Holiday

Well sort of. It was more a stay at home and do fun stuff with children.

 We went to a craft fair in Stonor Park. This little vase came home with me. Very pretty. The potter who made it had lovely vases but I hadn't taken enough cash, so just a little vase this time. Next year however...

We went to exciting swimming pool with lots of slides. No photos the cameras were not allowed.

We went punting

 Husband did a great job. He only lost the pole once.

Eldest daughter 

Youngest daughter

My mother made dresses for the Sylvanians, so lots of playing.

Did some sewing finally this week

Managed to get some time to do some sewing in. I made two bags using Simplicity pattern 2551.

The yellow bag is made from my friends curtains and some fabric another friend donated from her stash. Youngest daughter loves the touchy feely ness of the velvet curtains and the different material for the inside and pockets. Friend L wants a bag like it too, with Kangaroo lining. Well maybe Christmas present for her I think. 

I then used some left over from my Ikea curtains to make another bag. I teamed this with Spring Street by P&B Textiles as the lining and trim. I like the green bag best but daughter one has claimed it. I am allowed to borrow it though. 

Have a good weekend.

Not much happening

I have had precious little time for sewing. Children are home, puppy has become an adolescent and work (paid for work I should say) has finally arrived.

I have made cushion covers for a friend out of her old curtains. Not very exciting but at least it's something.

Have a good summer hols I will try to be more interesting soon.

Fresh sewing day

I thought I hadn't done that much in July because paid work kicked off and the summer hols started.

 I made lots of little purses to give away to people. I also made two pencil cases for special more deserving teachers. I seem to have misplaced the pictures of those though.

 Little wallets made using a pattern bought at quilt taffy's Etsy shop.

 Husband has a "man" version, which is on a business trip with him as we speak.

I made two of these blocks using a tutorial on Lilly's quilts.

I finished Kaleidoscope baby quilt and a cushion for my mother. I also started a dress for Darling daughter but that is still a WIP and did some work on Monochrome quilt.

Well must get on with some report writing before I take the girls to the farm.
I am linking this to the small blog meet.

Work in Progress Wednesday

I haven't shared for a while what I have been up to.

There has been some progress on the Monochrome quilt.

 Not enough though. I must knuckle down to get this finished before September.

 I may have started something new as well. I have been using scraps to cut half square triangles with my Accuquilt. Luckily they were just the right size for LynneBobSquarepants block.  It's out of my comfort zone to use black but I rather like it. I have somehow acquired 3 black fat quarters. I will see how far they will get me.

 I bought another die for the Accuquilt (on ebay) and the daughters have had fun decorating old pillow cases.

Daughter one was the photographer.

And I should be finishing this dress. My excuse is that both girls are at home and a horde of playmobils have taken over my sewing room and it's seriously hot at the moment. My hands are too sweaty. I hope it cools down a bit tomorrow.

I am linking to FreshlyPieced for the WIP Wednesday.

Little wallet

Yesterday in the post came an envelope from Quilttaffy with a pattern for a little wallet. Super quick delivery and super easy to follow pattern.

 I made two little wallets today after a quick trip to my local haberdasher to buy some snappy poppy buttons. They cost a princely sum of 8p each.

 As you can see the wallets have been acquired by the daughters. They are perfect for carrying around connect four counters.

 Or real paper money in the case of this purse. Oma and Opa have been round to read reports today and they decided that they were worth some money.

I am afraid that on Monday the money will go to the toy shop and will become Fillies.

Ooops

Do you remember that I wasn't going to buy anymore fabric until I had cleared the stash? No? Good. Because I went fabric shopping with my mother. Well our local fabric warehouse had a sale it would have been rude not to...

 I bought some more Russian dolls because darling daughter2 wants a skirt from this fabric. The green leaves are for daughter 2, for a dress.

I also bought some boy type fabrics. I have had some requests from friends with boys to make some boy things. I like the robots. But that could well be because they are lime green and blue my favourite colours.

Can't wait to get started. Alas the real world is catching up. I work freelance and I have just been asked to do some work. I guess I had better do it even though it's school holidays. I have to earn money somehow to keep myself in fabric and shoes :-)

Have a good weekend.