The Sewing Room

pennib

I've been pretty busy with my new puppy but dd made this going out coat for her, out of fur, and a piece of red fabric.



As there is quite a chill in the air I had some blue fur and adapted my dd pattern and made it slightly longer.


It's quite a bright pink in real life (Nikki shares my love of pink and red, haha) with green frogs running up it.
The coat that was purchased in the shop was hopeless as she is so small she kept stepping out of it and didn't like putting her head through the polo type neck.
More photos in the usual place.

winniepooh

hi all

im going to make some new envelope cushions for the lounge 5 in total. im on a tight budget of £25. i already have the padding.

im doing solid black backs and patterned front to match the rug, black with big grey/silver swirls.

i have tried charity shops with no luck and im going to try b&m to see if the have any cheap quilt covers.

any suggestions?

blossomhill_2

rufus - I see you are in Kent - this one is nice, collection only from Paddock Wood - anywhere near you?

rufusdog52

Da*n you shouldnt have shown me that lol. I dont drive so cant get there even though its not too far away, I am in Medway towns

greentiger

RUCraft has a new site starting up called Stitch, Craft, Create. Theyre offering free downloads of an ebook of patterns for making bags at http://ideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk/download-sewing-patterns-for-bags/
There's also one for knitting stitches
http://ideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk/knitting-stitches/

Rikki

greentiger wrote: »

RUCraft has a new site starting up called Stitch, Craft, Create. Theyre offering free downloads of an ebook of patterns for making bags at http://ideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk/download-sewing-patterns-for-bags/
There's also one for knitting stitches
http://ideas.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk/knitting-stitches/

Thank you for the links. I will copy the knitting link over to the Knitters Thread.

craftycrafty

afternoon
hope your all well and keeping dry, it hasn't stopped raining here but at least the wind has dropped.

hope your projects are going to plan, . I had to alter the plans for the pelmets. The people I'm doing them for wanted them gathered like the original ones,but as the fabric is thick they wouldn't go right so we decided on pleats instead. I did get the headboards recovered over the weekend. Should have everything done by Friday. Want to make a could door stops next out of old jeans that's next week's task I hope.

happy stitching . take care

moments_of_sanity

Spent most of today stitching my quilting honeycomb shapes around the template and going to start hand sewing them later.

Here is my progress so far.......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91707691@N04/8427554602/in/photostream

blossomhill_2

Thanks for the link greentiger - bags are good!
Well I bought 10 of the fabric sample books and think I've died and gone to heaven with the potential of it all at the moment, I may just spread them out and roll around on them for a while like in the film "Buster"
Some of the fabrics have prices on at £75 a metre so I don't want to waste them, but are mainly dry clean so will need some thought, esp the embroidered silk which looks a bit tricky

winniepooh

Today I have made a pin cushion for my mum. I made it quite quickly and it looked great so then I thought I would make one for myself and bloody hell did I struggle. I still haven't finished it now. Its the ladder stitch that's frustrating me