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Craft/ food story Developer, Writer & Photographer for Newspapers & Magazines. first Book on Quilts out March 2015 with @Interweave All images and content belong to Siobhan Rogers, if you would like to use my images please email me.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Flower Crowns for the win





 Recently I was down in Tasmania and I found a wonderful flower farm in Woodbridge owned and run by Florist Lisa Kingston

Lisa supplied a make your own flower crown kit for a small party I was having for my Birthday - Have a look back on my instagram pictures for more of my Birthday fun

Anyway back to reality 3 weeks later in Sydney and I decided to re create the flower crown fun.

I bought a few flowers at a local florist - not many just a few for colour and variety and then I walked around my garden and cut a few roses, hydrangeas rosemary and lavender.

It's pretty hot and dry in Sydney at the moment so not really a great deal to choose from fresh from my garden.






Here is my little array - I wanted bright and lively, the greens and mustard tone it down a little.

You could choose any combinations of flowers you like.



The other things you will need are florist wire and florist tape.

 It's worth asking your local florist if you can buy some or if not - there are plenty of online florist suppliers to buy from.

Note the two different crown types
The one on the left is a full wire crown and needs to be the exact size you would like and the one on the right is a little more forgiving as you loop in ribbon and tie it on.

Its up to you which one you do - Today I went with the full crown.




To start with you need to make little bunches of flowers.
8 or so bunches will give you enough but play around as different flowers will obviously give you a different look with sizes varying.

Using your florist tape, wrap each little bunch together and then trim the stems short.




Starting on one side wrap one little bunch onto the wire crown with the florist tape and keep going all the way around.

With the full wire crown you could go all the way around so that you have a full circle of flowers but I didn't.



 Voila - One fun and bright crown.

Sadly it's frowned upon to be a grown up and wear flower crowns grocery shopping......




Let me know how you go and I would love to see what you make !

#siobhanrogers
Xx Siobhan 

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

and then I did this

Gosh forgive my tardy-ness

The last year on the blog has been scant to say the least.


I have spent the last 18 months working on a book with Interweave - Its due in stores April 2015 in the US
which is very exciting.

I have also done a fair bit of magazine work which you will see over the next 6 months and another job for Spotlight Australia - due Oct in store.

Teaching patchwork classes

 Launching my website

 writing some stories for the Saturday Daily Telegraph in Sydney

and running my household..... 







 here is the story I did last week (Saturday 13th Sept 2015) for the Daily Telegraph.


I have a few things to blog/ update you all with...... 

and if your after a daily dose of colour and what I am up to??? 

I am on Facebook
and 


Xx Siobhan 






Sunday, March 24, 2013

Easter




Hi!

Today was the first time in weeks that I made a little project that I can share :)


Easter is nearly upon us and I hadn't done/ made anything Easter related - too busy working on huge quilts. 

So it was nice today to make a little placemat and have a finished product in a day!

I think its nice to have small achievable projects every now and then (in between the big ones)




Finished Size 13 X 14 inches

1- I used a Liberty Lifestyles print as my main background and cut 4 X 5inch Squares

I bought this Liberty print last week at Calico & Ivy Balmain - They are closing down early May 2013 and have lots of fabric reduced

2 - I then chose 5 coordinating fabrics 1.5 inch wide and joined them together - These are for the egg shape. 

2 - I then cut the pieced strips into 4 X 4 inch squares.


 3/4 - to create the egg shape I used the drunkards path method of curved piecing and made my own paper oval template.



5 - Square off your easter egg block

6 - I framed the block with 1.5 inch strip of purple and then a 2 inch strip of the Liberty print again

I used another liberty print for the binding 
2.5 inch strip selvedge to selvedge in length.

Which was a scrap in my scrap basket! Never throw out any Liberty Fabric! no matter how small!

Now I just have to make one for everyone in the family :-/





ohh and in other brief news
I have a quilt in the Easy Quilts Summer edition of Fons & Porter :)

and

 in my last post I forgot to add Australian stores that might have stock of Lotta Jansdotters "Bella" Fabric

Which is really bad of me :(

Australian stores need our business


If you have an Australian online store I don't mind sharing your links - It might take me awhile but I will eventually respond to you and post info!

I'm not one to advertise or do sponsored posts, usually because I'm not organised not because I have any issue with them.

All that "stuff" takes up time that I could be sewing! Although it could actually make me some $$, 

One day I'll be organised and have ads/ sponsors or something!


anyway Helen emailed me saying she had stock of Lotta Jansdotter fabrics

Finger Tip Fabrics - An online store based in Brisbane, Australia



Anyway Now I really am off!
kids, homework Dinner etc

Xx Siobhan 








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