anlabyhouse

I have been working on culling my stash in the nicest possible way. I had a large box of white, ivory, cream and antique cream coloured fab...

I worked with a girl called Lily who wanted a special wallhanging based on my ATC size purses. She wanted abstract yet she also wanted it to...

These are my favourite two ATCs from my gemstone collection. Bearing in mind that these are only 3 1/2 inches x 2 1/2 inches, there is a lo...

I have been working on more ATCs based on the colours of Australian Gemstones, similar to my one featured way back on Feb 12th which represe...

Stephanie is seventeen and when she ordered her purse, she stipulated that she didn't want too many beads because she doesn't like c...

This ATC size purse was for Amanda who has just turned 21. She chose her favourite colour scheme of white, pink and pastels although she di...

Karen from my workplace ordered this purse for her niece's 15th birthday. Karen particularly liked the frog on the Lily pad, the fish i...

Here is a photo scan of the block I did for Patti in the DYB6 swap. Patti didn't specifically ask for a garden theme block but it is on...

This is the second ATC size purse that I made. It was ordered by Laurie from work for his wife Marion. She is into gardening, so I gave her...

This is one of several small purses I have been asked to make for people at work. This one is for Caitlin who is nearly eighteen. She wanted...

Here is my completed block for Anne in the DYB6 swap. Apart from the cat, I did a bouquet of flowers in the centre using silk ribbon, Krein...

Here is the completed block for Catherine's DYB6 swap. Because Catherine included lots of 3D ruched and gathered fabrics in her blocks, ...

Catherine sent her six blocks for her DBY swap with 3 dimensional gathered, pleated and ruched patches included among the flat ones. This pi...

We called our house "Anlaby" because my husband originally comes from Hull in Yorkshire, England and spent his childhood in a hous...

This is another page from my Visual Journal where I have drawn different flowers all using Blanket or Buttonhole stitch. I've taken car...

This a new page from my Visual Journal where I have drawn various sized motifs all using Bullion stitch Roses along with other simple stitch...

Sometimes it pays to be cheeky!! A local antique shop had some gorgeous beaded fringing about 3 metres long decorating one of the cabinets. ...

This is the very centre of my underwater coral reef picture showing the embroidered coral surrounded by lighter sea green fabrics at the top...

This fan started off as a simple gold charm which I glued in place using Gem Bond. When it was dry, I stitched a row of purple glass Bugle b...

Yesterday was hot, really hot, a scorcher in fact. The official temperature was 42 degrees celsius which is approximately 107 degrees farenh...