Baby Girls first quilt

So I did it (last weekend actually) I finally finished the quilt i was working on for baby girl

I havent showed you too much but its been hanging around for a while. 

I got my fabric from here  Its Riley Blake Little Red Riding Hood. 

So yes this has been a big old project, I have made a fair few quilts in my time and many for my friends babies but i wanted this one to be a step up. My friend Vic helped me with the measuring and cutting and i got to sewing it together. I did this other  couple of weeks, then it was left for a bit.

I couple of weeks ago I got rob to do the good old crawling on the floor bit to lay the wadding out etc so i could start the quilting bit. 

So yes after a few very hot hours last weekend under this quite large quilt i finished!

Yay! 

I am beyond proud of it and i cant wait to put baby girl on it. 

It has a dusty pink back on it, (which you dont need to see lol )

and there you have it, a big fat tick on the list.

There are many things i want to make before baby comes but this along with the floor cushion and the blanket i'm knitting were high on my list so it feels great to have it done.

So there you go all finished yippee!!!!!!

Rediscovering!

Hello, Happy Bank holiday, I am loving not being at work, as ever, i have had a great weekend, lots of crafty fun, time with friends, sewing, knitting, bunnies, even the sunshine made an appearance!

So i thought i would pop over and share a little of what i have been up to, so last weekend on mine and my sisters craftanoon, we also did a little bit of sewing.

I bought some fabric from Quilty Pleasure i think its called.

I planned on sewing some little project bags, a simple drawstring bag.

So i bought 2 'fat quarters' in this super cute fabric by Moda, i gave sis a quick run through as to the machine and she did a bit of practising.

I confess its been a while since i have used the sewing machine, but its a bit like riding a bike, you never really forget.

And this is what we made! We got 2 bags each out of the fat quarter (a quarter of a metre of the fabric)

We were pretty chuffed with ourselves, they are small bags, so just a small project can fit in them.

cute aren't they?

So as I'm a bit lazy i left my sewing machine out and go to thinking about some other things i would like to make. Can i just point out how unhelpful it is to have a cat around when sewing.

thanks for your help millie! 

So i have had this dog fabric for ages, like a least a year and been making to make a cushion for even longer. I went through a bit of a phase before we move in of making cushions.

I use this tutorial i had to search my whole blog to find that link, it was like June 2010 where i found it lol.

And here it is, its a really easy tutorial and works up really quick.

So i had a bit of left over dog fabric so made this

Yay! Its a bigger version of the ones i made last weekend, actually i made two as i had enough fabric.

So i promptly took it round Vics house where she made me sunday lunch and i knit her future baby cute things. Sounds like a good deal to me lol

So there you go, I have really enjoyed doing a bit of sewing, i have some other things in the pipeline.

If you have any cute things you have made then feel free to link it up.

Right must get back to my jolly old bank holiday. 

Thanks for stopping by

Rachel xx

Cosmo Cricket Earlybird fabric

So i have finally finished my beloved quilt. I started it when i had my 2 weeks off in september (now a very distant memory). And now its finished, i have tons of photos so i hope you don't mind too much!

I literally love it, its so autumny and perfect timing as its getting blooming cold.

I had to get the fabric from America as they dont do it in the UK I used the Big fat quarter shop.

So what do you think? snuggly huh?

im off to snuggle under it, i have just picked up my crochet again after leaving it for months but im liking it again so we shall see.

Thanks for stopping by

Rach xx

Todays Plan of action

Every weekend i give myself a insanely long list of things i want to get done, i rarely get everything done coz they are seriously long. 2 weeks ago it had 26 things on it, ranging from blogging, to scrapping, to knitting whole garments, to sewing, i got 9 done that weekend.

Last weekend there was 12, mainly from the week before but i had been a little more realistic this time i got, i got 6 things done lol.

Today I have 7, but one includes do at least 15 scrapbook pages (yeah yeah) and the another is make a quilt.

I showed you my lovely Early Bird fabric before but here is another peak

Pretty huh?

So i want to make it into something even prettier, my previous quilts have literally just been fat quarters chopped up, but today i fancy being a bit more daring.

All these lovely quilts are available to download for free from the Amy Butler sight as well as tons of other stuff.

So they are my plans, I'm going to do my best to avoid the internet today as its a time sucker!

Oh yes i have a cute photo to show you

This is baby Katrin, shes cute, im guessing she is smaller than thought as that little baby grow is a little big lol.

Right im off to have a super productive day, scrapping, sewing and knitting all in the same day lucky me huh!

have a great saturday whatever you are up to xx

Cushions

So I thought I would stop by and show you what i have been sewing this weekend.

As I have mentioned i got a stack of fabric for the market, and loads of cheap cushions and followed this pattern well i kinda followed it.

So my last cushions i made have flopped the look shocking

so i gave it a little make over, I made this one like a pillow case but the inside flap was too short so it kept coming out so i did it the other way around.

so the flappy bit is on the outside, we actually use our cushions so they get squashed and squished so i think this is the best way for our house.

next i did this one at the front just a simple one colour cushion and its so poofy and lovely.

Next i got a bit experimental, inspired by all the lovely photos of Flickr i figured it wouldnt be too hard, so i chopped loads of strips of fabric and put them together. I got in a little ickle with the flap bit and didnt realise that the front also has the flap on, so i could of done with a few more inches.

so i put this giant button on to pin it down, cute huh, I also just did one colour on the back as it was a bit busy, but i love it.

During all my sewing i didnt really have time to make tea, so i go in the kitchen for a jaffa cake and find this

Rob peeling potatoes (in a special left handed way) yippee he was making tea.

So i got back to sewing

Next up was the giant dog bed, it took a while but i finally cut into my beautiful Amy Butler fabric, i have had this couple of metres since september and nothing was worthy but i decided just to go for it.

Front :)

back, well you cant have enough pretty polkadots huh!

Im pretty proud of my days sewing, I felt a bit bad kinda leaving rob all day on our only day off together so went to 'check' on him

his Wii seemed to be keeping him entertained. (excuse my giant knitting pile thats taking over the living room, note to self must tidy up before ma and pa visit at the weekend eeeekk)

So you impressed? I also have some knitting things to share but i dont want to overload you do I? If you know of any cute housey sewing projects then please point me in the right direction.

Right i best get back to knitting, and im going to try and make friends with crochet again tonight, if i can remember where i put it lol. thanks for stopping by, your comments are soo appreciated so keep them coming. Thanks guys xx

I made a skirt!

I'm not sure if you know but i did actually do a degree in Fashion Design lol, i made 6 full outfits for my final collection and yet im sooo proud of myself for making myself a skirt funny huh!

So i wasnt going to blog, i did blog on the bus this morning but it wouldnt post and as i had a couple of new things to show you i thought why not.

So i mentioned yesterday i was gonna make a 20 minute skirt and it didnt take too much longer, i added a hem and what with all the pressing it took a little longer but still mighty quick.

So here is how it went.

lush fabric its Amy Butler for Rowan which is exciting.

ready?

Ta da! it goes very well with my new pj top dont you think? So its like the easiest thing ever no shaping just a good old stretchy elastic waistband (yes none pregnant people can wear them too). So i literally used a metre of fabric and a bit for the hem. So this can be a really cheap project.

This is the waist band, just elastic not very pretty but does the job (you like my cropping technique there?) I cant find the link to this at the min skirt but i think its in my previous.

So as well as this i knocked this together before bed last night

A bit more of wearable bow, a bit smaller and a bit of a easier colour to wear.

So pretty pleased with my efforts for today, i sadly didnt get everything done on my list yesterday but they can wait im too sleepy lol

Right thats it for now, let me know if you make a skirt and i can have a snoop.

Thanks for stopping by x