A tour of my sewing/computer room........

Ok this is my sewing/computer room........I just cleaned it up yesterday making way for my new overlocker.......Ok there is probley a little more cleaning to do but it will do for now, it is better than what is was LOL!!!!!!
As you first walk in the door straight ahead under the window is my Horn sewing cabinet with my Janome sewing machine and my Brother pooh bear embroidery machine (that I still have arguments with we aren't quite on speaking terms at the moment LOL) and where the green cutting mat is, that is where my new overlocker will be sitting when it comes home on Saturday!!! Yah for me!!!!!!! Where you see the brother machine on the edge of the cabinet, just to the right is a built in robe!!!!
Then I have my ironing board set up for ironing seams, interfacing etc.....But I don't iron clothes LOL!!!!!!!

Opposite my sewing cabinet, and behind the door is the computer cabinet...Ok it may need a little clean up and the pile of bills against the wall need to be filed.....

And the built in cupboard I have some material hanging and some in the shelves folded as I didn't have any more hanging room.......Down the bottom is my scrapbooking stuff and on the other side of the hanging area is shelves but is just storing Non-sewing junk..........

A presant for a sweet little boy!!!!

A friend of mine that live on the Gold Coast had a sweet little boy 3 weeks ago, and I made these little explorer overalls a while ago but just needed to get some self cover buttons to finish them (thanks Lincraft, if I had of got that order that was placed on the 20th July I would of been able to finish them!!!!!!) so yesterday I had to buy some more and finish these off.....(they look familiar you say??? Yes I made the exact same pair a while ago in a size bigger for a Christening presant!! I love the little explorer overalls, they are so cute.)
And the cards I made to go with the presants. The pink one is for the little boys big sister who turned 2. I made here this dress......

A close up of the embossing I done on the card...........

I hope they like it!!!!!

Amelia Top!!!

I decided it was time to make myself something so here is a top that I saw on Vik's blog and it looked so great I just had to make myself one!!!!!!!!
The fabric is Sandi Henderson vintage cherries, I received 1m free from Bella and Vintage for ordering 4 O+S patterns in there sale. So not bad for a free top!!!!!!
Me modelling the top!!!! The bottom piece is a little tight around my bum unfortuntly!!!!!!!

Also thanks Vik for the tip on using hair clips for the bias around the arm holes, it worked a treat!!!!!!

Popover Sundress by Oliver + S

It's a friends little girls 2nd birthday on Monday.....And to be honest I had forgotten till yesterday when Mel was looking at making something for a two year old. Jen suggested the O+S popover sundress free pattern so I thought I would give it a go too.....Jen said it was an easy pattern to make and it was, but it took me a lot longer than everyone else to make it as I changed it a little.........

So the dress......I made it with a light weight denim and sunflower fabric I found hidden.....I have no little girl fabrics...........But I don't think it came out too bad at all, I am quite happy with my efforts for once........LOL!!!!!!!!
I added yellow ric rac to the yoke, and blue ric rac as a border around the bottom sunflower fabric........

A close up of the yoke and yellow ric rac...

And my labels arrived today just in time....Well I did have to do a little unpicking to put them on but oh well.....Doesn't it look so professional now!! LOL!!!!

I have had a few people ask where I got hte lables from so I thought I would add in a link here.

I got them from Charm woven lables.

My boys and there new toy!!!!!!

My In-laws brought this 'New Holland' pedal tractor (trac-ter as AJ calls it) and AJ thought all his Christmas's had come at once last night when they brought it down for him!!!!!
AJ trying to ride his Tractor, he can't reach the pedals yet!

AJ pushing Mummy on the tractor!

AJ being a nude poser!!! He has just had a bath and he was trying to avoid getting dressed by climbing up on the back of the lounge!!!!

AARRGGHH!!!!! Where does the time go???? Dominic is now 6 months old and won't be long and he will be crawling....He loves to get on the floor and try to play with his big brother!!!!

Dominic playing with the little tractor!

My First Quilt!!!

Ok I am going to attempt my first quilt, well my second if you class this small cot quilt as a quilt????
You may remember a few weeks ago I put out a call for help on designing a SB quilt for my DS using the fabric my SIL gave me!! Well Novy came to my rescue and found a heap of designs on Flickr for me, then I tried to do up a design for myself and couldn't get the measurements right. So a lovely lovely lady, AJ from EB came to my rescue and offered to draw one up for me and and help me on the way.......AAWW how nice of her!!!! So she is putting up the steps (this is strp 1) on her blog for me to follow so if you want to join me in making my first quilt, you can!!!!!!!!

So this is what I started with.

And I purchased these two fabrics to go with it.....(I know I know the green is a christmas fabric, but I loved the gold on the green and it was the only green that matched really well...)

So now here is all the fabrics together.........(I don't know why my pics keep going on the side like this but it is annoying me!!!!)

All I need to get is one more fabric for the outside border but I couldn't find anything suitable so thought I can get that later....

A huge big thank you AJ for offering to help me out with this I really appricate it...........I hope I can pull it off now......

Ok I will post my progress along the way so stayed tune...........

Another order all wrapped up nicely!!!!

I feel like it is Christmas or my Birthday, with all these orders coming and all wrapped up so nicely!!!!
This order is from Patchwork with Busyfingers And it is a pattern for a Dilly Bag, made from quilt as you go Hexagons!!!!! I am going to use the bag as a sewing bag to keep all my bits and pieces in!!!!!!!!!

And I must say super fast postage too!!!!!!