My friend Lorna has offered to sell my kids clothes on her stall for me (that's so cool) at Sydney's Rozelle and Marrickville markets! Last night she came over for another sewing date and helped me work with some of my vintage findings to make these sweet little baby clothes.
This is an all in one, so perfect for a hot Sydney summer. What do you think of them? And how much would you pay for one?
I bought a few doilys! Well maybe a little more than a few - yikes!
Every year I have big plans for Christmas, but as it gets closer the list gets shorter because I didn't start early enough and I run out of time. Sound familiar? So this year, together, we are going to commit to working as hard as we can to finish as many things on our Christmas list during the month of November.
We're off after dinner to visit another family at the end of our road for coffee this evening, so I wanted make something to take along. I am going to stay and craft, and hubby will bring the kids home - how cool is that!
I spent the day at my friend Jen's place crafting and chatting - it was so lovely! We did manage a little bit of crafting, which was a first, usually we are too busy chatting. We came up with a plan to be a little more productive next time, and also get stuck into making things for Christmas. So watch this space. I should have taken a picture of us there, but I forgot, as usual. But here is a pic of my bookmark featuring each of my kids artwork, that we sent to their holidaying Opa in Europe for Fathers Day.
This fabric is so lovely to work with - it all works so well together. Last night when I cheekily asked my hubby if it was a good use of his money, he says "yes, but I think you should slow down and enjoy the process more". So funny!
I found a perfect doily tablecloth in the op shop last week for $3. So I whipped up this top with the centre of the tablecloth and I made a skirt with the rest. I'll take a photo and pop it up (if I remember).
Today I started working on a bookmark for my husbands dad for fathers day. I got each of my kids to draw a picture and I will embroider them onto the linen. This idea is from Amanda Blake Soule's Handmade Home book.
I have been becoming more and more interested in knitting lately. Knitting has never interested me in the past, but my friend Jen tells me she thinks it's easier than crochet. And I keep seeing beautiful knitted things around blogland like Kat's blanket and I keep leaving comments like "I wish I could knit".
I thought that the blanket you make with the magazine looked pretty cool and decided to give it a go. When I got home I started to think...how many issues are there to complete the blanket? How many do you reckon? 30? 40? 50?
90 issues! I kid you not! And a grand total cost of $707.50AUD.
Today I went to Retro Mummy's Quilts for Queensland working bee. I had a fantastic time and got to meet lots of new people. Here's Corrie with the stack of quilts we finished, there were still lots more to go and most of us took a couple home to finish off. Corrie gave everyone a Moda charm pack as a little thank you, which was totally unexpected, but very much appreciated - thanks Corrie!
Things have been pretty hectic here. I survived my sons third birthday party, which I'll post about another day, even though I forgot to take photos of the things I made! And then that same night being invited to a Miglio jewellery party where I got to meet the lovely (and very good baker) fellow blogger Sophie of Little Gumnut. Then my baby boy, well baby to me, had an asthma attack and ended up having his first sleep over at a hospital.
Here he is finally sleeping, the repidred and ventolin made him very hyper! Which is not cool when you are trying to keep them jumping about and losing their breath. Bless!
It's so bitter sweet that my baby boy is now three! Children grow up so fast don't they? Although it is getting exciting to know I am moving on to another more independent stage with my kids, I also feel very sad that there will be no more babies.
We went to Bundeena for lunch and a play at the beach - he had such a blast. Then he got to choose what we had for dinner - and he chose Sushi Train - every ones favourite.
So I am usually really lazy when it comes to the backing of my quilts, but I couldn't find a good matching fabric for the back so I had to go with white. I didn't want just a plain white back so I sewed up another strip the same as the front and will sew it so that it sits to the right of the quilt. But the problem is, how do I quilt it so that it looks OK from the back? I wasn't sure how to do this so, with pins I went through every corner and matched them up with the corner on the back. Does anyone know if there is a better way?
I feel like my blog needs a bit of a face lift and I am also trying to sort out a few things like RSS Feed. Do You use RSS feed? I don't, or at least haven't yet. So tell me, if I read something on RSS feed then I "like it", does the author of the post get to see that?
