The new Bonds Baby

How cute is this?   Emma, our company’s new little Aussie expat on her new quilt.   Just love the tummy Emma!

Happy Lunar New Year!

Some local colour to celebrate – blossoms and peonies, together with some eucalyptus leaves from home. According to the guy who made this up, they are known as “lucky money leaves”

The quilt group enjoyed a CNY lunch, complete with “Yu Sheng” the seafood & salad dish, peculiar to Singapore, which must be tossed high in the air by everyone to usher in a long year of prosperity!

The waiter mixes each ingredient separately, which are all specific meanings and wishes for the coming year. My wish was for more members for our quilt group!

Hushabye Quilt for Miss M

I took 2 of these charm packs – Moda Hushabye by Tula Pink

sewed them together, sliced and rearranged them to make a Disappearing Nine Patch pattern

added some off-white Kona cotton sashing

the backing fabric

and machine quilted it with a “meandering” design

  

The finished size is approx 50” x 50” .  I hope baby Miss M likes her new quilt!

Joseph’s Coat Quilt A Long – part 1

Finally something to show.  After ordering the Kaffe Fassett jelly roll online from the US, I just knew the boat would be slow, or the camel would stop for a long drink, but I didn’t quite expect the parcel to go via Sweden to Singapore.  The pigeon finally landed, but no jelly roll – it was on backorder.  This would have to be one of my pet annoyances with overseas/online ordering.  If I had known this I’d have cancelled the order and sourced it somewhere else.  Grrrrrr.

I don’t know whether it is the heat, humidity or the cr*p glue, but the whole process has been quite tedious.  The first lot of petals got ditched, but I’ve managed to finish 24.  I’m now unsure whether to be picky about the colour placement or just stitch them randomly.   Might have to make some more and have a play around.

After all my good intentions, I don’t expect to keep up, but it’s a start…sigh

Beautiful Batiks

In Penang, Malaysia, I visited a batik factory.  Everything is done the old-fashioned way and many of the designs were one-offs – made for companies and uniforms.
Very time consuming and makes my efforts at batik look particularly feeble!


 
    
 

Happy New Year!

A few snaps of our family holiday over Christmas / New Year in Malaysia.

The bus we all wanted to ride on….the “First Class Massage Coach”

KL from hotel window and very wet…

Two quite different sides to Penang…

My favourite…the Cameron Highlands…

    ….then found this on the pillow….    and finally Malacca…

   

Merry Christmas from Singapore

I hope Santa was not late visiting any of the children around the world. His reindeer seemed to have been waylaid and were snapped shopping on Orchard Road.  Looks like they love shoes and makeup just like the rest of us….