The Sewing Room

23rdspiral

hello missgreentoad, sorry i can't help either. a shop i know, busybees, sells homemade felt made from blankets which is nice and thick, but probably not what you're thinking of.

today i made many little christmas presents... just little simple stocking fillers for some girly friends, my mum, future mum in law ect, would love to say and show you piccies, but i know one of them comes on here. tee hee, this is really teasing of me isnt it?!

PootleFlump_3

Hi mrs greetoad. We are always nice Welcome to the thread. Have you tried The Felt Fairy or Blooming Felt?

Bunny200

mrsgreentoad wrote: »

:ohello ladys first post here , so be nice lol does any one know where i can buy fat felt its really thick i saw it on a craft fair last week been looking but not found it as yet anyone can help please x

Try Blooming Felt they have 4mm thick felt which is hard to come by. I've been waiting for some ivory 4mm to come back into stock which this reminded me to check, so make sure you don't order it all before I do!

danemi1

craftygranny wrote: »

Some of the tilda books are on sale here and you only pay half the price shown it deducts 50% when you add them to your basket . I just bought 5 including Martha stewarts encyclopaedia of sewing and 3 tilda books and another book for less than 17.00 and it gave me free postage. Offer ends 10am on thursday 9th dec. Thought it might help some of you for xmas . Mine are from my oh as he had no ideas what to get.

with the 50% off

Bag making bible is £3.74

Tildas xmas ideas is £2.61

Crafting tildas friends is 2.27

Tildas summer ideas is £2.61

and they have quite a few others

Oh heck I am gutted - I have been so ill this week with this ruddy flu - havent been on much and then just clicked on the grabbits for any last minute pressies for the kids - just popped on here tonight and saw this - thought oooh oooooh awwwwww heck when I saw I had missed the date - drat but thank you so much as it would have been fantabulous - will keep having a peep at that site now - thanks again hun xxxxxxxx Enjoy your reading xxx

jcr16

i'm really struggling to keep inspired to finish my patchwork quilt. i love it , and i enjoy doing it. but it is sooooo big it is really awkward now. I wish we didn't have such a big 4 seater sofa. but i am trying to stay positive that it will look gorgeous when done. but i am NEVER making one this big again!!!!!!!!,lol.

Next project is a smaller baby patchwork quilt. for babe to lay on when playing on the floor etc. we have so many babies due or been born recently in our family. if they turn out nice, that should keep me out of mischief for a while,lol.

danemi1

hard work but by golly it will be so worth it hun - keep going - eye on the prize love - meant to be trying to be encouraging here but I can only try and imagine - it must be like climbing mount everest but just think what it will be like the higher up you climb and you turn back to see how much you have done - good luck sweetheart x

jcr16

i get where your coming from hun. ANd yes i can't wait till it finished as i know it will be fab. the last one i did was so much smaller and it really didn't take long. but yes eyes on the prize. i'm determined to have it finished by xmas so it can grace our sofa.

already started looking at more fabric for the next one,lol.

danemi1

by christmas...this year??? wow - when did you start it???

VintageBrat

pennib wrote: »

Sandy2 have you thought about whitework? Maybe that will bring up something on google?

Here is a sewing/painting picture that I've just finished, really enjoyed making it. The paper is almost like a soft quilting fabric after it was stitched on. More pictures on how it was made up on me homepage. Piccy looks a bit squint but its not like that in real life!

Love this! How clever!

23rdspiral

i've tackled the Puppy Cushion again, i decided i would not be defeated. Thanks Mags!

i'm really quite pleased with myself - after failing to make a successful-enough friendship star quilt block i nearly gave up, but yesterday i perseverd and now have 2! i was on a roll and somehow tackled drawing applique pieces by hand from a too small pattern sheet . Then i did all the backgrounds and machine embroidered on the largest applique piece! :j Soo, this means all i have to do is hand applique some shapes and turn it into a cushion and i'll hopefully do that in time for xmas for my fiance.:)

damni1 - ditto! i'm gutted as that would have been nice for me and my mum. oh well.

jcr16 - keep going girl! nearly there! :T