Apron

This year I made aprons for my Mum and my Gran for Christmas, unfortunately I was slightly useless at taking photos of my makes this year, so I will have to add a picture of my Gran's apron at a later date.

There's even a pocket on there, but you can't see it because I matched it up so perfectly in a bit of an OCD moment.

It also has a little "hand made" label inside, which again, I forgot to take a picture of.... but made with my embroidery machine from the "made with love" pack of designs at Urban Threads.

Christmas Cards

This year's Christmas cards, made with a couple of new paper punches - I'm loving the reindeer - even more so for the fact that I got it for just £1!

Unfortunately I don't own an old type writer, I downloaded the font free from the internet.

 

 

Christmas Cakes

Ok so I didn't quite make a proper Christmas cake, I made cupcakes and a sponge cake... but fruit cake fans are somewhat outnumbered by the Victoria sponge fans in my house anyway. So here they are...

 

Yes, there is a cake missing in the bottom left corner. Yes, I ate it, before I even took a photo.

Little Retro Reindeer

Everyone loves a retro reindeer. I think I may end up having to make a few more of these before Christmas comes around!

 

I have to admit this isn't my pattern - this one came from Patchlins on Etsy, but I thought it was rather cute and I definitely wouldn't be able to come up with a pattern in time for Christmas!

Guess what everyone will be getting for Christmas this year?!

 

I have been busy making a few other things, but I will have to wait until after Christmas to post them up...

Pin Cushions

A couple of pin cushions I made while having a crafting day with a friend.

The bucket one was super simple but I think it's pretty cute, and useful seeing as somehow despite the years I have been sewing I've never had a pin cushion.

The bucket comes from HobbyCraft, and then just a circle of fabric with running stitch round the edge to pull into a ball, stuffed and put into the bucket. Ta dah!

 

 

 

Baby-grow toys

This was a fun but slightly nerve wracking project!

Charlotte's Molly (who I made the advent calendar for) has finally grown out of her first baby grows, and Charlotte asked me if we could make some things out of them.

We started off  with these mini cushions for Molly's cot made out of a couple of tops that had applique patterns on.

Here is the scrummy Molly modelling one of the tops...

 

 

And here they are as mini cushions. They have her name and date of birth embroidered on the back but I don't have a photo of that.

Charlotte was rather proud of her efforts :-)

 

 

Then she left me with a bag full of clothes and a wish list. She wanted a special toy of some sort made from her favourite new born baby grows.

 

Now I'm not usually worried about cutting stuff up, it doesn't bother me to cut up old books and sheet music (despite my housemate's attempts to stop me), but my friend's FAVOURITE new born baby clothes...? Even I was nervous...

Here goes....

 

 

I chose a pattern from MyFunnyBuddy on Etsy to make things a little easier.

 

 

And here he is - finished! Charlotte definitely liked him, and if dribbling all over your face and biting your ears is a sign of affection, then Molly liked him too :-)

 

 

And I still have a bag of clothes to make some more stuff from - watch this space...



Rosette Cake

Oops... looks like I forgot to post anything for like 3 months... and now when I think about it I don't know that I've made much, despite it being the summer holidays. Best get on it! After all there's only 4 months until Christmas!

 

So for Father's day I made this rosette cake for my dad, as he is getting a rather large collection on the rosette display board, in fact it's completely full up!

 

I think it turned out pretty well in the end, although perhaps I ought to work on my handwriting skills for next year... I hear it tasted alright too :-)