Door Stop

If you read my other blogs you may know that I have just adopted another Shar Pei called Angus. Angus managed to shut him self in the bathroom this week for a few minutes, now even though the bathroom door doesn't shut properly and Beau was trying to get him out he did do some damage to his claws that we don't want to happen again, so I decided to make a door stop to keep the door open.

As it was last minute I had to get some material from the market, it was plaid! Now pattern matching is something that I am not very good at, so I decided not to even bother and went as far as making sure that i cut it all the same way. I did try to match up the bottom and top, but to my surpise it matched, take a look and tell me what you think.

This is my original door stop that I brought from ebay and measured 

it so I had a pattern.

This is the one I made

This is the bottom, not as well pattern matched or as tidy but looks ok.

This is the handle and even though i know it should be black so it

looks more plaid its still ok.

                       Side                                                                               Seam.

Baby Bunting

My Nephew in laws girl friend has just given birth to a baby girl called Poppy so I decided to be a little different in the usually baby gifts and make her some Bunting. It took about 4 hours but that's only as i tried really hard not to cock it up.

All the triangle are double sided with 3 different baby buttons at each top corner to finish it off.

This I found tricky, the letter were cut from felt and then stitched using my Singer 201, No problems other than going round the corner, so there are a few cock up, but other than that not a bad job for my first attempt.

After I finished I put it on my wall to see how it looked with just the bias binding, it looked awful, unfinished and just not very proffessional. So I decided to make a bow, and the fact the one side is longer than the other was accidental, I just cut and sewed the material and when constructing the bow to see how much to cut off one bit was longer than the other, but it looked better and I think finishes it off.