The Sewing Room

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meggielo wrote: »

Lol join the club of women addicted to sewing:D

Tomorrow I have two sock monkeys to start, two embroidered bookmarks to make and two machine embroidered 'Home Sweet Home' samplers to do and frame for Xmas presents.

Yesterday I made four more personalised bookmarks for my Dad, Mum (patricia) and two for my MIL (Anastasia).



I also made a sock monkey for my daughter out of a pair of her old tights LOL. I'm just about to put a photo of it on my blog for anyone that is interested in seeing it;)

Lovely bookmarks. Do you hand embroider the names or do you do it by machine? Looks brilliant!

meggielo

Thank you all for your comments. No the bookmarks are not hand embroidered 'shudder' LOL. They are all done on my sewing machine. I don't 'do' hand sewing unless I have to. Believe me if I can work out a way to make sock monkeys on the machine instead of by hand that's how they will be made:D

I have to admit though that as the sock monkeys come to life it does make the task of hand sewing more enjoyable. The monkey I made with tights looked frightful until she got her nose and ears on then my daughter could see if coming to life. I have to make a tutu fo it today out of a pair of her old blingy pink dressing up shorts.

I am really struggling at the moment to find cheap pillows or cushions for stuffing. Think Tesco or Asda may be the best place, there is certainly nothing in town.

JAYk_2

[more approriate section] How do you make a bag/purse/wallet stand upright (as opposed to a flat one); are there are video/written tutorials on that? Thanks to those who know

Tamster150

meggielo wrote: »

Thank you all for your comments. No the bookmarks are not hand embroidered 'shudder' LOL. They are all done on my sewing machine. I don't 'do' hand sewing unless I have to. Believe me if I can work out a way to make sock monkeys on the machine instead of by hand that's how they will be made:D

I have to admit though that as the sock monkeys come to life it does make the task of hand sewing more enjoyable. The monkey I made with tights looked frightful until she got her nose and ears on then my daughter could see if coming to life. I have to make a tutu fo it today out of a pair of her old blingy pink dressing up shorts.

I am really struggling at the moment to find cheap pillows or cushions for stuffing. Think Tesco or Asda may be the best place, there is certainly nothing in town.

I did my (unfinished) sock monkey by machine, one of the tutorials I found suggested that you machine sew the tail on so I figured that I could do the same for the arms & ears. I made the body and stuffed the legs, I turned the body inside out, made & stuffed the arms & tail, cut a tiny hole where I wanted the arms/tail to go, put the arms inside the body, put the top of the arm through the hole and stitched over the arm & hole a few times. seems pretty secure. Does that make any sense???

I just have to handstitch the crotch and face (hence the monkey still being a UFO lol!)

cuddles123

JAYk wrote: »

[more approriate section] How do you make a bag/purse/wallet stand upright (as opposed to a flat one); are there are video/written tutorials on that? Thanks to those who know

Try here

http://craftydaisies.com/2007/08/24/how-to-square-bags/

23rdspiral

meggielo wrote: »

I am really struggling at the moment to find cheap pillows or cushions for stuffing. Think Tesco or Asda may be the best place, there is certainly nothing in town.

i've used poundland cushions and wilkinson's cushion inscerts to take appart for the stuffing. i prefered wilkinsons for the better texture just like real wadding.

pennib

Lovely bookmarks meggielo. Wonderful idea for using up smaller pieces of material.

23rdspiral

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Tamster150

23rdspiral wrote: »

EVERYONE - have you seen the Important link at the top of the page? do go read it, its about spam email from someone that's hacked MSE towers. i read it then opened my email to find i had one lurking there. what a bad business. i dont blame MSE though.

no I hadnt - thanks off to check now

pennib

Thanks for that 23rdspiral, it was such big writing I didn't see it:o

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