Mel (Orange~Limes) was out shopping the other day and she remembered that I was chasing some cupcake fabric a while ago she she texted me (I had totally forgotten that I had given her my number LOL) and asked did I want some still, I had already gotten some on Etsy, but then she told me how much it was and it was only $2.50/m I think it was??? So I just had to have some for my stash you never know when I will need it LOL!!! At that price who would say no LOL!!!!!! I think I already have plans for some of it!!!! Something for my niece for Christmas (if I get enough time) maybe a texta roll.......
Anyway while she was there she kindly got me some blue cotton with fire engines on it and also a light cotton drill with embroidered airplanes on it, this will make a cute pair of overalls for DS's....
Thank you sooo very much Mel for thinking of me, I really really appricate it..........I don't know what I would do without all the friendly girls in the EB Beginners Sewing group!!!!!!!!

Beginners Sewers Swap Piece 2!!! What I received.

The other item I received was for DS2 Dominic 8 months. Mel (Orange-~Limes) and it is a lovely drawstring bag.......
And inside the bag is these 3 very very cute balls, aren't they just soooo cute???????

And Dominic with his goodies.........He is sooo happy with them........

Thank you so much Mel for all you time and effort in creating this gift for Dominic!!!!!!

Beginners Sewers Swap Piece 1!!! What I received.

Yah I finially got to town this afternoon to pick up my parcels......The first parcel was from the nice and wonderful Mel, who sewed for AJ who is 2 at the end of November. First can I just say it was nicely wrapped with chrissy paper and a beautiful bow but I opened it when I was still in town as I was just soooo excited and reading about everyone else opening theres today I couldn't wait to get home to take a pic so sorry.....
But Please meet Mr Electron......He is sooo cute, no cute isn't the word, tough looking???? He is just adorable and perfect.............Thank you so much Mel for all you hard work in sewing Mr Electron............

AJ is yet to meet Mr Electron as he stayed with Daddy while I went to town and when I came back he went to sleep so here is a pic of AJ sleeping with Mr Electron... LOL!!!!!!!

Thanks again Mel, we appricate your hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So when is the next swap???? I think I am seriously addicted to swaps..............

Beginners Sewers Swap Piece 2! 'What I made'

The second person I had to sew for was Jotsmum for her little girl J 1 year old. She put her likes/dislikes down as- "she likes putting things in an out of any container, and clothes pegs
books and anything that belongs to Mummy" So I thought about it for a while and thought HMMM a fabric basket of some sort and some blocks so she can put them in and out of the basket......

So I googled and googled and found a tute for this basket and these blocks.......

The inside of the basket.........A little hint if anyone reading this is going to make one, the tute calls for closed cell foam and as I live in a small country town there is no place here to get foam so I got an exercise mat from Crazy Clarks the thin blue ones, and cut that up!!!!LOL!!!!

My first attempt at this basket came out way too small my second attempt came out way too big (and is now being used in my sewing room) so this was third time lucky......

Beginners Sewers Swap Piece 1! 'What I made'

On EB in our 'little group' we had a 'christmas swap' and I opted to sew for 2 people and receive 2 items.....One of my people to sew for was Vik for her little girl M (I promise it was totally random, and I was just in fits of laughter when I drew her name out for me to sew for!!!)
Vik had M's likes/dislikes down as-"pink, pink lol. She does love pink but loves all other colours too.
She loves animals, especially cats, I've often thought of making her a soft toy kitty. She's one of those kids that actually plays with stuffed toys. She loves pretty dresses and will not wear pants (but this is a toy swap right). I know she would love felt food ie eggs, bacon, strawberries etc. I've also thought about making her a fabric hopscotch game or some kind of game with beanbags that she can throw onto matching colour squares or something?? Really truly whatever is made I know she will love, she is that kind of kid! Just like the last swap I'm trying to give my person lots of ideas "
So as soon as I read this I knew I wanted to make a cat of some sort, but I thought I would like to make something that is not just a soft toy but something useful too.....So I spent days and days googling and couldn't find anything then on ebay I came across a pattern for a huge pillow in different animals like of course a cat, dog, elephant, dinosaur, cow, panda and a bear. It is pattern Simplicity #8932 . So I thought I would try and alter the pattern to add a zip underneath and make it into a PJ bag!!!!!!!!!!!!
So please meet 'Catty' as DS1 AJ named her........ Catty is made of pink spotty polar fleece.
I am not happy with the 'smirk' (as Vik has called it) on Catty, it has come out wonky.........

The top of Catty.......

The zippered part I added to make it into a PJ bag........It could of been a little bigger I think, but it was the first one I made so I am quite pleased with it anyway........

Ok now, AJ claimed Catty as his for a while so following is a photo of AJ and Dominic with Catty...

And This is Catty with a ball watching TV, this is how AJ positioned Catty while he played......

And this is a very sad pic, this is AJ saying goodbye to Catty just before I packed her up to be posted off to Vik & M.............I packed her away after he went to bed, the next morning he got up and went into my sewing room where catty was staying and was calling 'Catty, Catty' and when no Catty come out to play there were tears...........So we at this house were sad to see Catty to go but I am hoping M will Catty just as much as we did........

I have plans to make a dog and elephant into PJ bags for the boys for Christmas so lets hope I get it done!!!!!!!

Gotta love a giveaway!!!!

Romi s having a great giveaway (what I wouldn't give to win this one). It is for a gift voucher to be spent at Buyster Lighting. This is such a great and generous giveaway...........Make sure you check it out and enter!!!!!

A giveaway!!! Yah love these!!!!!

Here is a great giveaway from fabricshoppe make sure you check out there blog.....I have purchased material from her Etsy store also and she has great service too............

A top for me!!!!!

I got the pattern and material for this top ages ago and I started it straight away, but I ran in to trouble with the ribbon on the sleeves and had to unpick it all so I sat it aside for awhile, but then I needed a top for a party I had so decided to get it out and finish it off....I am not 100% happy with it (I know I know I am never happy with things I sew) as the you can see on the ribbon where it has been unpicked. But it was dark at the party and noone noticed LOL!!!!!!!!
So I will make this top again if only to prove to myself that I can do it with out a massive amount of unpicking!!!!LOL!!!!
Simplicity It's so easy (yer right) ladies top pattern #2646
A close up of the front and the ribbon......

And half of me modelling it....this was taken at midnight when we got home as we were running late so couldn't take it before LOL!!!!

Another Etsy purcase!!!!!

My latest Etsy purchase....I was searching for some cute Christmas fabric and came across a seller haveing a big sale as she is closing up shop so had to get extras to fill up the satchel...HAHAHAAHAHA
Isn't this cute jungle fabric.....

The Christmas fabric.....

Now these are cute the froggies and crabs (sorry came out a little blurry don't know why!)

And some floral print, not sure what I will do with this one!!!!!!

Sorry pics aren't the best (I really should learn to use the camera better, but hay I am a sewer not a photographer LOL!!!!!!!)

A 50th Wedding Anniversary Prezzie!!!!!!

I made this pouch holder thingy for a gift voucher for a 50th wedding anniversary presant....I just wanted to make it look a little bit nicer than just giving a gift voucher........I am proud of myself as no pattern used...I know I know it was easy but I just can't work without patterns.....I also embroidered on the front with my embroidery machine......

The inside of the pouch...I done button holes to hold the corners of the cards in...(although on came out crooked, but oh well)

They aren't the best pics sorry!!!!

Quilt-a-long....Panel Quilt-Step 1 Completed!!! YAH!!!

As some of you might remember I put a call out for help to do my first quilt, and the lovely AJ put her hand up to help me. Even though she is super busy with her own sewing and her new bub (by the way he is super gorgeous too, check out her blog so many cute pics on there!!!!) she is puting up step by step instructions on her blog for me to follow!!!!!!!!!

So here is step 1 all completed!!! Yah for me!!!!!
So I started with this panel and fabric.
Then I also purchase some more fabric to match.
So step 1 I took of the green border (as the panel was a tad too small) and couldn't get green to match so went with a yellow border, I am happy with the yellow makes it nice and bright!!!!!!!!
Then added the brown stip top and bottom.........Step 1 complete......

It took me a while to pluck up the courage to actually start it as I didn't want to ruin the fabrics, but when I actually started it I was sewing so slow to get it straight and working up a sweat too.....Because as you can see where the yellow border is there is a thin black border I wanted to keep the black border between the panel and yellow (why you ask??? I really don't know just wanted too LOL!!!!!) so as it was so thin it was really hard to sew to get it on the edge of the black.....
Anyway stay tuned for step 2, I have started it but it is a little harder and time consuming so hopefully soon.............

My first card swap!!!!!!!

I participated in a card swap on EB for the first time (I have done a few sewing swaps and had so much fun..)
It was the September Christmas Card Swap, and the technique was tri fold card, I found a tute on the net for this Tri-Shutter Card and just loved the look of the card, so thought I would try it!!!!!!!
A close up of the card.... The merry christmas in the middle is embossed.
I didn't have enough of one paper so had to some half light blue and some dark blue.......

I am quite happy with how these turned out seeing it was the first time making these.....

Little Explorer Shorts...........

I got myself a new Overlocker a couple of weeks ago and haven't tried it yet so thought today I would whip up a pair of shorts............
DS1 Modelling the shorts....

Finally finished my QAYG bag!!!!!!!

I have finally finished my Quilt-As-You-Go (QAYG) bag, to store all my sewing accessories in.......I started this bag awhile ago and it is just 2 different size hexagons (1 being the cherries on the outside and a bigger hexagon being the pink on the inside) and they are ment to be hand sewen together, as I hate handsewing I couldn't imagine hand sewing all the 7 hexagons so I cheated and machine stitched them all..................
The bag open...................