I have had a busy weekend. My husband went for a walk up to the top of Ben Nevis (training for his charity event next year - see the link on the left hand side) so I had time to do a bit of crafting. I made my postcard with a Fairy theme for the swap on the Crafts Beautiful forum. I will post a picture of it when the swap has taken place. I also managed to get all of the cross stitch finished on my Tweety and Sylvester cross stitch and I am just working my way through the outline.
I have my first alteration to do as well! I colleague at work is the Mother of the Bride in 8 weeks time and needs her skirt altering, I have volunteered myself and it is now hanging in my bedroom ready to be altered. Sounds easy, however it needs to be altered from the waist because of the decorative hem so I have to unpick everything, take nearly a foot off (!), reposition the zip and add the elastic back along the sides! I'm really looking forward to it because I know that I can do it and it's really nice that someone else has faith in me as well. I think it helps that I keep showing her the clothes I make for the kids!
Well I better get on and do a bit more publicising of the hubby's charity event to try and raise the £1000 for Nottingham rape Crisis Centre.
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Sunday, 8 August 2010
Monday, 26 April 2010
PYJAMAS
HI!
I have been very busy this week completing a pair of pyjama's for my son, Lucas. I have to give a lot of credit to Sew Magazine as that is where I got the pattern from. I have never used a pattern before, I remember my mum using them all the time when I was a dancer but I never really understood why. Now I know! It makes things very simple to do!.
I am very proud of the pyjama's I made. I love the little shirt type top, I started to struggle with the collar until I noticed that I had cut only half a collar in the first place so no wonder it didn't fit!!!
The best thing is that my son loves his new pyjama's and my husband gave me loads of compliments, saying they look shop bought and I have a talent he didn't know about!!!
By the way, the pyjama's were made out of an unwanted quilt cover and a few scraps of material, the only thing I actually bought were the buttons. The whole project cost exactly £1 and I recycled in the process!
Now I have finished the pyjama's I am trying to finish a cross stitch that I have had sitting in my cupboard for nearly 10 years (!). It is Tweety Pie and Sylvester. There are lots of blocks of colour so it feels like it is taking forever! I'm still trying to knit as well but I'm not getting very far with it!
I have been very busy this week completing a pair of pyjama's for my son, Lucas. I have to give a lot of credit to Sew Magazine as that is where I got the pattern from. I have never used a pattern before, I remember my mum using them all the time when I was a dancer but I never really understood why. Now I know! It makes things very simple to do!.
I am very proud of the pyjama's I made. I love the little shirt type top, I started to struggle with the collar until I noticed that I had cut only half a collar in the first place so no wonder it didn't fit!!!
The best thing is that my son loves his new pyjama's and my husband gave me loads of compliments, saying they look shop bought and I have a talent he didn't know about!!!
By the way, the pyjama's were made out of an unwanted quilt cover and a few scraps of material, the only thing I actually bought were the buttons. The whole project cost exactly £1 and I recycled in the process!
Now I have finished the pyjama's I am trying to finish a cross stitch that I have had sitting in my cupboard for nearly 10 years (!). It is Tweety Pie and Sylvester. There are lots of blocks of colour so it feels like it is taking forever! I'm still trying to knit as well but I'm not getting very far with it!
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