Sale on the Green and a new project

I started a new project on Sunday, 

it was such a lovely sunny day I enjoyed some relaxing time in the garden 

after a busy day on Saturday ... 

I had a stall at Sale on the Green at Charlestown  in Limekilns.

 A lovely day was had by all ! 

My stall at the end of the day!

 I got some lovely feedback on my new work, my Embroidered Bags and Pincushion Mice were very popular as was my French Map Bunting, Embroidered Pendants and Bookmarks.

 I'm enjoying some studio time again and My Etsy shop has been re-stocked !

Pop along and have a look  Boxoftrix on Etsy

Shirt Quilt

I loved quilt pattern in issue 14 of Homemaker magazine 

and decided to make one for my son Harry using shirts. 

Backing fabric is one piece

 all backed with fleece blanket 

All from a pile of shirts and a fleece throw

I'm delighted with result. 

The quilt took about 21 hrs total to complete. 

Sketchbooks and Magazine

I have decided to join in with Lynn's 'Sketchbook Friends' 

I'm going with my own chosen theme of 

'Captured Moments'

I like to chop and change medium a lot I feel that this would best describe anything I might add or explore in my book from day to day, week to week.

 I'm going to use the little book that I had set aside for housing my Tags, but that idea didn't work out so well so I stopped, but I will keep the pages in there that I started to working on, they are, after all,
Captured Moments 

 background page for snowy tags

 for my white tag

for my vintage photograph album tag.

On the subject of books I bought the first issue of the new
 I signed up for the trial subscription of 3 issues of Homemaker Magazine for £6 which sounds like a good deal to me but I was a bit disappointed when I read in the confirmation email that I had missed out on the 1st issue and my subscription would start from the second issue, (wondering if this was a ploy?) anyway so when I popped into the supermarket last night for a couple of things, I bought the first issue.

 with free Christmas source book

Only halfway through reading it but I like it, beautiful pictures, packed full of ideas and on line info too.
 There are a lot of cut outs and vintage style printed pages to keep including some pretty spotty paper chains (I think these will end up in my girls room ;)
I look forward to trying out some of the ideas and using the templates.