Babies | mary emmens

A Christmas present in April and some bunting

9 Apr

This week I have made one Christmas present! It is for my youngest niece for last Christmas, I’d offered to make something for her back in early December and her mummy asked me to make a cutlery roll but she...
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Quilts – part 1

25 Mar

One of my first big sewing projects was a patchwork quilt approximately 18yrs ago, I can’t remember what got me interested or why I decided to give it a go but I did. The girls and I were chatting about...
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A first birthday

12 Mar

The gorgeous boy who lives next door to us was one today. I decided a while ago on what to make him for his birthday and then his mum saw the book I made for baby Ella and said something...
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What’s in your loft?

1 Mar

I’ve got an event coming up in a couple of weeks and am starting to get my head in gear for what I might need to make for it. So, I went up into our loft to have a root...
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New baby, new soft book!

17 Feb

I have been keen to make more soft baby books and some lovely friends of ours recently celebrated the arrival of a beautiful baby girl, so I took this opportunity to get started on another book. Except…I discovered I didn’t...
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Freestyle sewing

8 Feb

My sewing machine is back from it’s service but I’d not even got it out to see how it’s running because I was having such a great time with the Singer! I was having a bit of an issue because...
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Those new twin baby presents…

16 Nov

So here we have two cushions: and we forgot to take any pictures of the back! They are one fabric, patterned not plain from the same range – simply gorgeous!...
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This week I have made…

17 Oct

I feel like I’ve had a productive week, I’ve finished 5 travel car wallets, one is already on it’s way to Germany as a present for my nephew; I been using the lovely fabrics from Riley Blake that I bought...
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Look at this…

10 Oct

I am so excited my ‘Big Butt Baby Pants’ feature here and Rae has written some tips to solve the issue I had with the puckering. Time to make another pair, I knew I had some black corduroy in the...
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and to go with those big butt baby pants…

8 Oct

We had a first birthday in our house this week and I was very much of the opinion that we have plenty of toys and didn’t need to add to the collection but felt we ought to give him something! ...
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