New pattern released today.

Hi friends I am happy to share with you that my new pattern 'Piggy in the Middle' pictured below  ( please excuse it being a top only :0) ).

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To purchase this pattern for $15.00 plus postage you need to contact Patchwork By Sea on 08 8377 3942 or email them on pbysea@bigpond.com 
Paisley Jam Design patterns are exclusively available from Patchwork By Sea.

Also Available by Paisley Jam Designs are the following designs.

                                          Christmas Blessings. Pattern $19.95


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                                                            Peace on Earth. Pattern $15.00

Design copy right to Paisley Jam Designs.

                                                    Bar Cake Quilt. Pattern $15.00

Design copy right to Paisley Jam Designs.


Thank you for taking the time to read about my patterns. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my designs so far :)


Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx

 

Another peek.

Hello again,
I have been working to help get  block of month samples finished for the shop. So have not been getting much of my own work done as I would have liked. I have got the dragonfly design machine stabilised and have finished stitching the binding down. It just needs some free motion quilting on the background and a label and then time to write the pattern. Thinking of a name for the pattern, I find this the hardest part at the moment. So I have popped another photo up to share with you. I just love the colours, what do you think ??


Design copy right to Paisley Jam Designs.

I have started to work on a new design with stitcheries of little snowmen. I just LOVE snowmen. It comes from my early childhood when I lived in England before my family immigrated to Australia. I have to own up to having a major fetish! I have drawn the little fellows and have a rough design idea running around in my head, some sweet fabrics put aside and now working out which threads to use to stitch them. One little fellow has been stitched and discarded as I am not happy with the variegated thread colour. I am no leaning towards using individual threads. Would you like to see what I have so far ??
Okay you twisted my arm.

 

Snowmen fabrics & threads.

Have not decided yet if these are the final choice. Will have to wait and see.
I will have the pattern for "Piggy in the middle" for release very soon, stay tuned.


Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx



Another peek of this evenings project.

Made fried rice and chicken for dinner tonight, which was my break from sewing. Then back to the sewing room I went for more stitching. I have sooo enjoyed my day sewing today. I wonder if I could score another day off tomorrow ? Maybe not! hehe
So I have included a photo of my finished block.

 

I just love the colours and have joined all the block's and I am very happy with the way it is looking. I have decided on a small framing 1st border and will have a 2nd border too.  Will share more when I have more done.

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Night for now.

Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx

Today's sewing.

Well I have finished the hand stitching on my flower pot quilt. I will sandwich and pin it together tomorrow and start to quilt it. So I have started another project this afternoon. I started this one awhile ago and it had to go on the back burner for a bit. Just as well, as It has now turned from being a quilt to a table runner! ha ha
Would you like to see a peek ??

Any idea of what this could be ??
Will share more when I get a bit further.

Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx

Home sewing.

I am enjoying a day off today. I had to choose between doing house work or sewing. It was a duh choice for me, so I am having fun sewing.
But I keep getting the feeling I am being watched !!
What do you think ??

Think she might want me to let her in, so she can get in my way :0)

Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx

I snuck some stitching time.

I have been busy working on stitcheries for a bom for the shop. But I had a day off yesterday, so I snuck a bit of stitching for me time. I have hand appliqued the leaves but decided to do the petals by machine. I spent 2 valuable hours trying to get my machine to stitch button hole stitch without the bottom thread  showing on the top of my applique. Sooooo frustrating isn't it? When you want to sew and your machine has decided when you turned it on to give you grief !
I started with re-threading the machine, taking the bobbin out and putting it in again, changed the needle, changed the top thread, sat the tread upright and then put it in the vertical position again, then changed the bobbin thread, rang Terry for help with texted photo of said stitching, thought about swearing at it ....but refrained, still nothing! In desperation I even got out the destruction book for the machine to look up how to change the auto tension thingmie!! I even found out that my Pfaff will even embroider the alphabet!! Who knew? Not me that's for sure :0)
I managed to keep calm and not loose my cool, I was proud of my self! Then I picked up the tread off the spool thingy at the top of the machine and sat it on my table to the right of my machine and my machine stitched beautifully !! Well I'll be a monkeys uncle.................then I remembered I had this spool thingy I bought that I can add to the machine that has a little metal arm that draws the tread up from the top spool and back down through the machine. Now why did I not think of this sooner??? I wasted so much sewing time!.

Anyway once I started to sew I stitched down all my petals. Then decided to add hand stitched  vein details to the leaves and add details to the flowers. This is how it is looking.

 

What do you think ? I just love the added hand stitching. Hoping to get this one finished soon, so I can start on a new project.

Hope you have a wonderful day where ever you are :)

Happy Quilting

Jennifer xx