Advent bunting

Instead of quilting my wizards cloak I have spent time today working on my advent bunting. This is something that I chose to make for a few members of my family for Christmas but a friend of mine and I are thinking of holding a Christmas craft fayre, so I am making more sets, in order to sell them.

They are coming ailing really well, big enough to hold a sweety during the Christmas  countdown. All I need to do now is attach numbers 1-25 to them and sew them onto the ribbon so that they hang.

If you would like information on this handmade advent bunting, prices, sizes or even if you would like your own personalized set made, please contact me and I will send you everything you want to know.

Sewing day

Today I had arranged for my husband and son to go out for the whole day so that I could be left in peace and get some serious sewing done. The boys left at 8.30am so I had a quick blitz in the house & then pulled out all my craft bits. I have discovered that I have an awful lot more stuff then I thought I had - oops!
I had already sewn the blue patchwork side of the cloak, so today I attached both side to the wading with pins.

I then found some wonderful monster fabric and cut 5cm strips in order to make the surrounding binding. I folded over & pressed this fabric with the iron so that I was all ready to quilt the cloak and finish it today. A slight problem then happened, I somehow managed to jam my machine and didn't even start to quilt the cloak. So now tomorrow my son & I are taking it back to the store to see if they can help me unjam it.

Why is it that whenever I set aside time specifically to have some sewing time, something sabotages it. I just hope my precious machine isn't too badly damaged & can be fixed easily!!

Cloak

I have been working on this cloak for my son since the second half of my pregnancy. It is the first thing I decided to make and I've done it all by hand so far. The top side is now finished. It's made of hexagons, each of which was folded around and tacked onto a precut paper hexagon shape.

I made hundreds of these hexagon patches, which were then ironed to press and hold their shape and then finally I have sewn together by hand to create the top of the cloak.

I'm now thinking of sewing square patches together on my machine, for the underside. As you can see from the pictures, I'm planning to us a range of blue fabrics for the underside patchwork. I would love for my son to use this cloak for a whole range of dressing up and by making it reversible with a different style on each side, I think it'll be more durable.

Of course, in this picture my son seems to prefer using the cloak as a road mat for his cars to drive along rather than a fancy dress outfit to play in. Oh well. 

Christmassy

I saw this plant and it got me thinking of Christmas. I love the colours and how they're blending all over.

Cupcakes continued

Here's a piccy of the wonderful cakes we decorated last weekend. So prloud of my achievements!

Weekend fun

While hangin up the washing on the drying rack I noticed how much fun my son was having from inside it, popping his head through the washing, to play pickaboo. This got me thinking, its time to make dens! I've been looking forward to this stage imensely. So, I have raided my bags of fabric, chosen a selection of different ones and am going to get started on make him a den that can be hung of clothes driers and we can play in.

cupcakes

Today I speny the afternoon with a good frieng on a cupcake decorating course. As someone who normally yries drcorating cakes & then gives up when I get it wrong, this course was wonderful!!