The Sewing Room

MissPixie

Love the bag that fabric is really pretty

Look what I did! I am so proud of it even if it is a mess lol
http://misspixiecrafts.blogspot.com/

Tamster150

Lovely makes everyone:T

I haven't done any sewing for ages! The run of ill health that we have had since Christmas has continued... Since we have been on Easter hols DS1 (3yrs) had chicken pox, then DS2 (22mth) had to be taken to A&E with really bad croop and now he has the worst dose of chicken pox I have seen! The past 2 nights he has hardly slept as he is so sore & uncomfortable.

However, I finally started to quilt the last of my Nieces' quilts but it has been a real pita!

I saw a lovely quilt in Sew Hip magazine, that was quilted with waves, so thought I would give that a go - big mistake!
I spent ages searching online for a curved line template but couldn't find one anywhere. So I made one by drawing around a cup. Stitched a row but it was really difficult & needed lots of pivoting & turning etc, so I unpicked it & made a smaller wave. Did a few rows of the new curve, but they were messy and then when I was doing the last row, the machine kept skipping stitches. So as I was unpicking the last row, I decided to unpick ALL of the other rows too! So now I am back at square one:mad:

On a happier note, it is my birthday today:T:beer: and I have treated myself to these...

this is a simplicity pattern - half price in fabricland atm. There is a Lisette blog with a forum and a flikr group full of inspiration.


This one, I kept seeing in blogland & decided to buy, even though I am rather "full" of bust and the neckline is a bit higher than I usually go for, but there was a sew-a-long with lots of useful tips for altering the top to fit.


Now I just need to magic up a couple more hours in the day... or another day in the week lol!:rotfl:

Tamster150

MissPixie wrote: »

Love the bag that fabric is really pretty

Look what I did! I am so proud of it even if it is a mess lol
http://misspixieworks.blogspot.com/

That is lovely - well done!

Keiss_21

Lovely work hmo, hart44 and MissPixie...so beautiful, well done all of you :T:T

I still haven't done any sewing this week...been busy at work and with lots of other things.

I really want to give myself plenty of time to quilt my potholder, then have a play with some lining material and have a go at some free-stitching quilting designs...can't wait!! I do need to make a little bag though for my friend whose birthday is next week, so I have to get a move on with that! I have some lovely celtic designs in cotton as well as some furnishing-weight material with a Rennie-Mackintosh-like design on it. Still trying to decide what to use and therefore what to make. Decisions, decisions!

Right off to collapse for a bit before going to bed...it's been a long week, and I am shattered!

Have a great Easter all...whether you are stitching or not.

Savvy_sewing

I have done a little more to my new sewing/crafting room this evening, but not as much as I would like. too sore from moving the bigger furniture yesterday.
I am off to bed now. But going to put the overlocker up in there as I go. That will be both the main machines upstairs, and then I will take up the clutter from the dining table in the morning. Giving us back a table downstairs. But I will need to find myself another sewing chair eventually as I only have two dining chairs. (Lack of room, but there is now only two of us so we will be able to sit at the table to eat. Instead of DGD sitting at a coffee table with her little chair, and me with a laptray!.).
I am determind to have my work space sorted out by the end of the easter holidays so when DGD goes to nursery I can concentrate on sewing again. But as i probably will be away with BF part of the weekend, I need to get my skates on.

Keiss_21

:j:j:jHappy Birthday Tamster!!! :j:j:j

:bdaycake:

hart44

Belated Birthday Wishes Tamster I hope your little ones are felling a bit better today, chicken pox is not nice, my son got it when he was 8yrs .
Mooloo sounds like you will have fun when you get your craft room done provided you don't push yourself too hard just take it steady
(listen to me Im exactly the same :rotfl:)

MissPixie :DI love your embroidery :T

Savvy_sewing

Have gentle plans today. Both machines are now in the new room. Today its gather up the stuff around my sitting room and take it up. Regain the sitttingroom/dining table. There is a table in the new room, I had in my kitchen in the old house, and DS used to have his TV etc on. I am aiming to use it as my cutting out table. Hopefully I will be able to centre it in the room, so that I can actually walk around it, but it really is a bit low for that, (thinking of my back). I may invest in some longer legs for it. I believe it was an Ikea table. But I dont fancy Ikea on my own, with DGD, at a bank holiday. So I will hang on till the dust settles.! Meanwhile my cutting board, and my slice machine can live on it/near it.
I can see the room being very cluttered soon. I have fabrics everywhere I am looking at the moment.!

rufusdog52

Loving all the makes, Tamster - hope your family are a bit better today xx. Mooloo, bet you cant wait for your craft room to get sorted. I love it up in mine, cant imagine how I ever managed to sew downstairs at the dining room table now.

Have got a bit done on my Dad's quilt. Everyone in the family is sending me a 4 inch square of paper with a message on it for him and I am tracing them onto white cotton and embroidering over the messages. Then making them into a block so everyone has a block each. I am doing 6 small squares and one strip for each block having the message as the centre square in each block. I made a plan on the computer yesterday so I knew where everything was going so now as I get a message come through I can get on and make that block up. Will take a pic of things as it goes along and put it on my blog (will take my camera up in a bit and load it all up).

Also have managed to get some more denim squares cut out. The only denim I have left though is from black and grey jeans so going to be very dark, will have to lighten it up a bit with other fabrics.

hmo

MissPixie wrote: »

Love the bag that fabric is really pretty

Look what I did! I am so proud of it even if it is a mess lol
http://misspixieworks.blogspot.com/

you did a great job you should be proud, well done