Wool felt applique

Before Christmas the girls in the Wednsday night group- Sewcial and the Tuesday morning girls tried their  hand at wool felt applique.
Everyone enjoyed the process and the Sewcial girls made good progress on their last night.

 

 

 

 

The final Tuesday session was such a great party we didn't have time to sew, but I know a couple have completed their applique.  

I have been working hard over the Christmas break and have almost finished the patterns and kits for these new sewing wallets.

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year

After a wonderful Christmas break at Swansea and a couple of days at the shop we had a great day at the Taste in Hobart today.  The Taste was wonderful as usual, we had a quick look at the Salamanca Market - which was very crowded, and popped into Helen Stubbings new, soon to be opened shop. Just beautiful Helen and thanks for the sneak peak. And I finished paper piecing a cushion cover on the way home.
So--- I thought I should have another go at resurrecting this blog and I think I may have got it to work again. YAY
It's taken 2 years  and hopefully this year I can keep it updated.

This is the next shop sample I plan to quilt.  It has been sitting around for some time, so hopefully it wont take too long for me to get it quilted.

 

The latest shop window display. Not the best window to photograph - very hard to avoid reflections, but it gives some idea. Featuring a lot of Helen's - Hugs and kisses- projects and fabrics.

 

A new cushion sample.  This year we will be running  Sew Creative Classes. We are currently working on samples and will have class dates published very soon.

 

And finally for this evening some photos of wool felt samples I have been working on.

we have patterns and kits for these.

Sorry it's been so long but hopefully now I will be able to keep you all better informed.

 

 

Photo problems

My apologies for not posting here this year.  During the past six weeks I have encountered a problem uploading photos.  All my efforts to correct this problem have failed, causing extreme frustration.
I will have to source a professional helper. In the meantime the new shop is still making me happy, don't know if I have slowed down at all, new projects are happening, the machine quilting is coming along very well, classes are just starting to happen for the new year and still more new fabrics are appearing.
Sorry I can't show the photos here at the moment, I will keep trying.
In the meantime you may like to  look at my facebook page https://facebook.com/EsmesPatchwork - you don't need to join facebook to look at this page only if you wish to comment etc.
 Or if you go to instagram and search for esmespatchwork you will also find pictures and info.

Moving on....

To all the lovely people that follow my blog, Thank You.  It has been difficult for me to keep up the blog posts and sometimes I question why I keep the blog going, but I know many people read it so I will keep on.

The big news is - we have finally moved the shop.
The new address is Shop1, 216 Charles Street , Launceston. (Jimmy's Shopping Complex)

 

The new shop front and an inadvertent shot of me!

 

I have signs (and hopefully telephone lines today)

 

 

A new quilt featured in our new window display and quilted by me as well as pieced.

Some highlights of the Deloraine Craft Fair last Saturday (I was let out for a few hours).

Alpacas and below Ken Smith and his work.

And despite all this I have finished all the blocks for Homespun's It's Time for Christmas- now just to get the borders on and quilt it.

So if you have managed to get this far, Thank You again and please drop into the new shop and have a cuppa with me and check out the new displays and new fabrics.
Happy Quilting

Catching up

 

It's been a busy few months, but I think I may be catching up on a few projects. The Homespun Christmas BOM fell a little behind so I put a bit more effort in and now I only have to finish block eight and I will be ready for the final instalment.

 

 

Chateau Hexagon is almost caught up with blocks 1 - 4 completed and the new one started.

 

Here's my chevron quilt which only needs to be quilted.

 

Another Craftsy block finished, only three to go!

 

And a little play on the longarm at the weekend. I quilted this baby quilt that Lauren had made.  Good fun but a lot more practice required.

 

Many new fabrics coming in. Tilda's new ranges - The Corner Shop and Sweet Christmas, some more fun Christmas fabrics and lots of new precuts from Moda.

Spring sewing

 

Well we have recovered from our floods, the new carpet looks great, the new shop layout has opened up the area significantly and when I get all the fabrics arranged nicely it will seem

just like a new shop! New fabrics and precuts are arriving regularly.

This week has forced me to take a new look at my blog after a friend told me it was boring!

She's still my friend - I think. :)

I will try and keep it more up to date.

I finished a new cushion on Friday using a template from Zoe Clifton Designs. The cushion took no time at all to piece using Zoe's template.  I think I now need to make a quilt with it.

 

 

I received these pinwheel templates this week and I have started to play with them.

 

I am making up a quilt using 5" squares at the moment.  The pattern on the back says to use

9" squares sewn together so I will do that next. This is so easy, make a four patch, place the template on top and position it using the guide lines, then cut around the template.

 

 

This is as far as I have progressed, need more time at the machine.

 

 

 

And to finish - another lovely friend from Hobart delivered some doiley's , hankies and lots of other goodies yesterday. The doiley quilt will soon happen!

 

The last of my spring daffodils, but more beautiful flowers are appearing in the garden

 -despite the weeds.

Launceston Downpour Tuesday 13-8 –2013

Overnight on Tuesday Launceston received over 50mm of rain.  While that is not a lot in some areas, it is very large for Launceston.  As a result of the local infrastructure unable to handle this volume Esmes Patchwork was flooded with a loss of over300 bolts of fabric. Inventory on the website will be reduced dramatically as a result of this. Please bear with us while we update the site and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need anything.