Before I sew another stitch – or un-pick one, as that seems to be what I have become most skilled at lately, I thought it was way past time that I made another post. With the up-coming Perth Upmarket looming ever so close my sewing room has been a hive of activity lately.

I’m trying to kill two birds with one stone, so as well as making a mountain of goodies for all of you to buy, I have also been trying to get everything ready for the photographer to take some amazing photos for my new patterns. I have the loan of a girlfriends beautiful house so hopefully we can get some great shots in & around her garden & hopefully having a professional take the photos will produce better results then my little pocket camera!

With my design brain stuck in a very strange place, I had a strange notion to do a rainbow squirrel! (I know, where do these ideas come from?!) He is still a work in progress as I am not sure whether to turn him into a wall hanging or a cushion . . . perhaps I’ll do both. I think he needs a few acorns stategically placed as treasure at the end of his rainbow tail & I need to do a Spotlight run to find brown thread – not a colour I am used to working with!!

I’ve also been putting together a Carousel / fairground design & these two lovely performing dogs (minus their eyes) are part of what I have been doing. It was originally a commission for a lovely customer & her daughter & the two dogs are her poodles. They should of course be black, but you know me, can’t stay away from a bit of colour!

There has been plenty of designing going on too for Sew-Along classes & I decided to make a christmas Angel for the tree. I made a few prototypes, un-picked a few, sewed a few more & finally settled on this one. We had a bit of a face book discussion on what to call her with some great suggestions, I particularly like ‘Carol’ but we haven’t had a ‘board meeting’ yet to finalise it . . . I’ll keep you posted. My middle daughter took over one of the earlier prototypes & she spent a leisurely afternoon with me last sunday raiding my scrap buckets & she made her angel a very funky dress as well as a bed & some fine living quarters! It is quite encouraging to see that the sewing gene has been passed onto one of my girls. She just needs to remember to put the foot of the sewing machine down before she starts sewing as it very nearly took all the fun out of the ‘mummy daughter’ experience for mummy!!!!!

Christmas Angel for next Terms Sew-Along

Bellas Angel complete with patchwork dress, pillow & box bed!

Anyone wanting to learn how to make Cushions & handbags, we have some treats for you in class next term. I made a fab handbag yesterday in less than hour but it took me about 4o minutes to unpick it when I realised I sewed the bag handles in the wrong order! Grrrrrrr!

And before I sign off for today, has anyone else noticed that the ‘in’ thing to do in blog land is to make a post about sewing rooms – so I think that I might just go upstairs,  tidy up the scraps, fold my mountain of fabric into colour co-ordinated arrangements, pin lots of inspirational pictures to my pin board & take a few photos . . . on my little pocket camera of course!

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