Easter, school holidays and an achey back have all gotten in the way.
The best i can show you is homemade pizza! i made dough and the kiddies rolled it out and topped it!
Then they ate it all up!
General Fabric and family nonsence and drivel!
Monday, 8 April 2013
pizza
My making has stalled.
Easter, school holidays and an achey back have all gotten in the way.
The best i can show you is homemade pizza! i made dough and the kiddies rolled it out and topped it!
Then they ate it all up!
Easter, school holidays and an achey back have all gotten in the way.
The best i can show you is homemade pizza! i made dough and the kiddies rolled it out and topped it!
Then they ate it all up!
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Seattle
I've been away (i don't know if anyone noticed at all!)
I had to go to Seattle for work and took the opportunity to visit some different fabric shops.
I went to Undercover Quilts which had lots of fab fabric and some fantastic quilts
I also ended up in stitches, the ladies in there are fantastic, in fact i went twice!
I also did the space needle and the glass gardens
There were some native fabrics in the glass exhibition (kept me happy, along with all the coffee!)
I have a great time but now I'm pooped (i don't do jet lag very well at all!)
I don't know if I'll get to blog again before Easter but I'll leave you with the thought that next time i blog I'll show you pictures of me in the dress i made for the conference!
TTFN
I had to go to Seattle for work and took the opportunity to visit some different fabric shops.
I went to Undercover Quilts which had lots of fab fabric and some fantastic quilts
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| space needle |
I have a great time but now I'm pooped (i don't do jet lag very well at all!)
I don't know if I'll get to blog again before Easter but I'll leave you with the thought that next time i blog I'll show you pictures of me in the dress i made for the conference!
TTFN
Thursday, 14 March 2013
School cakes
Last night instead of working on my dress i made cake. My lad needed some for school toady - red nose day cake sale.
I made 27 of these for him
(cakes that is not plates!)Hope they all sell and make lots of money
I made 27 of these for him
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Book day and a frock
Well last week was book day, my lad was a pirate complete with dodgy beard and cardboard shoe buckles, and tiny was puss in boot!
I'm quite glad they had dressing up on different days as it ment they could share a hat!
Other than fake beards i've been making a dress for me. I'm off on a conference soon and, for the last few, i've done my presentation wearing a homemade frock so thought i should carry on the tradition!
I've gone for this fabric (a liberty print i believe)
and so far it looks like this! (not sure why tiny or fat tulip needed to be in the pictures!)
Over the weekend i recieved a prize i won in a giveaway by the lovely christine
Tiny finally wore her cat frock
and it snowed (in march!)
TTFN!
I'm quite glad they had dressing up on different days as it ment they could share a hat!
Other than fake beards i've been making a dress for me. I'm off on a conference soon and, for the last few, i've done my presentation wearing a homemade frock so thought i should carry on the tradition!
I've gone for this fabric (a liberty print i believe)
Over the weekend i recieved a prize i won in a giveaway by the lovely christine
Monday, 4 March 2013
Another cat dress
This time its a Halloween fabric, but as far as she is concerned it is purple and has cats on it!
I went for a bit of a bodge job, i love the top of peasant dresses but Tiny is really skinny so the just look like a sac (I've done one before for her and ended up putting elastic round the middle tinys dress) so i added a straighter skirt.
It required me to pop a zip in the back or she'd never get it on, but i think its come out OK.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Book review - Scrap Quilt Projects
A few weeks ago the lovely people at vive books gave some of us crafty bloggers the chance to review one of their books. Vive books is the downloady bit of rainbow books who produce quality books from top authers, in digital format.
I chose this one
I've been wanting to try some quilting for ages but a whole quilt always seems daunting. I thought this would help introduce me to it alittle.
The purchase process was very easy and had wonderful communication with Vivienne Wells who runs the site.
the book itself has a handy 'how to use this book' guide at the front for those of use who have never really used e-books before.
It contains a varity of projects, suitable for people who normally quilt but want something quick and easy to use up scraps/use as presents and for beginners like me.
The projects included are a needlecase, bags, mini quilts, cushions, tablemats, a door stop and a pencil case.
For each there is a full but easy to follow set of instructions and if templates are needed they are provided. For any of the projects that have slightly more complex techinques in (flying ducks, Amish stars etc) there is a guide at the back of the book which gives more in depth detail on how to achieve this. Its easy to print out if thats your prefered way to work, it tells you what pages to print for each project so you don't have to flip though working it out for yourself.
The only thing i'm missing as a beginner is a section on how to quilt, although the instructions are great i felt i could have done with a section in the techniques pages about 'how to quilt', basic hints and tips.
I did try a project from the book and i really enjoyed it. I didn't make it quite to instructions as i had to work with what i had in my smaller bits of fabric pile. I went for the pencil case which is suposed to look like this
I did in the red, with blue and yellow triangles and quilted in green. I also went for a spot of upcycling, using cut up bits of an old fleece jacket as the wadding (totally staying in the using up my stash theme). The instuctions were easy to follow, my main problem was that my printer is currently playing up and missed half the instructions out!
This is my end result. Quite proud of it really. My lad has claimed it for school and Tiny now wants one but in pink!
I would happily recommend this book, it has some lovely scrap stash busting ideas but think its not a book for total sewing beginners.
I chose this one
I've been wanting to try some quilting for ages but a whole quilt always seems daunting. I thought this would help introduce me to it alittle.
The purchase process was very easy and had wonderful communication with Vivienne Wells who runs the site.
the book itself has a handy 'how to use this book' guide at the front for those of use who have never really used e-books before.
It contains a varity of projects, suitable for people who normally quilt but want something quick and easy to use up scraps/use as presents and for beginners like me.
The projects included are a needlecase, bags, mini quilts, cushions, tablemats, a door stop and a pencil case.
For each there is a full but easy to follow set of instructions and if templates are needed they are provided. For any of the projects that have slightly more complex techinques in (flying ducks, Amish stars etc) there is a guide at the back of the book which gives more in depth detail on how to achieve this. Its easy to print out if thats your prefered way to work, it tells you what pages to print for each project so you don't have to flip though working it out for yourself.
The only thing i'm missing as a beginner is a section on how to quilt, although the instructions are great i felt i could have done with a section in the techniques pages about 'how to quilt', basic hints and tips.
I did try a project from the book and i really enjoyed it. I didn't make it quite to instructions as i had to work with what i had in my smaller bits of fabric pile. I went for the pencil case which is suposed to look like this
I did in the red, with blue and yellow triangles and quilted in green. I also went for a spot of upcycling, using cut up bits of an old fleece jacket as the wadding (totally staying in the using up my stash theme). The instuctions were easy to follow, my main problem was that my printer is currently playing up and missed half the instructions out!
I would happily recommend this book, it has some lovely scrap stash busting ideas but think its not a book for total sewing beginners.
Monday, 25 February 2013
Eggs
Tomorrow i shall 'book review' but for today - here are some more eggs from mine and Tiny's big egg hunt.
If your in liverpool, manchester, glasgow or london (or visiting those places) then you too can join in with the big egg hunt and find all 101 of them!
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