Handbags at Half Term

So a half term Tuesday morning with my boys of three and ten and my daughter of seven and 3 of her friends, I decided that some structure might help keep things real.  We went for a make your own handbag workshop for the girls.  Samuel went for make your own phone cover and Nathan went for mostly colouring in and cutting out.  We went for super simple fleece fabric so hems were not an issues.  The girls made a paper pattern each and then drew round the pattern onto the fleece.

Nathan opted to mostly do colouring but chose pink fleece for his bag - all the girls went for blue.

The girls then cut out their fleece shapes and decorated them with fabric pens.

Samuel used a recycled T shirt to make a cover for his phone and then decorate it to his own personal design.

The girls then all had a go at turning the handle on the old Singer 66K to put their bags together before we attached a strap to each one and they all dashed off to play on the Wii!

How many sewing machines does one woman need?

I think that about four is the ideal number : 0 )

1916 Singer 99K

1918 Singer 66K

1950's Singer 185 electric

New Toyota with many fancy features

Birthday Quilt for Grandma

I've been to the Cath Kidston shop again!  Added hand prints of the children to this one using bondaweb.

Cath Kidston Quilt

I'm lucky enough to have a Cath Kidston outlet store just up the road from me so I used a bargain selection of fabrics for my first attempt at quilting.  It's a firm favourite with both my daughter and the dog.

Recycled Sari Mei Tai and Bag

This traditional Asian style baby carrier is fab for when little legs get tired.  This is toddler sized example has a fabric body of recycled Sari fabric and gold strap fabric from Dunelm.  The waist and shoulders are padded with fleece fabric.  There was enough fabric left over for a matching handbag too!

Boden inspired child's T-shirt

Boden at a fraction of the price!  This is a supermarket value white T-shirt with owl decoration using some quilting offcuts.  I used bondaweb to prevent fraying and to make it easier to build up the layers of the image.

Cable Handbag

A made up pattern - details are here.  Perfect present for Grandma!

Toddler Slippers

Made from some chunky natural wool that I hand dyed with food colour using this pattern and 5mm needles - they are just right for 2-3 year old feet!

Purple Baby Jacket

Quick baby jacket for someone at work with a baby girl on the way.