July 6, 2009
I really love this RSA Hospital Use Only fabric. You might remember it from this post about the gift I embroidered for a friend, along with the Sublime Stitching Anatomical Heart. This time I turned it into a bag, and added a pocket because I decided it was time.
Hospital Use Only bag.
Can haz pocket.
Anatomical heart for added fun.
July 3, 2009
I finally got round to making an apron. I’ve been wanting to do this for ages. I have apron love. But for some reason I’ve been scared. I have a copy of A is for Apron. I visit Tie One On regularly. And yet I just couldn’t pull it together to make one. Then the beautiful Bronwen bought me a haphazardly made and yet charming apron from the car-boot market, and I found myself inspired. Not only did I make an apron, I totally winged it. I didn’t want to take my car-boot apron apart to cut a pattern from it, so I vaguely took some measurements off it and then made it up as I went along. Apart from my obvious need to pay more attention to tutorials on making pockets (who knew they were actually quite difficult to get right?), I’m quite pleased with the outcome.
The original car-boot market apron in lovely blue shwe-shwe.
New flirty red polka-dot apron for crumpet-making on Sundays.
And another pic just 'cause I'm so pleased with myself.
July 2, 2009
After sweet Lala inspired me to try the fat quarter bags on Sew Mama Sew I kept on with them. And decided that the first bag I had made, which was intended as a gift for Lala, was just not good enough. So today I unpicked it and remade it. I’m enamoured of the pleated version of the bag, but I’m just struggling to get those pleats right. So (sorry Lala) it’s not perfect, but it’s a lot cuter than it was. I think so anyway. Soon it’ll be winging its way to Cape Town filled with all sorts of goodies…
Lala's bag, reshaped and with pleats for extra fun.
July 2, 2009
It’s been a frenzy of bag-making this week and I finally got some good photos. Well, sort of. I seem to get better at bag-making with practice but still trying to get the hang of the damn digital camera.
One fat quarter bag and three variations on the spring bag. I'm having fun.
June 26, 2009
A while back I posted about this lovely idea from Twig and Thistle. Since then I’ve seen it done a few times by other embroiderers. With another birthday to gift for, I decided to give it a go. Lucky for me, the birthday boy had chosen this beautiful ee cummings stanza as his birthday ‘motto’ (sort of), so I didn’t have to work to hard to come up with the perfect lines…
Text embroidery in progress.
Text all done. Time for the finishing touch.
Now it looks like a page from a school notebook. And it's kind of signed.
The back looks kind of like there's a hidden message there.
