Birthday bags for little girls
My girls each have a friend about to celebrate a birthday so I had a think and made a couple of these cute little bags. This one was made using a fat quarter of When I grow up fabric designed … Read More »
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My girls each have a friend about to celebrate a birthday so I had a think and made a couple of these cute little bags. This one was made using a fat quarter of When I grow up fabric designed … Read More »
A good friend had a birthday coming up and after doing some sneaky research (my husband sending facebook messages to her sister in America) I decided on the bag to make and the fabric. It was a success. It was … Read More »
The other day I spotted some gorgeous fabric flowers. While I really enjoy making flower brooches, choosing the fabrics and the fiddly sewing, they take an age to make so I’ve been fiddling around and come up with a flower … Read More »
Here are some more fantastic fabrics that have come in the post: Surfin’ Monkeys for Benartex which I might make into an Amy Butler Ditty Bag for my little boy. Christmas Snow Flower by Dena Designs for Freespirit, just starting … Read More »
What is it that means we can never have too many bags? My girls love them in all sizes and fabrics, I like to think that their favourites are these that I made: They are made following an Amy Butler … Read More »
I said I’d show when they arrived… This Echino fabric is fantastic, I’m thinking of making a laptop case for Tobit when I have a few spare minutes… The other fabric is a bundle of fat quarters – To the … Read More »
As promised here is a list in no particular order of the stores that I frequently browse (maybe I should spend less time browsing and more time sewing!) Dungarees and Daisies Saints and Pinners Gone to Earth Fabric Rehab Creative … Read More »
I’ve had my first commission as a result of the school fete – t-shirts for twin boys. I had great fun once I’d found the energy after another hot day with exhausted children! The twins mum doesn’t dress them in … Read More »
Well, here I am back from holiday and the school fete. We managed to pack up the car and leave by 8:30 (helped by children waking at 6:00) straight to school by 10:30! My wonderful friend and neighbour Jenny was … Read More »
It’s the week of our family holiday, we’re staying in a beach chalet in Gwithian a few miles up the coast from St Ives in Cornwall, UK. The school fete is on Saturday morning so i brought my sewing machine … Read More »