http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog Ronnie's craft journal - quilts, bags, beads, doll clothes, cushions, and more... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:25:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After about 1 and a half months, it's about time to update where I am up to since I join Swap-bot. Overall, I am having fun with it. I have come across some really great swappers, sending much more than what they are required to. At the same time, I have ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=92 I have finally finished a few knot bags that I am going to put up on Etsy for sale soon. This one is actually the last item of the color challenge I took part in the last few weeks, this is my pink item... And this one is my favourite color combination ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=85 I have joined up at Swap-bot earlier this month, and so far I have sent out 2 swaps. This is for the first swap, which is called Fat 1/4 Material Fantasy Swap red,white and blue And this is for the second swap, which is called FS Boon Bag Swap #8 – Summer ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=74 Last weekend our local quilting society held a Quilters' Market Day, from where you could find around 20 little stalls in one church hall, and they sold a lot of fabrics (mostly fat quarters), magazines, books, patterns, notions, etc, basically a trash and treasure for quilting and patchwork and fabric ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=71 I didn't get my act together to do the red challenge last week, so, I've decided to combine my red and green challenge this week. I wanted to try out a very simple bag pattern I saw in a Japanese craft book, so here is the result. I copied the pattern from ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=68 I finally finished my Brown Challenge item, it's a bit late as I believe everyone has ventured onto red already... anyway, it doesn't matter as I'm happy that this is finally done. This is a challenge for me in a few aspects - I always want to try making a ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=67 I was browsing a quilting magazine in a newsagent yesterday and I saw this little dog project, I fell in love with it right the way and I wanted to try it out, so it becomes the subject of my Yellow Challenge. I always wanted to make a dog ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=56 And here is my second attempt to the Fede + Design + Textile's Color My Week Challenge, it's a scarf with soft fleece on one side, and a patchwork of blue cotton fabric strips on the other, I also topped it with some simple free motion quilting. Feedbacks and comments welcome ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=49 I have participated in Fede + Design + Textile's Color My Week Challenge, and the first challenge is... blue. I have made my BLUE stuff earlier in the week but I didn't have time to take photos until the weekend. So here they are: The first one is a baby blue ... http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=44 This is a bag with 4 rows of beautiful ruffles, in a bright and happy color. I also like to pay a lot of attention to the inside pockets, there is a main zippered pocket plus a mobile phone pocket in here. http://www.gladycloudy.com/blog/?p=43