Day by Day

Handmade day by day... Enjoyed every day! ꩜ IG: @jenniferlynisbet

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Pojagi lamp shade prototype

2026 | Linen scraps | Repurposed timber palette

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Spring baby blanket! For Aki, Jim and Haru.

Aki asked me to make a baby blanket in my patchwork style using happy springtime colours 🌱🌸🐣🌷 a special request!!!

I am so pleased with how this turned out. Making a blanket is a precious thing because a baby blanket carries such a feeling of loving memories yet to be made.

While sewing I'm just imagining myself as a baby seeing everything in the world for the first time, looking at the colours and noticing if they make me feel happy or calm.

For Aki & Jim's Haru (春) Thank you <3

A bit about the technique - the quilt was hand-quilted meaning that the top, middle and bottom layer were stitched together by hand (so that the layers are locked in together over time).

While slow, hand-quilting creates a soft natural texture and overall charm that a machine could never achieve! It’s an old tradition that I think is worth exploring in its reminder of what we have to gain by taking our time. As the story goes, slow and steady wins the race 🐢💕

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Fruit Basket Applique (2026)

Inspired by the fruit basket paintings of Emma Gale.

I love how many variations of the fruit basket that Emma paints, changing the colour palette & the way the fruits are stacked, but never changing the composition or the subject.

Cream walls, blue walls, orange tables, green tables, hibiscus tablecloths, painted baskets, stone baskets, woven baskets, wooden baskets, oranges, bananas, papayas, melons and lemons.

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Exhibition: Threshold Projects (2025)

Making quilts out of everyday household items is something that is common across quilting traditions, being a simple and cheap way to make something to keep warm- re-purposing fabric we already have, such as old pillow cases, bedsheets, towels, clothes etc.

This patchwork piece is made purely with offcuts from older sewing projects and also some found fabrics, including hemmed jeans and an aesop carry bag.

It's inspired by Korean Pojagi - traditional gift wrapping cloths - which uses encased seams, also known as a 'flat-felled'. This is the most exquisite seam due to its tidiness and use-ability on each side. There is no "wrong" or "back" side. Each side and each direction is beautiful!

This piece was for Threshold Projects group exhibition last year, which I was gratefully invited by Connor to participate in.

I wanted to make something precious out of throwaway scraps. Something that I could cherish indeed.

I also wanted to practice simplicity and restraint, not reaching for a dazzling new idea but rather seeing the gorgeous potential of what already is.

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Flower applique

Flower applique on pojagi (2027) and some paintings which inspired me. (Left) Gertie Young (right) Ayako Migawaki

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Commission for Naomie's house

2025 | Dimensions: 29"x43" | Linen Commission for Naomie's house <3 Naomie is an artist from WA who paints gorgeous Americana inspired works on canvas. I love the muted colour palettes... browns, reds and blues. Check out her work - https://www.instagram.com/naomie.pearl/

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Tea-staining fabric

I learned this way of processing pure white cotton from Callum, who loves to find ways of making things look natural and settled. 1. Soak fabric pieces in water first to wet the fabric evenly 2. Boil a bunch of black tea bags in a big pot of water 3. Remove the tea bags and add fabric pieces to pot 4. Remove fabric after varying amounts of time 5. No hard and fast rules, just experiment

(above) for our living room, my first experiment using muslin. Muslin is beautiful. It's soft and translucent, you could just slip away into the night with it. (below) for Blake and Tilly's hallway. This time I used pieces of cotton yielding slightly different results in texture.

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Wedding gift for Lana and Adam <3

I wanted to make something to remind them of Australia.

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Shades of gum, moss and bark, yearning for the morning light.

2025 | Dimensions: 2.5x1.5m each Materials: (Combination) Store-bought linen and thrifted cotton bedsheets