Fading away

I have been a bit stuck with entering the whiplash comp this month, as just about everything I craft with is inspired and created with recycled materials, usually fabrics .
so I've been pondering over what to enter.
i ve been wanting to make a quilt for Arkie, and
I have so many little scrappy bits of fabric that i hoard, not so much because they are beautiful, although a lot of them are, but we dont have an abundance of lovely old fabrics around here and every little bit is treasured.
I make kids clothes from them for the market and dolls, so the left overs have gone into this quilt.

there are sheets, aprons, tea towels, rags, (bits of lovely fabric unapreciated by the op shop sorters cut up into rags), table cloths, pillowcases and trims .

i love how all these mix matched colours and tones work, the softness and fadedness seems to pull it all together I am now on the look out for some recycled wadding, i am heading to sydney and plan to check out the bower, maybe pick up a rejected doona/blanket. Has anyone ever quilted with something other than new wadding, i would love some tips if you have.

go the recycling, I am loving this whole shift in awareness at the moment, doing our bit for
Mother Earth

more dolls

I finally got some shots of the 2 new big dolls I'd been working on.

again....so much fun to make.

I didn't have any luck with them at the last market, actually I was really surprised as this time i sat and watched the crowd more, and it was actually pretty conservative.

Alot of tourists come to the market to oohh and aahh at the stuff but would never actually buy it to display in their homes.

When I say I didnt have any luck well I sold one to a sweet young girl and that made me pretty happy, she was so excited to buy her, remember that feeling going shopping as a teenager with mum and dad, money burnig a hole in your pocket, you really want to buy something great to mark the day, to spend the afternoon thinking about the great thing in your bag.
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the dolls are in the shop too.......

I have a shop

I finally got something in my etsy shop, it wasnt so hard. Go and have a look.

a sweet little mermaid, again the inspiration came from coco, thank you coco.

i have another 5 on the go at the moment.

I'm also attempting a very quick quilt, I was inspired by kath red yet again over at whipup. my fabric stash is not all that great though and i am mostly using old sheets that i've collected over the past year in the somewhat opshop baren coffs coast, not alot of thrfting goodness around here.

it is still kinda lovely though