Christmas crafting

 

Hi guys,

 

Thank you for all the good wishes for my interviews :0)

 

The other day one of the people who work with my mum gave her a cool costume calendar to give to me as a present. It was so cool and had some beautiful pictures of period costumes in it, I can't wait to start using it in January :) As a thank you I made her two of my Christmas tree decorations (pattern can be found on the free pattern page at the top of the blog! :-):

 

 

My mum said she really liked them and left them on her desk all day and kept telling people I had made them! Hehehe, that made me smile :)

 

Another gift I made was this pincushion for my sewing teacher as it was the last class last Wednesday (sorry for the picture I took it just before I went to the evening class so it was a bit dark in my room):

 

I was pleased with how it came out, I went for a super-christmassy theme! My teacher thought it was sweet so I was very happy as I was a bit unsure about giving her a pincushion as I thought she might have hundreds of them already :P

 

I'm almost done for my preparations for Christmas and tomorrow I break up for the holidays so I should then have time to finish off the last little bits.

 

I hope you are having a lovely week and are looking forward to Christmas as much as I am lol! :D 

 

See you all soon,

 

Byeeeeee XXXxxxXXXxxx

Flower headbands

Hey guys,

Everything is still hectic here, (as I am sure it is for many of you now we have reached this festive season :). However the other day I did maange to catch 5 minuites for myself and I made these little flower headbands for my little cousing and two second cousins (who are all under 5 :0)

I was very pleased because they all liked them and I go lots of lovely hugs! :-) Hehe they ended up wearing them as belts though :P

I have another university interview tommorrow so I am once again very excited! :D

See you all soon,

I hope you have a lovely week :)

Byeeee XXX

Busy bee!

Hi everyone :D

Sorry there has been a bit more of a delay between posts than usual, it is because I have been very busy making the last preparations on my portolio for my uni interviews!!!!! :D My first one is on tuesday, I am sooo excited!!! I can't wait!!!  :-)

I have also been busy sorting out Christmas stuff too now we have made it to december.

But I assure you normal posting will resume soon :)

I hope you all had a lovely weekend,

See you soon,

Byeeeeeeeeeeee!

Trouser progress

Hi,

 

A post or so ago I mentioned the vintage fabric and pattern I picked up when I was on holiday, today I thought I would show you my work in progress :D......

 

 

I just have to add the waistband and zip now, which I will probably do over the next few days. I should be finished by Sunday and then I can start wearing my creation :0)

 

Doing the sewing course I go to on Wednesday evenings has really helped make using the commercial patterns a lot easier. I learn how to read darts from a commercial pattern and then we practised them so doing them on the trousers was easy :)

 

I can't wait to wear them somewhere!!!!!! :D

 

See you all soon,

 

Bye xXx

2nd Advent Giveaway Winner!!!

Hi everyone!

Entries are now closed and the time has come for the winner of the Advent calendar giveaway to be

announced! :D

 

Dramatic drumroll (lol :P).............

.......The winner as chosen by the random number generator is....

 

KNITTOTHEEND!

Image from: here!

 

Congratulations!!!!!!! :0)

I have messaged you via ravelry asking for your address so I can get your calendar gifts on their way to you ready for the 1st of December!

:-D

To all the other entries, don't worry if you didn't win this one as, of course :), there will be more giveaways and other cool stuff coming soon and I will be putting a picture up of all the things included in the calendar after the 24th of December, like last year, So you won't have to live without knowing what was in all the little parcels :P

See you all soon and congratulations again to Knittotheend! :0)

 

 

Byeeee xxx

 

 

Vintage sewing patterns and fabric

Hi

 

I forgot to mention in my holiday posts that when I was in an antique style shop I found a whole box of vintage sewing patterns :) I got sew excited (lol :P) because they were all only about 90p each and some of the garments looked so pretty! I picked up my 3 favourite ones and then later in a vintage themed craft shop I found a neatly tied up bundle with a vinatge bedspread and pillow cases in it- for only £10! It had a pretty flower pattern on it and I thought it would be great for making up some of the patterns in:

 

I think I am going to get started on the trouser and top set tommorrow, Yay! Then I will have a cool vintage outfit to wear :-)

 



I hope you all had a lovely weekend :o)

See you soon,

Byeeeee XXXX

***The 2nd Crafty Advent Calendar Giveaway!!!***

Hello everyone!

The time has finally come for the return of the Crafty Advent Calendar Giveaway!!!...

I am once again giving away to one person 24 festive crafty gifts to countdown to Christmas- a crafty advent calendar! :0D

Image from: here

I had tons of fun looking in all the craft shops for the different little festive themed gifts that can be added to/used in your Christmas craft projects :)
 

I hand wrapped each  one and added a number for the 24 days, here are all the little parcels o<:0 p="p">

 

 

You can put them all in a fancy bowl or a fill it yourself decorative calendar (those felt/stitched ones with pockets :) and then open the right one each day from the 1st to the 24th of December (like the choccy calendars) to get your little surprise!

 

Here is what was in the last crafty advent just to give you some idea (though I have bought some differeent stuff for this year of course :-)......

 

 

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Giveaway entries are open until the 16th of November and the winner will be randomly selected and announced on the same day!

The giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere! :)

HERE IS HOW TO ENTER:

To be entered you must:

> Be a follower

> And leave a comment below with some way to contact you in case you win! :)
(e.g ravelry name, blog or email address etc...)

 

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I hope you all like the giveaway, It was very fun arranging it!

See you soon

Bye xXxX