All posts tagged with "Sewing"
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...
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...