Pants for my wee man

I feel a wee bit sorry for Ryan, there is hundreds of lovely cute girls patterns for everything, boys not so much. To me a lot of the patterns are very similar and not a whole lot of variety. I do try very hard to make sure he gets his fair share of sewing, a lot of it is the same old stuff over and over again. So far he hasn't noticed this and is just happy to get something new. So this morning I made him a new pair of pants. He picked out this fabric ages ago from Spotlight when he was going through his soldier stage. Then he didn't like it because it wasn't all green and just recently he likes it again, so striking while the iron is hot I made these. It is the good old, well used, Burda 9641. I have made these so so many times and I quite like it. 4 year old boys love pockets for treasures and these have great pockets, plus you can put many many more on. The fabric is a drill, so hopefully be hard wearing as he is starting to wear out his knees, I think the sand pit is becoming a firm favourite at kindy.

Been a productive morning as I have also made a new batch of cheese. I managed to get 6 rounds this time, which is brilliant as I usually get 4 and a bit. So very pleased. No idea why I got more this time, made it exactly the same as all the others, but certainly not complaining!

Oh and the birthday present was well received!

Tx

Another party

We are in the first weekend of our 5 parties in a row. Ryan's friends are all hitting the 5. His is in the middle. So of course since they all are in kindy at the same age and our coffee groups is one that is still going strong, we have a whole bunch in August/September.

Since this year I am all about home made gifts I made another home made gift for this party. Finished 5 mins ago and the party is at ten, some might say last minute, others would say perfect time management :).I used this pattern, I found it randomly in a fabric shop a couple of years back. I have made Adele one, and the wee girl I have made the new one for always plays with Adele when she comes round to play. So I thought it would be the perfect gift. Even better I had every thing in my stash. EVERYTHING, the batting, trim, and fleece. I was pleased and free gift, well sort of!

Without the mattress.

And with the mattress. The family live in a restored villa, so I thought the fabrics would suit them/her perfectly. It is Poddle by Jennifer Paganelli and I brought it from Sew Pretty, she is on Facebook and has a website. Adele has been eyeing this up all morning, I hope she is still happy with her one.

Unfortunately that is all on the crafting front. It has been the first week back at kindy so all of our family has been a little tired. I feel I could sleep for a super long time! I still have to find fabric for my Crafty Crap sew along, it is the Boho Fringed bag by Amy Butler, I think I am a little uninspired because I don't really like it. I am sure once I have done it I will love it but...

Right time to get these kids dressed and myself through the shower!

Tx

Next block

So here is the next block in my quilt along. I have three of these to make, so far I have just done this one. I quite like it. I got all excited because I thought I could sew some of the rows together, only to find that I must have cut the other blocks in this row a bit smaller, or sewn a bit of a larger seam as the other block is a bit smaller, so much so that I am planning to put a nice white boarder around the blocks. Maybe I did a little of both. It will add flavour!
It is starting to come together rather nicely.

I brought a new book. I had seen it on a few blogs and I really wanted to have a look inside. So glad I did. Very inspiring and now of course I have another 10 quilts I would love to make. Because I just have so much time, all the time in the world!!!!! I think there is one I will make for sure and the rest are great for motivation. I read a sewing book and then the next day all I want to do it finish projects. Surely that has to be money well spent.
A few twists on traditional ideas and how to achieve them. Of course now I want to join a quilting bee.

I need more time!!!!!!!!

Tx

On a hoodie roll

Close on the heels of Blair asking for a hoodie, my wee fashion designer so wanted one too. So he wanted green, a pretty easy brief really. So when we went fabric shopping a while back I had to do some delicate green pointing. He found the brightest, greenest most loud fabric I think has even been made. Of course I would have made it out of that, but I showed him a few options, still it was going to be the super green and just as I was taking it off the shelf he had a change of mind and picked this one instead. Relief!!!! It is the standard, younger type of Blair's one. This time I didn't put on the half sleeve, so just a long sleeve hoodie. I quite like it like this too. The fabric is a 52% merino and 48% polyprop. Which is a great fabric for warmth too and about a third of the cost, so quite like that as well.

See a good choice, a very handsome young man!

Tx

My very special custom order

I have been making quite a few of these merino hoodies of late. So Blair ask when he was getting one. It was the first time he asked for something, well anything for me to make for him. Obviously I was rather excited about the prospect of this. I had visions of black with red or blue. But my darling husband want black and dark grey. Completely rock and roll!So I used Burda pattern 7916. It is a "young fashion" pattern, really though it is for us oldies too. It is the exact same pattern as the kids hoodie. And it really is super duper easy. AND it looks so cool and funky it really is one of those items that really does look quite professional. I really love it. I have two lady sizes in my size ready to be made up and I just think I might be keeping one and adding one to my "shop".

I feel like I have been making a bit of progress in getting some WIP finished, it feels rather satisfying. There is always so much I would love to be able to make and do.

Right time to start packing.

Tx

Finished!!

I have been enjoying simple things these last few days, sprinkle covered cupcakes and home made cheese. It really has been rather nice. I had friends over this weekend so busy crafty activities were on hold. So it really was a nice break and has recharged my batteries. So today I just had to sew! I finally, finally finished Ryan's quilt, well the top. So over the next few days will head over to my favourite quilting shop and have them put it together.

I am so pleased with how it looks, still not sure on the binding, I have some plain brown which I think would look great. I have a few weeks to decide.

I also made Blair a merino hoodie today, it looks very smart. Will post more about that tomorrow.

We are having a night away and I can't quite choose between taking my sewing machine or a bottle of wine. I really would like to make a dent in the quilt I am making for our bed, but I do like a wine. But I have have put on just so much weight lately and at some point I have to do something about it! Plus I want to make Ryan some pants, the dilemma!! Oh and I need to make him a top too... Best get to it then ;)

Tx

Busy!!!!!

Gosh I have been so busy. Kids are on school holidays so we have been doing heaps of fun stuff, plus the weather has become so cold I have had a whole bunch of orders of merino goodies, which of course is awesome. Tricky trying to fit everything in and give the kids some good attention!

We took the kids of a boating picnic over the weekend. Even though it was cold, the weather has lovely and the lake was like glass. So we all piled in, when for a cruise and has a picnic on the river banks. Pretty simple but the kids loved it. Well to be fair I think they loved having both Blair and I uninterrupted, no phones, computers or distractions. And it really was fun. We were pirates, of course and I just really loved the day. I have no photos, they are all on Blairs phone.

We have been having a bunch of play dates too. Ryan has a few kindy friends which get on great with our family and little Adele just idolises them, she wants to be in on all the action too. Poor lass, sometime they will play with her and sometime they wont. She looks so heart broken when they tell her to go away. But yesterday we had coffee group at her best friends house. So her and Henry had a great time. She will randomly come up and tell me Henry is her best friend and she loves him. It really is just so cute. Both of them are really lovely with each other, he will hold doors open for her and share his cupcakes and she gives him big cuddles all the time.

Right best get back to "work", I got orders for 6 items yesterday, two done, one half done, so only three to go. Plus I had made some for my "shop" and I kept them for myself, I just needed stripey leggings!!! Plus Blair and Ryan both want new tops, both of them look so disappointed when I take fabric out and start working on it when they know it isn't theirs. I tried to talk a friend into coming out to visit and maybe being my nanny so I could do some work, she said no...life is unfair!!!!!! ;)

Tx