Summer time activities

Right now that Queeny has celebrated her jubilee and team GB have done us proud I am back and ready to roll. So whats been going on my end. Well the discovery of pinterest has come into my life and since the purchase of my marvelous Ipad I am never not pinning!! I have gained so much inspiration from this site, it's great for planning projects and sourcing images.

So apart from pinning I have been sewing some lovely things. I took a dress making and millinery workshop with my mum creating 50's style tea dresses and hats to match. It was excellent, I have found my calling which is infact circle skirts... dead easy really simple to make and look amazing. I have a new found love for materials and my mums singer!!! Here's some pics...

The pattern was tailor made by making a cling film wrap from your body and making a paper pattern from the panels. The last picture here is of the finished dresses, I'm in front wearing my dress and hat. My mum is the third one in. We found our fabric from an Ebay shop called Fancy Moon, they sell amazing fabrics with really quirky patterns, great for the vintage/new look.

Craft Fair Fancies

Say hello to my little friends....Unfortunately this craft wasn't all that successful and i only managed to sell one of these little beauts, I was considering making some more of these but possibly putting them on bunting as a sweet little twit twoo sign maybe...

Here are some woodland coasters I made from felt, I really love to create things in felt I find it so quick and easy but so effective at the same time, a couple of pieces and some stitches can make something really cute in a few minutes :)

Graduation

So i finally managed to finish my degree and graduate, Mum and Dad were very proud :) my Dad even won a prize for this photograph at our hometown village show... it's a small village called Shardlow... Bless him he was Chuffed :)

New images for my portfolio

FINISHED QUILT VISUAL

finished quilt design, hand painted. Visual of quilt in set.

Progress

Progress is going well, hopefully by the end of the day i shall have a smashing coverlet design... or a few :)

My Quilt Project

My sample stitch pieces for my quilt ideas, going to scan them into the computer and play around with compositions, so hopefully they will look nice :)