Hey
My 'apple' design is up for voting at the Spoonflower site. Please take a look over there (spoony link) and see which of the six designs this week takes your fancy. Obviously, I'd appreciate a few votes for mine, but feel free to choose otherwise......!
On a slighty different note, I have been most absent here for a while (life getting in the way again) but I am planning to catch up soon - a birthday, a new business venture, and possibly even a few things in the Folksy shop too.
Hope you're all enjoying a breath of fresh Spring air.
EDIT:
FINAL VOTES CAME IN - I WAS THIRD WITH 360 VOTES - THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR MY DESIGN!
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
2 Apr 2009
14 Nov 2008
New fun, and germs galore
Hello
I haven't been here for a while, we have germs galore in the house. My children both have chicken pox, Teflon boy (unusually and very non-stick for him) has the most disgusting cold, and I have had flu (again, and some of the cold too). So we are stuck at home, no school, no visiting, not much fun!
I did manage to get to the beach on a bright day this week, with the children, and my Mum, who saves me every time we go down with something. It was a good day for a long walk, and we had a little picnic for lunch, and a blowy walk home, good for all of us I think!
And last week, after resisting for some time, I joined this lovely site - Ravelry - dedicated to crochet and knitting fans everywhere. Obviously, I will have to start doing some crochet soon, instead of just looking at everyone elses! In my defence, amongst dealing with the deadly germs, I have been making some of No 2's birthday present - a dolly - to go in her new wooden pram, which will also have a little mattress, and quilt. Dolly will be photographed on the birthday, just in case the children get at the picture folder before then! She has underpants and a pink nighty at the moment, and I should think she might get some more sensible clothes by Christmas time.
Off to another local sale tomorrow, wish me luck!
I haven't been here for a while, we have germs galore in the house. My children both have chicken pox, Teflon boy (unusually and very non-stick for him) has the most disgusting cold, and I have had flu (again, and some of the cold too). So we are stuck at home, no school, no visiting, not much fun!
I did manage to get to the beach on a bright day this week, with the children, and my Mum, who saves me every time we go down with something. It was a good day for a long walk, and we had a little picnic for lunch, and a blowy walk home, good for all of us I think!
And last week, after resisting for some time, I joined this lovely site - Ravelry - dedicated to crochet and knitting fans everywhere. Obviously, I will have to start doing some crochet soon, instead of just looking at everyone elses! In my defence, amongst dealing with the deadly germs, I have been making some of No 2's birthday present - a dolly - to go in her new wooden pram, which will also have a little mattress, and quilt. Dolly will be photographed on the birthday, just in case the children get at the picture folder before then! She has underpants and a pink nighty at the moment, and I should think she might get some more sensible clothes by Christmas time.
Off to another local sale tomorrow, wish me luck!
7 Nov 2008
Not quite a sell out!
Phew!
Well, after a day of sewing yesterday (Mum thankfully took the spotty ones away), to finish off a bunch of pencil roll ups, I rushed off to the school sale. I previewed my table at home:
And it looked very similar at the school (minus No 2 though!). It was quite a busy night, and I made quite a few sales, hooray, but not quite as much as I'd hoped.
Enough to buy a new book that I've hankered after though, and probably some spare to put away in the savings jar (ha, ha, ha). Cue hollow laugh here, we've just had an electricity bill for £390, due to estimated meter readings over the past year. Toast for Christmas I think, or gruel.
Another sale next weekend, in the meantime, if you're interested, have a look at my Folksy shop (rowsewcreative).
Well, after a day of sewing yesterday (Mum thankfully took the spotty ones away), to finish off a bunch of pencil roll ups, I rushed off to the school sale. I previewed my table at home:
And it looked very similar at the school (minus No 2 though!). It was quite a busy night, and I made quite a few sales, hooray, but not quite as much as I'd hoped.
Enough to buy a new book that I've hankered after though, and probably some spare to put away in the savings jar (ha, ha, ha). Cue hollow laugh here, we've just had an electricity bill for £390, due to estimated meter readings over the past year. Toast for Christmas I think, or gruel.
Another sale next weekend, in the meantime, if you're interested, have a look at my Folksy shop (rowsewcreative).
31 Oct 2008
A bit of sewing
And, as mentioned earlier in this blog, I am still creating things for the school shopping night. Although I've got a feeling that this skirt isn't going to get as far as the stall. No 2 has her eye on it already ('are that skirt for me, Mummy?')!
And there is a bag (with matching purse) and another pencil roll up
and lots of little glass birds!
And there is a bag (with matching purse) and another pencil roll up
and lots of little glass birds!
16 Oct 2008
Ooh, I'm rubbish at this computering lark.
As my son says! I didn't post proper links yesterday, sorry, I'm blaming the tiredness!Here's a few pics from the last couple of days - including silly paper bag hats, weekend fun, and busy sewing work - finished, and in progress:
15 Oct 2008
Blogs to visit
Hello
I know I haven't been here again for a while - much sewing/tidying/cursing in the workroom, together with child wrangling going on in the background. Plus, I'm so tired I can barely move some days. Ah, the joys of being a Mummy. (Not).
Anyway, I have (surprisingly) had some time to beetle about on the computer, and thought you might like to share in a few delights I have found recently.
Feeling the pinch? Need crafty Christmas ideas? Then looky here (thank you Rhonda at Down to Earth for the links):
http://mybyrdhouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/scrappy-hot-pad-tutorial.html
http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2008/09/how-to-make-a-charging-basket.html
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/09/26/oven-mitt-pattern/
http://www.naturalbeautyworkshop.com/my_weblog/2008/10/creating-all-na.html
By the way, do try and read the blogs too - they're all very interesting! If you receive one of these gifts, you'll be a very lucky person!
I know I haven't been here again for a while - much sewing/tidying/cursing in the workroom, together with child wrangling going on in the background. Plus, I'm so tired I can barely move some days. Ah, the joys of being a Mummy. (Not).
Anyway, I have (surprisingly) had some time to beetle about on the computer, and thought you might like to share in a few delights I have found recently.
Feeling the pinch? Need crafty Christmas ideas? Then looky here (thank you Rhonda at Down to Earth for the links):
http://mybyrdhouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/scrappy-hot-pad-tutorial.html
http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2008/09/how-to-make-a-charging-basket.html
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/09/26/oven-mitt-pattern/
http://www.naturalbeautyworkshop.com/my_weblog/2008/10/creating-all-na.html
By the way, do try and read the blogs too - they're all very interesting! If you receive one of these gifts, you'll be a very lucky person!
11 Oct 2008
post and run
Hello
It's a real quickie today - I'm up to my knees in fabric at the moment - my son's school has a Ladies Shopping night coming up and I decided to book a table with a friend - now I have to fill it up with handmade stuff! So far I've done 3 handbags, 2 soft clutches, 1 zippered bag, 4 crochet hats, and cut out a load of christmas (I know, a bad word) type fabric decorations. Photos to follow, when I can stand up without falling into pins/cats/small children.
My main reason for posting was to let you know I received my first copy of the new sewing/crafting magazine called Sew Hip. I pre-ordered it a couple of months ago, and have been anticipating it ever since. It was worth the wait - a refreshing take on sewing, really contemporary ideas, and interesting interviews with the latest generation of crafters. I had to peel it away from a couple of friends who I stupidly let look at it! Lots of really good ideas, clear instructions, and not too much advertising to wade through either. I'll be taking a subscription, please.
Look here to see the front page, and here to pre-order or subscribe.
And that's it..... running now.
It's a real quickie today - I'm up to my knees in fabric at the moment - my son's school has a Ladies Shopping night coming up and I decided to book a table with a friend - now I have to fill it up with handmade stuff! So far I've done 3 handbags, 2 soft clutches, 1 zippered bag, 4 crochet hats, and cut out a load of christmas (I know, a bad word) type fabric decorations. Photos to follow, when I can stand up without falling into pins/cats/small children.
My main reason for posting was to let you know I received my first copy of the new sewing/crafting magazine called Sew Hip. I pre-ordered it a couple of months ago, and have been anticipating it ever since. It was worth the wait - a refreshing take on sewing, really contemporary ideas, and interesting interviews with the latest generation of crafters. I had to peel it away from a couple of friends who I stupidly let look at it! Lots of really good ideas, clear instructions, and not too much advertising to wade through either. I'll be taking a subscription, please.
Look here to see the front page, and here to pre-order or subscribe.
And that's it..... running now.
18 Sept 2008
Birthday Swag (or Book Review Night)
Ah, looky, longtime no post. Sorry, been busy, y'know, up and down the hill to school and back 4 or 5 times a day ...... Leggies are a bit tired, back protests, knee totally wonkered. Mummy has to sit down and do a lot of nothing each afternoon in order to recover...
That aside, last month, I posted a pic of my birthday swag, which mostly consisted of a good pile of books! In no particular order, I received:
The Littlest Matryoshka (Corinne Demas)
All Year Round, A Calendar of Celebrations (A Druitt, C Fynes-Clinton, M Rowling)
The Children's Year (S Cooper, C Fynes-Clinton, M Rowling)
Bend the Rules Sewing (Amy Karol)
One Skein (Leigh Radford)
Fashion DIY (Carrie Blaydes and Nicole Smith)
Omiyage: Handmade Gifts from Fabrics in Japanese Traditions by Kumiko Sudo
All really interesting. On my birthday, I looked at the pictures in most of them, and since then, I've been reading them properly. Already I've made one of the gifts in the Omiyage book - the marble bag for a friend's son's birthday, and it was very happily received, and I'm currently working on a popcorn stitch crochet bag from the One Skein book.
Omiyage is a beautiful book, gorgeous photos, clear diagrams and templates and evocative text. It is an inspiration, if only to start writing a new fabric stash wishlist - silky kimono material galore! One Skein is mostly knitting patterns, not many crochet (I will have to brush up my knitting, sigh) and all created from one skein of yarn. There are some lovely hats, scarfs, mittens, bags and socks in here, all fairly easy to follow and nice photos to illustrate the projects, but the one that really caught my eye was a rug made from a knitted tube of all the colours you could imagine - their suggestion is to use all your odds and ends up - fabulous!
The Children's Year, and All Year Round, are lovely - both illustrated with lovely hand-drawn pen sketches (no photos) and absolutely stuffed full of things to make, do, read and enjoy with your children or other family members.
The Last Minute Fabric Gifts is an inspirational kind of book, together with Fashion DIY. Although some of the Fashion DIY projects are a bit out of my style area, there are a lot of good tips for customising, altering and generally jazzing up your clothes. The gifts in Last Minute Fabric Gifts are sectioned into roughly how long they take to make - ideal when you're running around the house looking for something for so-and-so five minutes before you have to leave to go to theirs... I will be making the little fold up garden, complete with soft bunnies - so cute!
Bend the Rules Sewing is something I've hankered after for a while, and I was delighted to receive this in my birthday parcel. Amy has a relaxed approach to sewing, which really appeals to me as it's the way I do things, and there are some fantastic projects in the book (nice bags!), coupled with many useful tips, that I will be deploying on my next machine sewn project.
And last of all, The Littlest Matryoshka. Not a craft book, but a story. It's for children really, but I love Matryoshka dolls and this book so appealed to me - I'm so glad I got it - the illustrations and story are just lovely. The children love it and I have to read it to them in the morning before school. Although it currently resides on the shelf at the end of our bed at the moment, I think it will deserve a place in my pile of 'Mummy's special books' that I keep upstairs in my living room, together with Down Buttermilk Lane, Brundibar, The Keeping Quilt, and the family monster atlas! Hopefully, a classic for all to enjoy.
That aside, last month, I posted a pic of my birthday swag, which mostly consisted of a good pile of books! In no particular order, I received:
The Littlest Matryoshka (Corinne Demas)
All Year Round, A Calendar of Celebrations (A Druitt, C Fynes-Clinton, M Rowling)
The Children's Year (S Cooper, C Fynes-Clinton, M Rowling)
Bend the Rules Sewing (Amy Karol)
One Skein (Leigh Radford)
Fashion DIY (Carrie Blaydes and Nicole Smith)
Omiyage: Handmade Gifts from Fabrics in Japanese Traditions by Kumiko Sudo
All really interesting. On my birthday, I looked at the pictures in most of them, and since then, I've been reading them properly. Already I've made one of the gifts in the Omiyage book - the marble bag for a friend's son's birthday, and it was very happily received, and I'm currently working on a popcorn stitch crochet bag from the One Skein book.
Omiyage is a beautiful book, gorgeous photos, clear diagrams and templates and evocative text. It is an inspiration, if only to start writing a new fabric stash wishlist - silky kimono material galore! One Skein is mostly knitting patterns, not many crochet (I will have to brush up my knitting, sigh) and all created from one skein of yarn. There are some lovely hats, scarfs, mittens, bags and socks in here, all fairly easy to follow and nice photos to illustrate the projects, but the one that really caught my eye was a rug made from a knitted tube of all the colours you could imagine - their suggestion is to use all your odds and ends up - fabulous!
The Children's Year, and All Year Round, are lovely - both illustrated with lovely hand-drawn pen sketches (no photos) and absolutely stuffed full of things to make, do, read and enjoy with your children or other family members.
The Last Minute Fabric Gifts is an inspirational kind of book, together with Fashion DIY. Although some of the Fashion DIY projects are a bit out of my style area, there are a lot of good tips for customising, altering and generally jazzing up your clothes. The gifts in Last Minute Fabric Gifts are sectioned into roughly how long they take to make - ideal when you're running around the house looking for something for so-and-so five minutes before you have to leave to go to theirs... I will be making the little fold up garden, complete with soft bunnies - so cute!
Bend the Rules Sewing is something I've hankered after for a while, and I was delighted to receive this in my birthday parcel. Amy has a relaxed approach to sewing, which really appeals to me as it's the way I do things, and there are some fantastic projects in the book (nice bags!), coupled with many useful tips, that I will be deploying on my next machine sewn project.
And last of all, The Littlest Matryoshka. Not a craft book, but a story. It's for children really, but I love Matryoshka dolls and this book so appealed to me - I'm so glad I got it - the illustrations and story are just lovely. The children love it and I have to read it to them in the morning before school. Although it currently resides on the shelf at the end of our bed at the moment, I think it will deserve a place in my pile of 'Mummy's special books' that I keep upstairs in my living room, together with Down Buttermilk Lane, Brundibar, The Keeping Quilt, and the family monster atlas! Hopefully, a classic for all to enjoy.
11 Sept 2008
As promised, a crafty something
Well, I've finished Baby Nattie's present for Sunday, and as yesterday's posts were all about the cluckers, I thought you might like a crafty something instead. So here it is, a tinkly, softy, easy catchy ball for a 1 year old:
Made from my stash of quilting cottons, sorry about the quality of the photo, I have been drinking wine tonight, so may not be focusing properly :P . I may even be brave enough to go and load the other crappy pictures up to my Flikr - it's been a pig lately, just like my daughter. Who likes to scream very very loudly, about absolutely everything. Anyone want a bad tempered 2 year old? I've had a headache all day. Blah, the end.
See you tomorrow, probably.
Made from my stash of quilting cottons, sorry about the quality of the photo, I have been drinking wine tonight, so may not be focusing properly :P . I may even be brave enough to go and load the other crappy pictures up to my Flikr - it's been a pig lately, just like my daughter. Who likes to scream very very loudly, about absolutely everything. Anyone want a bad tempered 2 year old? I've had a headache all day. Blah, the end.See you tomorrow, probably.
3 Sept 2008
Another Great Blog
Funny, great crafty-ness, and some fabulous tutorials. Check out the Fabric Doll House! I'm hoping to make at least one of these, I know a little person who will be 3 in a few months .... But not tonight, because I am making a marble bag for a friend's little boy who will be 5 on Saturday. No pressure there, then, with all the hand sewing this particular project requires!
http://uklassinus.blogspot.com/
http://uklassinus.blogspot.com/
27 Jun 2008
Things to do when you're slurfing
Def. : 'Slurfing' - to surf the internet whilst slouching in your chair
Please note, for those of us with back injuries - NOT a good position!
I've been slurfing this evening because hubby has been out at bat for the company cricket team (they lost....) so had some whinge free time to expend. I've been to a lot of my favourite sites, and ended up at Burda Style
Amazing - I can't see how people find the time to make so much stuff.
Note to self - less time slurfing = more time making.
Off to bed, stained glassing tomorrow!
Please note, for those of us with back injuries - NOT a good position!
I've been slurfing this evening because hubby has been out at bat for the company cricket team (they lost....) so had some whinge free time to expend. I've been to a lot of my favourite sites, and ended up at Burda Style
Amazing - I can't see how people find the time to make so much stuff.
Note to self - less time slurfing = more time making.
Off to bed, stained glassing tomorrow!
31 May 2008
Fairy Skirts
Well it was a rainy day, and I'd just purchased some pretty tulle net, and a ribbon .....
So I made the lovelies a Fairy Skirt -
Here's the front:
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