Ready and raring to sew

I've been hard at work preparing for my dressmaking course this weekend; I tell you it's been exhausting.

So far I have:

1. bought some matching thread for my fabric
2. finally decided on a pattern
3. watched all of season 8 of Project Runway (for research purposes, v important)

So this is what I'll be massacaring making this weekend:

Phew, must be time for a glass of wine after all that hard work.

Me + Mood 4eva

I *heart* Mood. If it was a person I’d marry it and we’d have gorgeous fabric babies and live happily ever after. But it's a shop so that is just crazy talk.
I spent a fab few hours in there with my Mother dearest, me mostly running (ish) up and down the cotton aisle looking for dress fabric, throwing desparate looks at the gorgeous jersey knits that I haven't a clue how to sew and Mama ogling the silks. Unfortunately I am still a knee cripple after surgery so I couldn’t stay in there as long as I wanted but I did get some super snazzy fabric for two dresses. I wanted to go back another day but it was closed (a good thing in the end as I was 3.5kgs over my luggage allowance as it was).

Brown flowery stripey cotton, plain cotton sateen and a peacock print rayon

I did also meander over to City Quilter to get some other bits and found this little selection of awesomeness.

These bad boys are destined to be a house warming gift for my BFF

 I’m thinking of starting a campaign to get Mood to open a London branch. Who’s with me?

P.S. Does Swatch the dog only show up when the Project Runway crew are there? I've been into that shop at least four times and have never seen evidence of said canine.

Done and dusted

The baby quilt, finally restored to its former white glory, is finished and handed over to baby Joseph. Now here's hoping that no one looks too closely at the stitches, or the pencil marks that didn't wash out of the white fabric, or any of the other 'features'. For all the mistakes hopefully only I notice, I've learnt so much making this and I'm looking forward to cracking on with the next project on my lengthy to do list.

Slightly odd angle thanks to my standing on top of a chair vantage point

An extra little embroidery owl for the label

Holy guacamole Batman

I never thought I'd see the day. I have actually finished a craft project. Okay so it's a little late (*ahem* about a year but who's counting?) but still, it's finished. Unfortunately, it is also pink. It is supposed to be white.

What are you talking about? That looks white to me

Oh yeah, it's definitely pink

 

It's currently soaking in some super white stain removal stuff but I don't have high hopes for a complete restoration.

I also managed to sew my finger to the binding yesterday so it really was a comedy of errors. If I didn't laugh I'd cry!