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Month: March 2014

Beautiful blue birds

3 / 23 / 14

Look at these beautiful blue birds!  Well they’re turquoise really I would say, but that would have spoiled my alliterative title…

fabric freedom birds

Anyway, the fabric is by Fabric Freedom and I really love it.  So much that I made a top out of it.

sorbetto top with sleeves

sorbetto fabric freedom birds

Check out the real sleeves…

sorbetto top birds

…and the contrasting yellow binding hidden inside.

I wanted to try another Sorbetto but this time with sleeves as sometimes a vest top can be a little too, well, little, especially for spring.  I am not clever enough at sewing to add my own sleeves but fortunately after a little browse I found this pattern piece on a blog called Sew Incidentally so I decided to try it.  It is for a bigger size than my pattern for the Sorbetto, but I just cut it out as it was then when it was time to add the sleeves I just pinned from the middle outwards and cut off the excess once I’d sewed it…  Probably not the actual proper way but it worked a treat!  It took me about a week to make overall, but I didn’t have much spare time this week so it was not too bad in fact.

Thanks for your help, fellow sewists of the internet x

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Finished!

3 / 14 / 143 / 15 / 14

I finally finished my cute cloud project – it’s a little wall hanging memo board!

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Here’s what I did, if you ever want to make one.  Just to remind you, I got my wooden shapes from this shop here.

First I laid my shapes out how I wanted them, then I drilled holes in both the cloud and the raindrops with the tiniest drill bit I could find.  Well it wasn’t actually the smallest one in the box, I couldn’t get that one out…  I used an electric screwdriver instead of a big drill, I was worried about breaking the wood – it’s only about 6mm thick.  Anyhow, it worked really well.

Then I painted blackboard paint onto the cloud, being extra careful around the edges.  I did 3 coats in all.

For the raindrops I chose the fabrics I wanted then cut out a piece slightly larger than each drop.  I coated the front of the wooden shape with mod-podge (PVA would do it as well I would think, maybe slightly watered down) and also the back of the fabric, then laid the fabric onto the shape, sticky sides together.  I smoothed them down then put a layer of mod-lodge on top too.  Once they were dry I trimmed the overhanging edges down carefully with scissors and poked the hole through with a pin.

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When the cloud was dry I painted the edges of the cloud with pink paint just for a little zing of extra colour.

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To assemble the hanging I put gold thread through the holes in the cloud and through each droplet, then tied them when I’d chosen the length I wanted.

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I made 2 more drill holes in the top of the cloud and put some twine through to hang it by – I put the twine through from back to front and made a knot in the end.  That way the knots became a feature.

Hey presto, a cute cloud memo board!  Think I might need some new chalk though…

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Rainy day

3 / 12 / 143 / 11 / 14

I bought these cute unfinished wooden shapes from this lovely shop a little while back. I don’t know why but I just love cloud & raindrop motifs! There are loads more lovely shapes in the shop, might have to revisit these lo-tech jewels!, although I did also buy some teeny little speech bubbles & a teeny little cloud with raindrops while I was there. I was paying p&p anyway, it’s always best to make the most of it…

Anyhow, back to my little fluffy cloud & raindrops. They’ve been sitting on my desk ever since they arrived, being admired and occasionally rearranged, while I thought about what to do with them.

20140311-214349.jpgI have finally decided on something decorative & spring like to go with my my vintage sheet cushion, but you will have to wait and see what it is. Nearly finished now, just waiting for the last bits of paint to dry and then I can assemble it! Yehaa! I will pop pictures on here when it’s all done.

 

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Hello hellebores

3 / 6 / 143 / 1 / 14

There are loads of these beauties in my garden – nothing to do with me, they must like the soil round here!  They always look down though, so you don’t get to see their pretty faces.  I love the contrast of their simple shape with the frilliness of all the stamens in the centre, and their subtle muted colours.

hellebore 2

hellebore 3

hellebore

Bloomin’ lovely!

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Vintage sheet cushion

3 / 4 / 143 / 1 / 14

My charm pack of vintage sheet squares that I impulse bought off ebay is now a cute little vintage sheet patchwork cushion!

vintage sheet cushion

so these, well some of them, 

vintage sheet charmpack

became this cushion, with a white strip at the side as a break from all those crazy florals.  I chose my favourite 9 squares and arranged them so they balanced each other, then sewed them together and added the white strip down one side.  I used some reclaimed red gingham from an old duvet cover for the backing and a contrasting green zip.

vintage sheet cushion 3

vintage sheet cushion 2

That’s brightened up my sofa!  x

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Order from chaos

3 / 1 / 143 / 1 / 14

Well, a tiny bit.  I’ve been cutting fabric scraps up into neat squares today.  It was a bit boring.  But hopefully I can then use them to make something wonderful like this cushion here...  Check back in a few days sometime to see whether I’ve made any progress! 

scrappy squares

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