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Make it Monday: Appliqued shoe bag.

September 8, 2014

This week I made another plimsoll shoe bag, this time for my nephew Jonah. I used some lovely star print Riley Blake fabric I received from Plush Addict for a recent review post. I made the bag using the tutorial here as a guide. The addition I made was to applique the letter J onto the … More Make it Monday: Appliqued shoe bag.

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Make it Monday: Grecian style top

August 18, 2014

It was my birthday last week and I was so excited to use my new dressform – who I have named Betty 🙂 To celebrate having Betty I wanted to make myself a top using some grey jersey fabric I had in my stash. I recalled seeing on the Great British Sewing Bee a short … More Make it Monday: Grecian style top

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Make it Monday: dress alteration

August 4, 2014

This week I was very excited as I got a birthday present 2 weeks early. My husband and girls bought me an Adjustoform Lady Valet dress makers dummy. I’ve wanted one for ages, but they are quite expensive, so I was really excited when Hubby suggested one for my birthday. It has 12 dials to … More Make it Monday: dress alteration

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Make it Monday: kiddies shoe bag & product review

July 28, 2014

This weeks make is a fabric kiddies shoe bag, ideal for those school plimsolls for PE. I was sent a special delivery from those kind people from Plush Addict for me to do a product review on. It contained the following: a 28mm Olfa rotary cutter a 6 fat quarter bundle of Riley Blake Rocket … More Make it Monday: kiddies shoe bag & product review

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Make it Monday: stuffed cuddly dog

July 21, 2014

This week features a make that Miss P completed: a stuffed toy dog that she got as a kit for her recent 6th birthday from a friend. The kit features a fabric dog that needs stuffed and sewn closed and a bag with fabric stickers to decorate it. Miss P inserted the stuffing into the … More Make it Monday: stuffed cuddly dog

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I finished the stash buster blanket. I ended up using some white to make the colour stretch further (I wouldn't have enough to do the decreases the same way as the increases) and believe it or not I still have some of the coloured yarn left over.
Working on another corner to corner blanket using leftover yarns from previous projects.
I like to have a little holiday project to work on (we're just staying home). I decided it was time to do a new cross stitch, I only started this on Saturday and I'm whizzing through it (over a 1/4 of the way through it). Using a Lowery Workstand is a game changer and has definitely speeded up my sewing.
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Quick amigurumi. Yesterday I crocheted up this mini Emma the Bunny from a 2nd hand TOFT kit.
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