A new start for Mooloo

Js_Other_Half

Mooloo wrote: »

There is a panel meeting tomorrow about the Bromford Housing flats that the girls missed out on last time. They are being put foreward for them again.! I hope that they get them this time, as then they will have 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, sittingroom and a bathroom.! So fingers crossed.

Fingers firmly crossed!

Floss

Mooloo wrote: »

...I will be thinking about what else I could do, with the rest of the jean leg that has the beaded butterflies etc on....

How about a clutch bag? Would it be popular as a going-out bag for girls the age of your twins?

Savvy_sewing

Floss wrote: »

How about a clutch bag? Would it be popular as a going-out bag for girls the age of your twins?

Thats quite a good idea. I think I would need to buy some interfacing, or stiffener to make a clutch bag.
I noticed that BF's 16 yr old tends to have small bags, but on a long strap that she wears like a satchel across her chest. As apposed to just on the shoulder. I am not sure what I could substitue/recycle to stiffen them. mmm:rolleyes: Something to think about.
I may have to purchase some on the internet, as I cannot get out of the village yet.
Although I am hoping to get a lift from my BF back to Oxford this weekend, while Biggest of Mooloo's boyfriend trys to get my car sorted out.:D

workinmummy

Hi Mooloo. I have been reading your thread with interest. I am very impressed with your sewing skills. I have a five year old son and second baby due in 6 weeks. And would so love to knit or crochet a blanket, but have no idea where to start. Have spend ages looking on ebay in admiration of others skills. I also bought a bag from a lady in the States on the website Etsy. To use as my baby bag, or diaper bag as they say over there, i'm sure you could use your skills to that end. Just a thought. Baby bags seem to be a very "with it" acessory at the moment. (Mine doesn't have a water proof lining - just lots of essential pockets).

Just wanted to wish you luck in your endeavors and will keep reading, though i have no skills i can offer advise to you on, i do like reading others thoughts.

Savvy_sewing

Hi, Workinmummy,
nice to hear/read your ideas. You would have thought that with two grandchildren and another (at least one) on the way, I would have thought of that! Diaper bags.!
Congratulations on the bump. Do you know what it is?
Re knitting and crocket, I am only a very basic knitter. I used to knit when I went to see my granny when I was little, then I didnt touch it for years.
My sister is the knitter and embroidery person. (She hated it as a child, but now as a granny it has come into her own!).
I like to see results quite quickly. A project that i can start in the morning and end in the evening!!! Not always possible.
It has been many years since I hd sewn, so I had lost the enthusiasm and the confidence. But the interest on here has motivate me again. This time I am creating with left overs/recycling clothing, etc so I am feeling I am also doing my bit for landfil, as well as the charity shops that I pick up my clothes/get my ideas from.
When I see something on the hangers I think now what could I make out of that<
or This would make a nice so and so!!!
Cushioncovers are the quick and simper things to do.
I have a pattern that I had for years that is a baby changing bag, moses basket lining and quilted blankets.
So perhaps I can dig it out and make some of them!.

Savvy_sewing

Right, I am hoping that I have juggled my life and will be going to Oxford to see my BF, so I am going to finish bunging a few things into a bag, and get the dining room sorted out. (And make sure the cravats are in a place where daughter can collect them!).
I may not be on the computer much now as I dont have wifi at BF's so I dont tend to take my laptop with me.
Although that also may be a bit of wishful thinking as we have to actually finalise plans as the car is due to go and have its brakes done!.

workinmummy

Mooloo wrote: »

Hi, Workinmummy,

Congratulations on the bump. Do you know what it is?

No, didn't find out. We like suprises. My mum used to knit years ago when i was little, she was very good, but gave it up when she developed something like tennis elbow. I do have some lovely baby cardigans that my boss's mum knit for me when i had DS and could never bring myself to part with. I am 35, but very traditional in what i think a baby should wear, ie babygrow / sleepsuit and cute cardy and little hat, not into putting them in jeans and outfits so young. :rolleyes:

But anyway i digress from your thread. Good luck with the recycling and i look forward to seeing more of your creations.

Savvy_sewing

Workinmummy, you are welcome on "my thread" anytime.
There really isnt a theme to it. More like a mature (I am 48) mum/grannies ramblings.
What size cot blanket are you thinking of? Is it for a moses basket. (I love mosesbaskets, the babies in little white babygrows and hand knitted cardigans, not forgetting those little white hats and mittens to stop the scratching.").
Many years ago I used to make clothes for children/babies. I had a franchise from a london company. They designed the clothes, and then I made them up and sold them sort of party plan. But after the first years samples, the fabrics they supplied became so cheap and nasty that i wouldnt make or sell it anymore. (That was when I had the DD andthe twins, and a new baby.
DS was 6 weeks old when I went to London to have a course with them!).

workinmummy

Sorry, was actually doing work, whilst at work.
Yeah was thinking moses basket / pram sized.
Will resign myself to a lovely crochet one i've seen on ebay. Apparently
a granny blanket made by a real granny.

May check out if there is anything on you tube re crochet and knitting.
OH will think i've gone mad if i try to make something. He didn't "get it" when i took up beading a couple of years ago. But that fell by the wayside because my imagination isn't upto much.

Hope you enjoy your weekend with your BF. Look like it may acutally be a nice one. Even up here in the North West.

Savvy_sewing

workinmummy wrote: »

Sorry, was actually doing work, whilst at work.
Yeah was thinking moses basket / pram sized.
Will resign myself to a lovely crochet one i've seen on ebay. Apparently
a granny blanket made by a real granny.

May check out if there is anything on you tube re crochet and knitting.
OH will think i've gone mad if i try to make something. He didn't "get it" when i took up beading a couple of years ago. But that fell by the wayside because my imagination isn't upto much.

Hope you enjoy your weekend with your BF. Look like it may acutally be a nice one. Even up here in the North West.

I am sure that there will be something on the internet on crochet/knitting. I know that when I was running my charityshop last year, we had a regular person who knitted cot blankets and we sold them in the shop for £2.75 each! Rediculously low prices I thought. All that work. But it was all we could get. Probably because we had so many supplied throught the year!.

I am hoping to make a new moses basket cover for my next grandchild, due in January. We already have a moses basket, but over the last two years it has sort of lost its covers.!
BF is now coming here today, this evening, and stopping as his daughter has changed her plans and we will be going back to Oxford tomorrow.
I have made sure there is enough food in the freezer for DS if he does come home. (He just popped in for 5 minutes to take a parcel to the post office for me, as DD didnt come on Wednesday as planned!).
So I will probably come back on Tuesday evening, if thats OK with BF.
Hopefully by then my car will be sorted out and back on the road. Its due an MOT on the 14th so I may as well get it done now. Eek the expense.
Better find out what else I can make and sell!
I have a pile of remenants sitting here just calling to me to make them into something.
I think I need to make a few varieties of things and see what I can make that is simplest and will earn me a few pennies here and there.
Really want to pay off the water bill from the old house.(Not to mention a few other things).
Now that I am not going to Oxford today, and everything is ready for the weekend. Sewing area tidied up, etc. All the washing up to date. There is only the ironing to do.
But I am looking out of the window and thinking that perhaps sitting in the garden might be a thing to do while the sun is actually out.!:T