at a great price too!
There are so many goodies at Handmade Heaven that I have my eye on (wink wink, Mother), I think I'll dedicate a whole post to them tomorrow. Have to try and drag out this Blogtober thing you know!
Isn't she beautiful? All finished and heading off to Handmade Heaven tomorrow.
This week I have a few things going on. I haven't started the lounge pants from last week yet. I got some great new (to me) chenille that I have wanted forever, and got distracted.
That's the brown blob there, almost a bunny, made from the most gorgeous chocolate peacock chenille. And I picked up this great book from the library the other day and Miss 12 wanted to get in on the creative space action by turning a stray sock into some sort of creature. I like its little pink face.
This is the chocolate peacock chenille, for those who have never seen one. I love it to bits. I can now die a happy woman.
Thanks Kirsty for hosting.
I'm sure you are all bored to death by now of all my chenille quilts. Luckily for me, I'm not. Or I wouldn't be making any money right now. They are selling almost too quickly for me to keep up. Here are the latest two, heading off tomorrow to Heaven. I really love the pink and grey, so very pretty.
This one reminds me of Christmas. Gorgeous Hofmann vintage chenille.
More stashers here.
Once July hits, I start to think about Christmas. Don't really know why, just weird that way I guess.
These chenilles are perfect for Christmas. I only have small bits of these left, and treasure them completely!
Red Hoffman daisy and Morgan Jones red rosebud.
The lack of posts this week has been due to lack of crafting, hospital visits and general feelings of unwellness (is that even a word??).Handmade Heaven however had a very successful week for it's first official week of trade, and I was lucky enough to share in that success. Two of my lovely quilts were snapped up which meant for me last weekend I was in lockdown to produce some more.
Silly me didn't take photos of all of them. I managed to finish putting together a lap quilt made of gorgeous pastel boutique chenille that I love. Hope it goes to a great home!
I also wanted to add
Happy Birthday Mum!
You are a superstar!
