First Stall and I made a skirt :)

My first Newton Rose stall took place on Sunday! Amazingly it was a REALLY sunny day and although I got a little sunburnt, I had a really nice day! And made a bit of money too :P I didn't take many good pictures on the day but this was my 'test stall' I did in the living room the day before :)





I've also been planning on copying a dress I saw in Topshop the other week that was REALLY nice but just completely the wrong proportions on me! It involves an elastic waistband so, since I've never sewn with elastic before, I thought it might be a good idea to try a skirt first! I'm SO pleased with the result:

New Material and a start on a quilt...

I went shopping yesterday to find some nice baby blanket material. For other projects I generally use a lot of offcuts and try to recycle old material where I can but baby blankets definitely need some good, NEW material :)



I've also made a start on a 'colour wheel' quilt which I saw in one of my many books! It requires 52 different material pieces to eventually form a wheel shape, I don't quite have 52 but I've made a start :P

Birds!!!!!!!!

Over the years I have seen SOOO many material birds in different books and shops!
So I decided to give it a go for my friend's birthday!
I scraped together lots of fabric and set about making them, there were some difficult decisions - should I add eyes or not??? - how far up should the wings be?? - how exactly does one get stuffing into the beak???
But I got there in the end :P

Since then I've made LOTS, matching the fabrics together and finding new combinations really is the best bit :)

I made particular effort to be arty with this picture: