22.11.11

Fawn

I have made a little sewn fawn. Again for my Christmas craft stall (as everything is at the moment, but only 2 weeks to go now!)
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21.11.11

Stocking

Busy busy busy...

I've been making loads of stockings for my craft fair in December. A great excuse 2 make lots of bits and pieces that I've wanted to make for a while.
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Christmas stocking


stocking

20.11.11

Gingerbread men

Still busy making things for the Christmas craft fair I'm going to.

I made quite a few of these little gingerbread men decorations.
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I also made this mini chain with gingham hearts 2.
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1.11.11

Jewellery


I have been making lots of new jewellery, I have been experimenting with pewter.

This is all my shapes cut out.

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This is them with the rings attached.

jewellery
An owl pendant that I have recently finished.

hand cut jewellery
My horse and carriage necklace.

handmade jewellery
A sewing machine and camera.

Boat, guitar and key
Knitting, girl on a swing and a guy playing a guitar.

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29.10.11

Christmas Bunting

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I got hold of some pretty Christmas fabric and made some Christmas bunting. I want this everywhere in the house at Christmas!

I made some holly leaves to go on either end of the bunting.

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Bunting, sewing, party, christmas, fabric, xmas

Designing Christmas cards

Bears

I have been making lots of little bears.
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28.10.11

Bunting

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I started out on making my bunting. This is my first finished vintage bunting.

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27.10.11

Busy Making

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I have finally got my computer back and am therefore able to blog again. I missed my laptop!

So while I have been away from the computer a bit, I have been getting ready for the Leigh craft fair I am doing in December.


Leigh on sea handmade and vintage fair
I have made lots of little bears, Christmas decorations, bunting, jewellery and I am still going. I will keep you updated with my progress and what happens along the way.

The bears above are a few of my creations that I will be selling.

18.9.11

Cake

This is the cake that I made for my Nan's Birthday

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I used icing tools and various shades of green icing to cover the cake in green roses.

9.8.11

Block

I mentioned before my trip to the library to get some sewing/ dress making/ pattern making books. So I thought I would read up and try and work on improving some of the sewing I do and how I do it and hopefully learn a few things.

I decided I was gunna make a pattern block. I have been basing my patterns so far on a basic dress pattern and adjusting it, but haven't made a block that is just right. So I thought I would do it properly and follow the instructions.

I used a standard pattern sized up to make one set of blocks, I then followed this method of measuring the body and drawing it all out. I then adjusted this one on both my model and by trying it on myself.


This is my block so far on my model. It still needs a fair bit of work, cutting etc and then drawing out onto paper.

making a block
I have been doing a lot of pinning and adjusting to try and get it just right.

I think I might test this out, once it's finished, by making a black dress for work, so watch this space.

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8.8.11

Recipe book stand

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I got a pressie the other day from my Nan- a book rest for my recipe books, so used it for the first time today.

7.8.11

New shoes

flowery brogues

I bought some new shoes: flowery brogues! They were too cute, I couldn't resist!

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6.8.11

I made Jam

We have a plum tree in our garden, it's only a little one, but the amount of plums that we get off of it is amazing!

plums
So we stewed somefor crumbles and froze them and I also made jam. It came out well, I even had it on toast this morning.

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5.8.11

I've been to the library

I took a trip to the library as I have a bit of time over the next few weeks and wanted to get looking at some pattern books for dressmaking. I wanted to improve my techniques a bit and so I rummaged through the library for pattern making books.

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Some of these books are better than others, some are a bit old.

But I have been looking at how to make blocks, there seems to be a couple of ways to do this, either following the mathematical approach or doing it on the model. Now I am trying a few different ones, a couple of the 'make it on paper' types and also using on the model ideas.

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I'll keep you posted on how it all goes. So far I have been cutting out lots of versions of paper patterns on newspaper and have made up one in fabric and am altering it on the model I haveto get it just right.



4.8.11

I made cake...

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I saw a picture of a cake I really wanted to make a while back, I just needed an occasion to make it. So my Nan's Birthday.

This is a test run, just to check it wouldn't be a total disaster at the last minute when I didn't have a back up plan (often a problem I have!!) But it wasn't and am quite happy.

I think I'm gunna make it in shades of green, my Nan's fav colour. There'll be pics of that 2, so fingers crossed it's successful.


I also got some icing tools when I was out shopping (it is what I used to do the icing on the cake), but I also wanted to try and make some chocolate shapes (another idea that I saw recently). I just did some test runs of hearts and stars, but worked ok. Just gotta make sure I don't get too impatient and touch them before they r properly dry!

I just tried them in my cake, think they look cute, might add these to the next cup cakes I make, now there's an idea!!

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swirl chocolate cake

3.8.11

A day of making

home made lemonade
If you have been here before or are a regular reader of my blog, u'll know by now that I love to make thing. It may be clothes, jewellery, sewing or it may be food, but I love to make.

So I spent a free day making lots of things in the kitchen. I made Ice cream (mint choc chip and chocolate), lemonade and macaroons. Yummy.


ice cream

mint choc chip ice cream