New skirt

Just made a new skirt and quite happy with how it turned out.

I bought a new belt to go with it as well.

New wintery hat

As you can probably guess by now I like a bit of knitting and here is a new creation- a nice wooly bobble hat with cables.

Corset Dress

I wanted to give making a corset a go and here are the results, not a finished dress yet, but something I want to play with more and maybe add some machine embroidery to. I have just got an embroidery hoop and started trying out machine embroidery, so maybe with a bit more practise!

A handmade Christmas in images

Some sewing...

A bit of knitting...

Some wrapping of course (in my handmade paper)

And some cooking...

New flipflop pendant

A pendant I just made for a customer

Snood

Ok, so I always thought snoods were very old fashioned, but it seems they have come back around! So I wanted a different scarf, so I thought y not make a snood style one, so here it is

Evening bag

I have had the same little evening bag for ages now, its just a little plain black one, goes with everything, but I decided to make a nice new one.

So here it is

I made it all, lined it and made a pretty flower, I think its cute and I'm quite happy. I might just add a zip?!

Knitted Bag

I decided to make another little bag, but a knitted one this time. Thought it might look quite cute.

So I started knitting, I did it in a cable pattern. I sewed it all together and lined it and added a handle. I also made a little crochet flower and added a pearl to the centre.

New cable socks

I saw this pattern and just wanted to make them, they are some cable slipper socks and I am happily wearing them now.

Bag

I decided I wanted to make a new bag, so I sorted thru all my fabrics and then decided what colours and fabrics to use.

So heres the little bag I made. I then sewed on a little owl.

Handmade Holiday

If you hadn't noticed already, I love to make stuff, all sorts of stuff and keeping with this theme I am making lots of holiday makes and gettin ready for the Christmas season. The build up is always the most fun!

So far I have already made a reindeer, some little robins, a Christmas bag, some socks and don't worry because I have lots more plans. I will be making lots of sweets and biscuits nearer the time too and wrapping them up beautifully.

As well as making lots of Christmassy things, I love to buy handmade too, I love to browse online and find something unique and perfect for all the people I love.

So busy busy, but lots of fun too.

Finished Christmas socks

Finished socks, yay. Very happy

Remember remember the 5th November

I love fireworks, reminds me of being a kid! Standing out in the cold, watching all the pretty fireworks, its great!

Pics pics pics

Some more pics that i've taken

My recent trip to Bournemouth, who said England can't b beautiful!

I love this pic...

Just posted this because I love this pic...

How cute is he?!

More pics

More experimenting and more pics!

Through the viewfinder pics

I have always loved to take photographs and I have had a fascination with photographs that are either poloroids or more recently- through the viewfinder pictures. I think they can look amazing! So obviously I have been experimenting.

I take all my pics on a digital camera and have done for years now, so I have been playing with effects in photoshop to get the look I wanted. It wasn't easy, but I got there. :)

Knitted Christmas socks

I have made socks before (not as complicated as it sounds) but this is my first attempt at patterned socks.

The first sock I made looked ok, but I had a bit of a problem in that it wasn't stretchy (due to the 'floats' as apparently their called, which stopped it stretching) so this became a stocking instead, a nice stocking though!

So second attempt I looked up about floats and pattern knitting to get some tips on what to do about the problem. Now one sock down and almost through the next, and they are now stretchy yipeee!

Heres where I started:

You can just see the pattern emerging on this sock

A sock almost done

And my first Christmas sock completed, quite happy with it :)

Homemade

I have been busy making lots of chutneys this week. I started off with a tomatoe chutney, my fav I think.

I then made a spicy apple chutney

Then- my first attemp at lemon curd, came out well, reminds me of lemon meringue pie! And look how yellow it is, no colouring or anything.

Chocolate cake

I do like a good chocolate cake and I made this one with white chocolate icing. Was very yummy (though not as neat as it could have been!)

Cupcake

I have just been experimenting with making cup cake cases. I saw a beautiful butterfly one in a magazine and thought it was amazing, though unfortunatly very expensive, so I thought- y not make my own?!

So here it is, thought it would be cute for birthdays. I have also been preactising my icing skills to make these pretty little choc cupcakes.

Christmas Robins

My little robins at Christmas

and them under the mistletoe

Christmas gift wrapping

Ok, so this is an alternative to the usual way of wrapping presents and does take a little more time, but I decided to make some pretty Christmas bags and use them to put presents in rather than the usual paper bags or wrapping.

I made the bag from white fabric and a stripe fabric that I had stashed away and I appliqued on the penguin design from some other fabrics.

Handmade Reindeer

I have just made this little reindeer. Lots of sewing was involved and was a bit fiddly, but got there in the end.

Christmas Robin

Another little robin for my Christmas collection.

Totally handmade in the UK.

Each little robin costs £10