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:

Busy making Badges!!

I've been a busy bee lately making lots of awesome badges :)

Buying opportunity!! (and labels)

I am now very much sure that I'll be at the 'Memorial Hall Summer Fete' in Tutshill!

The Fete will be held on August the 15th on the Rec in Tutshill and some of the proceeds will be going to the Memorial Hall fund.

I've started making a few bits and pieces to sell so if you're around and free you should come and check it out!!!! :)

ALSO - I've been working on my 'Newton Rose' labels lately and am pretty sure that keeping it simple is the best plan:

The American Museum in Britain

Today I went to 'The American Museum in Britain' in Bath with the 'Gwent Quilters'!



We had an awesome guided tour of the quilting rooms in the Museum which MAY have inspired me to give quilting a go...I really loved the Hawaiian quilt below so I'd like to do something a bit like that but on a MUCH smaller scale!! Maybe a place mat or something :P



I would also love to give patchwork quilting a go...

I shall post any attempts on here - it might be a while before I start though!

New Material!

I just got some awesome new fabric! At the moment I seem to be getting more and more fabric but not making too much... I should really sort that out!

Old things I've made

In the past I've pretty much entirely made things to give to people as gifts (or to keep myself!) I wish I had taken more photos at the time but I thought that I would post some of the few pictures I have :)







I made these hearts for my brother and my almost sister-in-law for christmas!








This is some of the most effort I've ever put into a present for someone... but... shes awesome so I guess she deserved it :)








I think this was the 4th baby blanket made and given by me and my mum :)










I also got looooooads of new fabric from a completely fabulous undisclosed source! I'm currently making lots of awesome crafty things from these prints!