Great homemade gifts

Adele received a couple of great handmade gifts on Sunday and they are so, so good I really need to show you.

First, is this stunning quilt or rug made by my mum. We originally came across this design in one of those Australian patchwork and stitching magazines (I'll try to look up the actual edition and post it for you). I don't know why I liked this design. It is extremely girly with all of those Sun Bonnet Sue appliques on it, but I just love it!

Mum spent hours hand appliqueing each Sun bonnet Sue and then also hand stitched the spirals connecting the love hearts and also hand quilting it with more Sun Bonnet Sue's and hearts!!

I know! What a mammoth effort! She did most of it travelling in Canada visiting the family earlier this year, but still so, so much skill and work has gone into this.

 It is a quilt floor rug and sits in Adele's room like this. I thought her room was finished, but now I know it is!

The second handmade item was given to Adele by a very dear friend of ours. Like me, she is a sewer who makes most of her gifts for others. But making a gift for Adele presented her with a big dilemma - what do you make for a little girl whose mother makes everything x 10???

Well luckily for her, she had something I coveted - a 1 meter piece of Wonderland by Moma fabric in jam/pink colour!!!

Now I love, love, love this fabric! I've included it in my own quilt for my bed in the off white colourway and had I have known that I was going to have a girl I'd have purchased more of it in every design and in every colour!

So to maximise the fabric design, I asked my friend to make Adele a simple pillowcase dress and I am just so thrilled with the result! It's stunning, well made and so, so sweet! The good thing also is that it should also fit next year, then with a few mods possibly the following year as a top and then I should have enough fabric to turn it into a skirt.

I'm certain I'll never get bored of this lovely fabric, so I look forward to using it for many years to come.