The Sewing Room

irishgirl62 wrote: »

I got my DS wallet done yesterday in between housework so that today i could have more time on the machine! :-)

you can see it on my blog it is here http://sharonfranklin.blogspot.com/2011/05/wallet-from-my-ds-jeans.html

thats fab i am sure he will love it

I have just subscribed to a couple of magazines my Mum pointed me into the direction of, but already I have forgotten the name of one of them! eek,
the second is called Simply Homemade. Its on issue 3 at the moment. But it looked quite rounded for a crafting magazine so we will see when it arrives. I managed to do a back order for issue 3 but issue 1 and 2 were sold out. Ah well.
I didnt get to do anymore sewing, but managed to find another box full of fabrics, and BF carried it up to my work room before he left.
We concentrated on the garden yesterday and then he did the loft ladder/hatch and I finally cleared the front room of boxes!
(its only taken me 5 months! ). Only my bedroom to go now then!
I have all those bags etc cut out from Friday night, so if I get DGD settled this evening, and I am not completely exhausted I may have a sew.

Mooloo wrote: »

I have just subscribed to a couple of magazines my Mum pointed me into the direction of, but already I have forgotten the name of one of them! eek,
the second is called Simply Homemade. Its on issue 3 at the moment. But it looked quite rounded for a crafting magazine so we will see when it arrives. I managed to do a back order for issue 3 but issue 1 and 2 were sold out. Ah well.
I didnt get to do anymore sewing, but managed to find another box full of fabrics, and BF carried it up to my work room before he left.
We concentrated on the garden yesterday and then he did the loft ladder/hatch and I finally cleared the front room of boxes!
(its only taken me 5 months! ). Only my bedroom to go now then!
I have all those bags etc cut out from Friday night, so if I get DGD settled this evening, and I am not completely exhausted I may have a sew.

do you ever stop? you always seem to be on the go i dont know how you do it:)

i buy simply homemade its quite nice ive not subscribed though but have had all the issues.

its as you say dabbles in bits of everything.

i also get
sew hip,
homestyle sewing
sew (not everymonth),
crafts beautiful (not everymonth)
your home

and i am now waiting for the verdict on the mollie makes someone posted about on her the other day.

Real quick question, I'll check back later as I have to go out now!
I ordered some shirring elastic from ebay for what I thought was a reasonable price (doesn't compare to the 40p a roll from fabric land though ). I've just run out of shirring elastic for DD's skirt and gone to wind the next bobbin using the new reel. It's really blimmin thin! I don't think it's even shirring elastic. It looks like what you would use in underwear. It has barely any stretch to it whatsoever and as such is completely useless for what I need it for.
Before I make a fool of myself, could one of you kind ladies confirm that there's only 1 thickness that is actually called shirring elastic before I message the seller?
I'm so mad, I have nearly finished her thing and now can't do it until tomorrow. Gah- rant etc!

I have been super busy today had to rearrange my craft room as we had no space for uni work and I had piled up the bed with stuff. My craft room is my little brothers old bedroom for when he used to stay here a lot he hardly does now but we have him for 5 days this week which means he needs a bed

It does look much better for being tidied because it is such a small room. Does anyone have any tutorials for storage, useful things for a craft room? I made a quick fabric bucket thing with a tab to be hung on a hook today, I am going to make some more smaller ones this week