handmade by mary emmens
I believe there is an unwritten rule in sewing ‘measure twice, cut once’. When I was making Tobi’s laptop case earlier this week I obviously applied this rule, however after cutting the fabric I lay in bed thinking that I … Read More »
Last month I showed you some new fabric I’d bought from here and suggested that I might make a laptop case for Tobit. Well I’ve done it, I think this must be a record for me, I normally buy fabric … Read More »
My youngest daughter starts preschool in September, the same one that her big sister went to except that it has moved into a brand new purpose built building next to school. She is very excited as are lots of other … Read More »
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 »
Following last Saturday’s fairly quiet event I thought I wouldn’t need to make anything ready for the school fete I’d been asked to do this week, however I felt a need to be busy so whipped up 7 brooches and … Read More »