Appliquéd Backpack

Yesterday Lisanne from Sewciety came over to my house to play. We set our sewing machines up on either side of my dining table and proceeded to eat, chat and craft.  She managed to make a couple of lunch bags, which I’m sure she’ll put on her blog in the next couple of days, and I managed to make my daughter a new bag for school.

Daisy is mad on Moshi monsters and had found a picture of her favourite one, and as she has so much faith in me as a crafter (hmm not sure her faith is justified!), asked me if I could make her a bag with it on.  Unfortunately I didn’t quite have the right colour felt to make it (purple) but she was happy with the red and pink instead.  I’ve lined it with a thick red corduroy, however I think if I make another one in the future I’ll add some sort of interfacing to the bag as it’s very soft at the moment.

Here is a photo of the reverse of the bag, with the straps and a hook to hang it up on her peg. 

She was so pleased with it I was glad I’d made the effort for her.  However I am beginning to worry that all this making of bags will cause her to have a handbag problem in later life!! 

Sally

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Bookcase Revamp – For Boys

I thought I’d share a project with you that I am in the middle of.  My son had this bookcase in his room and it’s a bit boring for an almost-teenage boy.

So, I ordered a cheap bundle of superhero comics from ebay and set about covering the bookcase.  My lovely husband spent ages helping me by cutting out the pictures while I glued them down.  This is as far as we got by the time the usual Sunday night routine interrupted us.

I just used PVA glue to stick them down, and then coated them again in PVA to hold them in place. 

I’m hoping to finish gluing the pictures down tomorrow and then I will coat it in another coat or two of watered down PVA glue, and then once dry we can fill it with his books again.

This side is pretty complete so you can get an idea of how it will look.

Here is a view of inside the top shelf.

Will post some more photos when I’ve finished it.

Sally

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A Lucky Winner

And the winner is:

30. jennifer (who wrote on my Take 2 post)

and who likes the lime seeds fabric on Sewciety.

Congratulations Jennifer – I will email you for your details.

PLUS seeing as so many people sent lovely and kind comments, I’ve decided to add a second prize of a lunch bag e-pattern – and the winner of that is:

27. Yvonne (on the original post) who likes the Heather Bailey fabrics

I will email you too and get your details.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered, and who’ve become new followers – I’ve read all of your comments and enjoyed finding out which fabrics you all loved. 

Thank you also to those who added my giveaway to their own blogs – I never thought I’d get so many entries and I owe it all to you.  You are all so lovely & I look forward to getting to know you all.

Before this turns into an emotional Oscar-type acceptance speech I will go, leaving you with some images of the lunch bags I made over the last couple of days.  

Happy Crafting

Sally

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Giveaway - Last chance to enter

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be closing my giveaway tonight at 9pm (UK time).
So if you want to enter, you don't have long left!  Click here to enter.

Thanks to everyone who has already entered and to those who also added this giveaway to their blog, you are all completely wonderful.

Good Luck

Sally
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Big Hello & Car Seat Cover

Just wanted to say Hi to all my new followers, its lovely to have you with me and I am looking forward to spending the next few days browsing around all of your lovely blogs.

Today I thought I’d share with you my weekend project.  My friend had a booster seat for her car but sadly, as happens with these things, the cover had fallen apart and so the seat was in dire need of a makeover.  Her daughter chose her favourite fabric from my stash and after making a rough pattern out of newspaper, I set about making the cover.

I’d been given a small cushion pad which luckily fitted perfectly onto the seat, and had some white poly-cotton for a backing, so I sewed them together with a bit of lime-green piping around the edge and the car seat came together quite quickly. 

As you may be able to see from the above photo I’ve quilted around some of the circles just to hold the cushion in place.  The whole thing is held on the chair by some elastic looped underneath.  My friend’s daughter absolutely loved the cover and was looking forward to trying it out. 

Right am off now to cut out some fabric to make more lunch bags – photos tomorrow.

Sally

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Hooray – A Giveaway – Take 2

 

Sadly it looks as though Blogger has eaten my last post, but luckily I had a copy on my computer.  Obviously those lovely people who had already commented on it have also had their comments eaten, so to make it fair I will do a draw in the old fashioned way with pieces of paper with those who have already commented along with any new people who comment.

Apologies if blogger manages to find my post & it appears twice.  Just comment on either & I’ll add your name to the hat.

 

Without further ado – here is my post from yesterday:

To celebrate the release of my ‘Yum Yum Lunch Bag’ pattern I’ve decided to have a giveaway.  You could win… drum roll please… a pdf file of my lunch bag pattern PLUS a copy of the ‘Red Riding Hood Basket’ pattern which will be in my shop next week PLUS, if that wasn’t enough, Lisanne at Sewciety has donated a bundle of 4 gorgeous Fat Quarters for you to win.  This is enough fabric to make both patterns.

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to become a follower or already be a follower of my blog, and leave me a comment. 

For an extra chance of winning, blog about my giveaway and then leave me another comment.

And if you want one more chance to win, hop over to Sewciety shop & tell me which is your favourite fabric.

I will draw the winner in a weeks time (19th May)  Good Luck to you all.

Sally

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Hooray – A Giveaway

To celebrate the release of my ‘Yum Yum Lunch Bag’ pattern I’ve decided to have a giveaway.  You could win… drum roll please… a pdf file of my lunch bag pattern PLUS a copy of the ‘Red Riding Hood Basket’ pattern which will be in my shop next week PLUS, if that wasn’t enough, Lisanne at Sewciety has donated a bundle of 4 gorgeous Fat Quarters for you to win.  This is enough fabric to make both patterns.

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to become a follower or already be a follower of my blog, and leave me a comment. 

For an extra chance of winning, blog about my giveaway and then leave me another comment.

And if you want one more chance to win, hop over to Sewciety shop & tell me which is your favourite fabric.

I will draw the winner in a weeks time (19th May)  Good Luck to you all.

Sally

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Patterns In My Shop

Some more good news:  I’ve finally finished writing my pattern for a washable lunch bag and have put it into my shop.  Click here to visit it.

At the moment it’s only available as an pdf e-pattern, but once I’ve managed to order some supplies it’ll also be available as a paper pattern.

 

I love these lunch bags, as they’re washable, tumble-dry-able and best of all just chuck them in the wash at the end of the week and they never get smelly!  My children have been using theirs since September and they’re still as good as new.

I’m also working on a pattern for a circular bag and that will hopefully be available as an e-pattern in the next couple of weeks.

I’ll leave you with a few more images of the lunch bags I’ve made.

Sally

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An Exciting Week

Been a great week for me, firstly I had 2 of my patterns published in the latest issue of Sew Hip magazine.  A lion purse and a flower garland.  Then I found out another of my patterns was in the first issue of this new magazine:

They’d kindly asked my permission to reprint a picnic blanket pattern I wrote for Sew Hip about a year ago, but I didn’t realise it would be in the first issue.

Three patterns in a month – wonder how long I’ll have to wait to get any more patterns published.

 

Sally

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Ps Before I go, do hop over to Lisanne at Sewciety’s website for a chance to win in her latest giveaway.