Sofia's Olympic 1st

So, it was baby's 1st birthday and I thought I should try and make something for baby.
The theme was "The Olympics" and as a coincidence it was on the closind day of the Olympics in London.

This was the invitation made using cupcake cases:

 

 

 

 

 

The food (or what was left of it). I used these free printables to make the table decorations and some of the games

And of course I made her clothes. She's dressed as Mandeville the Olympic Mascot. These were the first clothes I have ever made for her.
I am so proud :)

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Sew does Katie...

Katie is my friend and a member of my sewing group "It's Sew Easy".

For her birthday I got her this patchwork and embroidery book from a lovely shop in Andover: Quilter's Dream (This is where I did my patchwork and quilting workshops).

And this is what she did

It was a present for her mum. Her mum loved it...and so did we.

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Candies...

..to my eyes...

From this...to this:

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Like a kid in candy shop...

isn't that what they say?


At least that's what I felt when I was shown this:

and guess what...it's mine now!!! The "shop" aka as sewing machine and the "candies" aka fabric!!!

Thanks Kim

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Cath Kidston business

..card holder..
(made some time ago)

As a leaving present for the lovely girl who loves Cath Kidston and had already received this underwear bag.

More card holders here: brown and orange, personalised, and mine!

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..and the second...

was even nicer.
Look at this...

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Wedding favours!

Did you guess?
Here's a selection:




The favours were also used as place cards as each one had the name of the guest on a card attached to the heart. The cards were made using the template of the wedding invitation (hence the two hearts with the names of the bride and groom, not that you can read them). A hear punch was used to create a hole for the heart's string. The string was aslo the same as found in the wedding invitation.
Each heart had the guest's initial embroidered in cream.
The parents of the bride and groom had their hearts embroidered in silver to make it a bit more special. They also had a ribbon rose and a string of pearls on the top.

All the hearts (about 90 of them) were placed in 2 boxes, one for the bride's guests and one for the groom's guests.

The bride and groom's hearts had a silver ribbon and an arrangement of ribbon roses and pearls. They were also bigger than the others.

A preview of the tables after all the place cards (hearts) were set in place. The tables were later decorates with red and white roses and pearls.

Here's a preview of me in on the wedding day. And this is the dress I made as well as the clutch...Remember this fabric?

I hope to show some more pictures later. I just love this dress.

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Cath Kidston

...lingerie bag for a very lucky (and lovely) girl...





more to come

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Mr & Mrs

Wedding present for Sarah B...

I think she liked it ;)

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wedding present

This was made as a wedding present last year. I bought some towels and embroidered the bride and groom's initials inside a heart. Then I made a simple white cotton drawstring bag with the same embroidered design.

I broke the camera taking these shots (fell of my hand) so I don't have pics of the towels, sorry.

I suppose they could use the bag as a laundry or lingerie bag afterwards...




I have got to make some more wedding presents and favours soon... looking for ideas...

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cathedral window

..another patchwork technique...
.. a pincusion ... a sweet smelling pendant...and a block for a future project (don't know what yet, any ideas?)

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SEEDS of love...

I made these little bags for a plant swap...



It was so difficult to let go of these...combined with the desire to share these cuties.

The seeds were from packs that I go withe some gardening magazines. There were four little packs in an envelope. I made a bag for each of the packs and embroydered 'Seeds', so then people can use them with any seeds they have. I made a tag using the graphics from the seeds envelope. I glued a picture of each of the plants on the little pack; these pictures are from the front of the envelope. On the the tag I used a smaller picture from the back of the envelope which was next to the sewing instructions. so on the back of the tag I glued these sewing instructions.



These are so thin that you can fold and put inside an envelope and post to some friend...maybe your own 'special seeds'..all you have to do is take a picture of the plant whilst in bloom; otherwise it's like a recipe book without pictures. (Unless you want it to be a surprise)



Let me know how you liked these..
(and sorry for the bad photo)


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Quilting - aplique

I have started a new set of quilting and patchwork classes. I have decided to dedicate myself to different techquines. The panel below is based on 'applique'...basically applying different layers of fabrics.


I got the little cages in Portugal.
We used to have them when I was little to hold crickets...Weird, I know...
But now I find them so cute!!! Don't you agree?

Quilting-all other blocks

because I am so slow in posting sometimes...most times...I have decided to post all the other blocks I did in my Patchwork and Quilting classes so I can show you what I have been doing lately.

Lesson 7 : Bear's Paw




Lesson 8: Baskets

Lesson 9: Log Cabin

Some day I will put them all together into a quilt...someday...

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Sassy Apron Swap - Received

Look what I got from Jenn for the Sassy Apron Swap (Spring)!!!

Aren't these colours fantastic? Yes! It's lined with the same beautiful colour as the cute bow in the pocket..

Thank you so much Jenn!!!!! You did a wonderful job!

I am a lucky girl.

PS. Can't wait to try the soup recipe ... watch this space...

Quilting - boat (lesson 4)

This is one of my favoutite blocks

Sassy Apron Swap - Spring

Remember this?


Well, it's part of this:

and it has been sent across the 'pond' to my swap partner as part of the Sassy Apron Swap hosted by the lovely Lucy.
(I can't name my swap partner yet, otherwise it would ruin the surprise... but I hope she likes it)
She has received it now(or should I say alreay?!)...it went to Mary ...have a look!!!

Other aprons from this swap can be seen here.

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Quilting - Shoo Fly and... (lesson 3)

and a variation.....

Quilting - Friendship Star (lesson 2a)

Using the same techniques as the previous block...

Quilting - Jacob's Ladder (lesson 2)

This one uses squares and triangles..


they say quilting is very forgiving....I surely hope so...some squares became rectangles (hope you didn't notice )

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