Pretty mess

Yes as i am sewing like a mad thing ok well except today as i feel crappy but i shall have to go do some sewing tonight !
So while i pootle along sewing pretty things if i do say so myself ;0) i have noticed i have made some pretty piles of mess so i thought i would share them with you as nothing else much has happened here apart from sewing .. oooooh the excitement of the life of a wahm !!


No but really sometimes people say to me your soooo lucky to be a stay at home mum oh and i get called a lady of leisure too ... my arse is this leisurely !!
Cooking , cleaning ok not so much of that but there's washing and folding the odd bit of ironing and chucked in there is some swimming , baking cakes and
if i am a good girl there's sewing yay !!


So yes i am lucky and i do know it too , sorry that reads a bit arsey !! What i mean is yes being a wahm is great but i do work hard as well ... sorry just nipped off and baked 24 cupcakes and cooked rhubarb for tea tomorrow ... mean while back at the castle life goes on as normal !



Just a little bit added on here ... i have to say that my life is quite laid back ! I do have to work as the only wage earner in the family but my house is not as tidy as maybe it could be as you may have guessed from my previous post !!
I don't want you to think i am having a moan here its just my daily or should i say twice weekly
ramblings with a bit of a look at wahmhood !!

Sara x

Problems

Hi everyone i am having a few problems getting into my website emails as the bliddy kidlets have broke my puter and i am having to use DP's sparkly laptop oh the misery !! No actually its a problem as all my settings are on it and i am having a few problems getting Mr site to work on the laptop !!

So if you need to contact me about anything on the website please use my bloggy email addy !!
This also means i cannot get the things done i had wanted to on my website .... so much for a bit of a rest eh !!!!!

Have a great weekend peeps i am going to try and chillout for a couple of days x

Tutorial

so here we go firstly you will need

1. some felt
2. pretty lining fabric for the inside of your pouch
3. a strip of fabric to make the loop
4. a couple of buttons
5. thread
6. tracing / pattern paper
7. tape measure or ruler

so first of all i make up my pattern


you can make it any size you like .. mine is 11cms across by 12cms down
next we make the loop
cut a strip 3.5cms wide by 14cms long

fold in each end like so

next fold the strip in half

then fold this in again

now iron and stitch so it looks like this


put this to one side for later ..


when you have drawn your pattern you need to pin it to your felt
you need to cut 2 of these for the pouch outer
then cut 2 out of your lining fabric !!


Next give them a quick iron
(only one in the photo i didn't think you would need to see all four pieces after they had been ironed )

If you want to add some applique or embroidery or whatever to decorate your pouch
this is the time


i have appliqued a little bird that Kitty drew a while ago
(yes i do keep everything)
and i have free machined Kitty's name
i will do a simple applique tutorial next week if you like ?

You can of course decorate your pouch anyway you like !!!!

Now you can start to make up the pouch


put one piece of fabric and one piece of felt right sides together like so and pin


this makes one side now do the same with the other piece of fabric and felt
pin
stitch these together like so



now open out and iron out the seams


next you need to put both sides together with right sides on the inside



match up the seams like so



match up all the way around and pin



then when you are happy sew this up leaving a gap for turning
this should be on the lining piece

i sew from here all the way around to here

now the fun bit turn your pouch through
do this slowly and carefully
pushing out the sides as your go along


there you go a pouch
now iron the more time you spend ironing at the stage the nicer the finish
now stitch up the turning gap and snip the threads


turn the lining into the pouch and iron again


you can top stitch if you want
just take your time an go really slowly
just sew a little way in from the top all the way around


now you add the loop we made at the start
now measure up on your pouch where you want the loop to go
and stitch on like so


add a button to the front and away you go

now i know this seems to go on a bit but i wanted it to be clear so if you have not done any or only a little sewing before you can do this ... honest x

If you like this tutorial please leave me a comment and let me know and let others now too .. pass it on by all means !!
if you get stuck and need help please just ask me !


I would love to see photo's as well


If you would rather skip the making section you can go to my website
to find some i have made already !!

2008 Happy New Year

2008

Originally uploaded by kitty.eden

inspired by all the lovely photo's in blogland

Did someone say bee

Thats a bit of a coincidence because guess what i did last night

This is Kitty's bee
she got all inspired to draw
a bee as Chrissy has been taking some great shots of bees in our back garden !!

I had specific instructions on the colour scheme
and " mummy you must use some of that pretty pink and orange flower fabric "
After i had stopped sulking ...
you see the pink and orange fabric is a little piece of vintage fabric
that i love and dont want to think about what i will do when it runs out !!

This bee took me most of the evening to cut out and bondaweb
and i still have to sew it yet .... i did cut out some other things as well
as write the weekly list of jobs and a little chocolate eating !!

This tree was another thing ... this one is going on a mini picture im making

and this odd looking thing will be a caravan

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sorry the photos are a bit blurry its dark here and the lights very poor !!

My new car ..

heres my funky little car !!!

I have taken this design from some of the cards i used to make !!

I was having a tidy up and i found some of my cards samples
and realised that they would look just as good on purses etc as they do on my cards !!

Kitty has been busy as well , she has drawn lots of great things for me to sew !!
I think its a good deal i pay her in Charlie and Lola magazines and she just keeps drawing
So we have said she is now head of design ;0)