Back Home & Postcard Fun

BACK HOME

I loved New Zealand!  What a wonderful holiday. Cruising is great, no packing and hauling luggage around but still get to go on excursions and then, of course, all the good food. I met wonderful people and had lots of fun and even took quilting workshops on the days at sea.

And to top it all off, I got to spend almost a week with family in Vancouver on my way back home.

POSTCARD FUN

After being away on holidays for 3 weeks and the blog for a month, it is hard to get back in the groove.

I did miss my sewing machine, so time to play.  I decided to have some fun with postcards.

FOUR cards from one little kit!

I had made some kits (scraps) with the idea of teaching a class, so thought it might be a good idea to do a test run and see if the kits would work.

I chose a kit at random and these were the contents:

contents of kit

This is my first background, stitched with a decorative stitch and quilted:

background - decorative stitch and quilted

First card "Funky Flower":

Funky Flower

The second card turned into a little abstract. 
This was the process:

pieced

quilted

Abstract

Still lots of scraps left:

Made “Swan in the Moonlight “ which turned out to be my favourite.

Swan in the moonlight

At this point I'm obsessed with seeing If I can squeeze one more card out of the little bag of scraps.

Yes!

Tic tac toe!

Tic Tac Toe

I like to play with scraps and see what I can come up with.  I find that limiting supplies to use in a project can really get the creative juices flowing and  usually makes the results fun and interesting.

The results and left-overs

I had fun making these.

Hope you enjoy looking!

Thanks for coming.

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Terry