All posts in "Sewing" category
Shopping Nest
Why is it that babies always want to ‘eat’ everything? That includes the handles and securing straps on shopping trolleys – yuck. As it’s never too soon to start a young lady shopping I decided to look for a shopping cart ‘nest’ like I’d seen being used whilst we...
Door Pillow
A dear friend of mine asked me to make one of these pillows to hang on the door of her new niece’s nursery. Cerys was born quite prematurely but is, happily, home with her parents and doing great. I, on the other hand, have not been doing great! Been so busy that this project has been put aside...
3-Hour Shawl
I saw this idea in Threads Magazine (Issue 119, June/July 2005) a few years ago – it was shown on the cover in much the same colours as I have used here. I was attending a family wedding and had worn the same dress a year earlier at another Tweet ...
Fabric Boxes
Another entry for that agricultural show I mentioned (Christmas Angel) was for a fabric box. I have a wonderful embroidery machine and so decided to utilise that. The fabric I chose was a gorgeous, purpley brocade onto which I embroidered several different oriental designs. It’s quite subtle...
Christmas Angel
For the Women’s Institute section of our local agricultural show, we had to make a Christmas Decoration one year. I had recently done a stumpwork class so thought I’d incorporate that into this angel. She hasn’t got the prettiest face in the world but she’s all mine so I’ve...
Our Mackintosh bedroom
If you can see the carpet at all on these photos then please ignore it! We did some major re-working in our house, added a corridor through the end of our bedroom, moved an en-suite loo into what was the old corridor, etc., etc, so the carpet was a real patchwork for a while until we finished all the...
Bag making
Maybe this should be under embroidery rather than sewing? Oh well, it’s a bit of both I guess. One of the mailing lists I subscribe to had a digitising competition a few years ago and this was my entry – didn’t win anything this time but had a lot of fun doing it. Digitising, by the...
Appliqued Sweatshirt Jacket
I get to wear this jacket for about 1 month a year! It does get a lot of comments from strangers, always nice ones, thankfully. It is made from a plain sweatshirt, christmas fabric was ironed onto the front centre using fusible interfacing and then I followed the pattern roughly up the centre cutting...