Posts under ‘getting crafty’

I made two more pairs of undies today, one for Willow and one for me. I thought the white elastic and stitching might lighten my pair, but they really just look like granny undies! I have found another pattern that looks a bit more modern. Willow chose the purple elastic, so that’s […]

Papie is the word Dexie uses for paper at the moment, very cute, we think. I recently printed off 24 A4 pages to make up a pattern, sticky taped them together and traced it on to thin interfacing. When I was finished with the paper, I turned it over and gave it to […]

A complained that I hadn’t made anything for him. So I made this oven mitt. I traced a pattern off one that he likes, but made it bigger for his manly hands. Notice the strawberry in the background?

I’m quite pleased with how the quilting turned out. I have enough […]

Yesterday we went to a friend’s house for lunch. She is a sister sewing enthusiast and we swapped some patterns. I have some of her precious Ottobre patterns. In one of them I saw a pattern for girls knickers, which interested me, but there was also a pattern for women’s knickers. In […]

As I alluded in my previous post, much of my fabric stash is from my mum. A lot of it is on the daggy 80s spectrum, but there are quite a few nice fabrics in there too. With Willow’s help (for about 3 minutes until she got bored) I filled up a green […]

I am always nervous about giving something I’ve made as a gift. In the past they haven’t been appreciated, but I’ve made 3 sets of bags and aprons for Willow’s recent birthday parties. I’ve included something with each of them and this time I made some felt sushi. I’d never made any […]

Last night we went to a Parents and Friends BBQ at school. Dexie was tired and grumpy, so I didn’t think we’d last long, but A distracted him. It was a fantastic night - all Junior families were invited, so I had a chance to speak to parents at different stages of their child’s […]

I just spent 10 minutes deleting spam comments. I could have been sewing!
Well, I have been sewing - I finished this sweet little dress for Willow. Dexie had to get in on the action.

Front detail.

Back detail - I deviated from the pattern a bit! I rarely follow instructions to […]

Willow’s birthday cake

A scarf I’m working on.

I know it looks strange, but I’ll post the photos when I’ve finished!

It is a melange of fabric and ribbons sewn to some water soluble stabiliser. The idea is to sew back and forth, up and down, then put the scarf in water and the backing will […]