The Sewing Room

jcr16

Danables your blog is very insipring. i love the little girls dresses you made. do you have a pattern for these please?

great door stop i've mentioned before i was gonna make one so i enjoyed reading about yours.

hart44

Hi Pootle, nice to know you are still around hope everything is going well for you.

jcr, I used 2oz wadding for my quilts, it is very thin and ideal for your table runner

I love your coasters Kandi :T

I think I will try applique, not done that yet I love how it finishes your zip bag Sarah

No sewing for me again today (work again lol) but I have found a great project to do for my DIL for the baby that I will do this wkend Im so excited I want to do it now :rotfl:

Mrs_Toast

Morning everyone, I love everybody's work, I'm so jealous. I may be using some of my old jeans as it looks really good in patchwork and would recycle too :T

Well I finally used my sewing machine that I've had for about a year :rotfl:. My DH even used it before me to make a patchwork quilt for the sofa lol! I decided to make a new cover for a nursing pillow I have to give to my DSis. As it's a V shape I decided to copy the original cover and make it out of 3 pieces. The thing was that I cut one of the half back pieces upside down so I couldn't use it. So at 11pm last night I was pinning out a new piece :rotfl:. At least I didn't sew it together and then realise.

Anyway I did sew the two other pieces together and when I turned it over it looked brilliant. I'm so proud of myself. Now all I need to do it cut out and sew the last piece and then sew some giant purple buttons for decoration which I'm getting today. I'm hoping to have it finished for the weekend and I can't wait to see Dsis's face.

I've also got a fair bit of fabric left as I bought a metre so any ideas for using the scraps would be good. My Dsis does like sewing and knitting as well so I was thinking of a pin cushion. Also I've seen a door hanger to cross stitch so I was thinking of backing it with this fabric. Let's just see what this cushion cover turns out like first :rotfl:

jcr16

excellent thankyou hart. i've just bought a couple of meters of the 2oz padding. know in my head how to do what i want but looking forward to having a play. i've made up the patchwork design runner and sewed it all last night. it looks fantastic. i'm so chuffed. i'm waiting to see if i win some material on ebay for the backing. but can't wait till it all finished.

jasmine_lotus_flower

Always on Martins site but found these threads by chance. I have made my own clothes for 50 years on and off, [now 59] as well as my childrens clothes.
I worked my way back to page 129 and will continue later. Could you i have a link for the door stop please as i would like a go at making it. Joined some-ones blob and hope to make friends on their can't remember whose. Flat on back at the moment, as i bent down and back gave way, third time since Xmas, oh the joys of being old. Be a day or so getting up and about, so having to balance computer on my chest at a very parculiar anle so please excuse spelling.
This site is brilliant.

Wee_Jo

PootleFlump wrote: »

Hi Everyone

Realise Im now a bit of a stranger to this thread these days as I havent been very proactive with my sewing recently!! Just wanted to say Hi and let you know am still reading all your posts and looking at all your amazing stuff!! Anyway, sure Ill get back into it before too long and in the meantime hope you are all well. Loving all the photos and new inspirational ideas. Will hopefully get time to get back to my sewing machine once things settle down a bit at home. Take care all. xx

Hi Pootleflump :wave:

I'm new here, but hopefully you will get back into sewing and posting on here soon, because your username makes me smile so much!! I love it :j

Jo

Wee_Jo

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

I once bought some material from an online store, either remnant house or croft mill. It was a two tone fabric with a sparkly effect that was a suitable weight for trousers/skirts etc. I paid a maximum of £4 a metre for it and later on saw the same fabric which was identical apart from the colour in John Lewis for about £13 a metre.

I save a huge amount of money by buying my fabric online. I rarely buy fabric any other way now.

There are certainly some bargains to be had by buying online but the downside is you can't see colours or handle the fabric first. The places that will send small samples are good. Remnant house is one company that will send small samlpes if you ask for them.

http://www.remnanthouse.co.uk/

Thank you for this! The fabrics look so beautiful. Step away from the debit card, Jo - must learn to sew first!!!! :mad:

Tete_en_l'Air

Hello Ladies, just a quickie - work has been so busy I haven't been able to keep up with anything! Any news on the fabric swap? I have 10th June in my head for some reason ... don't want to miss it! Hope Everyone's well, my sewing has mainly consisted of getting my samples finished for my folder as my dressmaking course has just finished and it all needs handing in. I have got started on a maxi dress though ...

almond

jasmine_lotus_flower wrote: »

Always on Martins site but found these threads by chance. I have made my own clothes for 50 years on and off, [now 59] as well as my childrens clothes.
I worked my way back to page 129 and will continue later. Could you i have a link for the door stop please as i would like a go at making it. Joined some-ones blob and hope to make friends on their can't remember whose. Flat on back at the moment, as i bent down and back gave way, third time since Xmas, oh the joys of being old. Be a day or so getting up and about, so having to balance computer on my chest at a very parculiar anle so please excuse spelling.
This site is brilliant.

have tried to find the patterns for you but can't find the one i make here are the other two

http://bakeandsew.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/pyramid-doorstop-tutorial/
http://www.dreamhomedecorating.com/free-homemade-gift-ideas.html

dizzytina

Morning all hope you are all ok. Ordered some fabric from this site www.fivevalleysdesigns.com two days ago and it is here already. They have 40% off as i think they are closing down. There are some lovely fabrics so worth a look.

Just made a scented england heart. i have put a pic on my blog here http://scratchycatcrafter.blogspot.com/2010/06/come-on-england.html if anyone wants a peek.