I have something on my wee little mind

It's Baby Bear - Telly Monsters best friend.  Please welcome him to the Sesame Street gang.

Thanks to Celine once again for testing this pattern for me, it's one more ticked off a long list of patterns that need to be tested.  You can find the pattern on the Sesame Street page of this blog.

 Baby Bear

Little Bird and Kami

We have Bird Bird now let me introduce Little Bird from Sesame Street. 

 

I have another friend helping me test patterns and according to her she is only a beginner in the world of paper piecing. Her name is Karolina and she is from Poland - all I can say is she did an amazing job.    Karolina also has her own blog, where you can see some of crafy endeavours.

Little Bird

Celine has also sewn another wonderful sample for me - Kami.  Kami appears on the Nigerian and South African versions of Sesame Street.  Her character is HIV positive due to a blood transfusion she received as an infant.  She was introduced to foster understanding of those with AIDS or were HIV positive.

Kami has made appearances at UNICEF events, at the Peabody Awards in 2005, several Sesame Workshop Benefits and the United Nations for Worlds AIds Day.

 

Kami

You can find Little Bird and Kami on the Sesame Street Page or at Fandom in Stitches.

New Sesame Street Patterns

Here are the latest in my Sesame Street patterns.  I have no time at the moment to test anything so I have two wonderful friends helping me - Celine and Amber.  Amber has done the yellow faced Guy Smiley and Celine has done the others you see below.  I hope you like them.  Hopefully if all goes to plan you will see them also on fandominstitches.com very soon as well as the Sesame Street pattern section of this blog.

 

 Yip Yips

 

Guy Smiley

Barkley

Johnny Depp

After a significant amount of time with no phone or internet I am back on track.

I feel a bit like Captain Jack - "I'm having an idea".  How about some more blocks of Johnny Depps wonderful characters.  There are so many - thinking - Mad Hatter, Willy Wonker, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Ichabod Crane and Tonto from the soon to be released Lone Ranger.  Here is a sneak peak of fun to come. Can't wait until I have a bit of time to sew him.  For those who have not seen the press releases this is Johnny Depp as Tonto - what can I say - it's pure Johnny Depp.

Family Memories

When I started doing faces for my Harry Potter quilt about 5 years ago - I always wanted to extend this into the real world - well into quilt blocks of real people not just fictional characters.

Before I go any further I have to admit that my Harry Potter quilt (or should I say quilts as both my kids want one) is still not finished.  I revisit it as often as I can but it very exhausting as the faces take a long time and are very complex.

Which brings us to today.  I made this for my dad for his 80th birthday late last year.  It is a portrait of his mum.  There was meant to be one of his dad as well but I am still not happy with the pattern so it remains undone.  Not enough hours in the day.

This is the photo I used.  It is a good one to use, as all the features are clear which is crucial when drafting the pattern.  Sometimes when designing a pattern for a face I try several different photos of the same face before I am happy with the result.  I think for Harry Potter I did about 10.  Anyway I digress.

This is the finished block, which I turned into a wall hanging.  I think she looks young and beautiful.

Dad was very happy with the result.

Old Patterns - revisted

I am trying to load all my old patterns onto my blog.  As I am re-formatting them this is taking a long time.  Until they are complete - you can get most of them at fandominstitches.com which has many other amazing patterns as well as mine.

Today I have loaded Harry Potter.  The pattern can be found on the Harry Potter page.

Yo ho ho and really bad eggs

Captain Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow is by far my favourite pirate ever portrayed on the Silver Screen.  His quirky affectations as portrayed by Johnny Depp makes him come across as a bit of a fool but this couldn't be further from the truth.


This is Captain Jack from 'On Stranger Tides'.  He is missing his piece of 8 coin from his head scarf which he removed in the third movie - 'At Worlds End'

The pattern will soon be available on the Movie characters page as well as on fandominstitches.com where it is free for private use and is not to be used for commercial purposes.