Lovely Labels

I am continually inspired by the awesome creativity out there & most recently I have been bowled over by the amazing quilt labels some of you have made:

1. Label, 2. BQS quilt label, 3. Close up of Label, 4. fabric + paper nanaCompany tags, 5. Brit Quilt Label, 6. DQS10 Sent - A Cacophony of Color, 7. DQS4 owl label, 8. Cutest label, 9. Close Up of Label, Name Blocked Out, Bitty Block, 10. DQS10 label, 11. Doll Quilt Label, 12. DQS10 Quilt label, 13. Cool Photo Label
So I tried to make one for my Doll Quilt Swap partner:

The only thing is - how do I quilt this without quilting over the stitching? I guess I should have thought of that before I sewed the back together!

I'm off now to try to figure out how to quilt this, hope you all have a great evening!

Playing with pouches stage 3

To-day I sent off a parcel to my Pretty Little Pouch Swap partner & am nervously awaiting her reaction!

She said she would love a coin purse with a metal frame & her likes were Japanese fabrics & designers, so I came up with this wee pouch:

 

I used Kyoko's tutorial (http://cottonandcloud.com/blog/free-patterns/mini_purse_pattern.pdf) Although I have made metal frame purses before, I found this one quite tricky because it's so small & when I looked at all the other wonderful pouch swap creations on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/1633419@N20/), I thought my tincy wincy purse looked a bit insignificant... so I made a partner for it:

For the sunglasses case I lined it with some soft fleece, so my partners sunglasses won't get scratched

These are now on their long journey across the Atlantic to the other side of America, hopefully to a happy new owner, while I get back to finishing my next swap project - the doll quilt swap. If you get a chance, check out some of the loveliness on the flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dollquiltswap/