The Sewing Room

Savvy_sewing

Just been contacted asking for sewing lessons/information, so I may be able to get my "business" off of the ground sooner then I thought! Whoopie.
Lets hope that it is a lead to bigger and better things!.

Sunshine12

Mooloo wrote: »

Just been contacted asking for sewing lessons/information, so I may be able to get my "business" off of the ground sooner then I thought! Whoopie.
Lets hope that it is a lead to bigger and better things!.

Thats great news Mooloo. Dead happy for you. Now, how can I persuade you to move to Scotland....!!

23rdspiral

Sunshine12 wrote: »

Not sure if anyone frequents the freebies board but I sometimes do and came across a few links for free fabric swatches.

i ordered the 2 sofa fabric swatches, and loved the packaging that came with the comfy sofa company ones. we will need a new sofa when we hopefully move, so i had no guilt, this was research! actually it was, as i found i hated the 'textured linen' despite it looking nice in the photo. most of my John Lewis ones are still to come, but i got the big dotty one like you already!

Mooloo wrote: »

Just been contacted asking for sewing lessons/information, so I may be able to get my "business" off of the ground sooner then I thought! Whoopie.
Lets hope that it is a lead to bigger and better things!.

congratulations Mooloo! :T

Savvy_sewing

Sunshine12 wrote: »

Thats great news Mooloo. Dead happy for you. Now, how can I persuade you to move to Scotland....!!

Correspondence courses????
Perhaps I will get famous and run workshops all over the place!! (ha ha).

Kandipandi

Mooloo - Congratulations - its a great idea and something that I imagine will be very rewarding as a job.
Hart44 - Im so envious that you have sorted your mothers day gifts, mine sadly have not happened yet and its a week on Sunday!! Arghhh, I must get cracking, if I dont find any nice doggie / cat material by Saturday (to make peg bags and carrier bag holders) I think I will have to buy a gift instead (Arggghhh........).
Sunshine12 - Thanks for the fabric swatches idea - I ordered some the other day and I had to pre warn DH that I was sending for freebies - as lots of packages keep arriving and he must think I am spending a fortune on fabric!!
Not made anthing for a while as my sewing machine is being ignored for my beading at the minute, wanted to make a few bag charms and nice beaded zip pulls for my bags and makeup bags, but it has become a bigger obsession and I'm making earrings, necklaces, bracelets and I'm addicted!
Please let me have 5 day weekends and 2 day working weeks to do it all in

Sunshine12

Kandipandi wrote: »

Sunshine12 -
Not made anthing for a while as my sewing machine is being ignored for my beading at the minute, wanted to make a few bag charms and nice beaded zip pulls for my bags and makeup bags, but it has become a bigger obsession and I'm making earrings, necklaces, bracelets and I'm addicted!
Please let me have 5 day weekends and 2 day working weeks to do it all in

Great to hear you enjoying your beading. I dont think Id have the patience for that...too fiddly! I have some crafts beautiful magazines that have lots of stuff in them for bead suppliers/some tutorials etc so if you need any links for suppliers etc give me a shout.

PepPop

Mooloo Congratulations I hope it goes really well for you :T:T and what about webcam tutorials so it still has a personal touch??

Savvy_sewing

PepPop wrote: »

Mooloo Congratulations I hope it goes really well for you :T:T and what about webcam tutorials so it still has a personal touch??

Perhaps I will practise on some people first, then when I have it sorted thats a brilliant idea!. As long as I have a way of getting an income too! cos I really do need to earn some money before I loose my home! :eek::D

PepPop

Mooloo wrote: »

Perhaps I will practise on some people first, then when I have it sorted thats a brilliant idea!. As long as I have a way of getting an income too! cos I really do need to earn some money before I loose my home! :eek::D

Could you maybe organise something with Paypal so that when you get the money they get access to you (that sounds a bit dodgy but you know what I mean )

karmacookie

Hi

Well i finally finished a fully lined bag! I wish I could share it with you but still can't find camera! Oh, and I made some small curtains for the inside of the doors on my welsh dresser!

Not having such a good day today, discovered fraud on my bank account so a bit stressed. Decided to make a spec case, simple and stress free I would have thought, wrong. What a flipping pigs ear I made of it! Still another learning experience as I broke the needle and needed to change it and discovered that it is in fact very easy to change a needle on a sewing machine!

I continue to be so very impressed and inspired by the creations on this thread, I really am in awe!

Found this the other day, thought it looked good and very usefull
http://www.isew.co.uk/kids_makes/quillow-c-00041.htm

it's from the 'kids can make' section so should be quite easy?

Need to go and do housework/cooking/walk dog/clean fish tank now then go to work this evening