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Car Seat Cinema

I shop a lot on Zulily and saw these for sale and thought that they were a great idea. As we were going on holiday soon i decided to try and make my own. Well I could not get my head around it and how to stitch in the plastic, but it turned out ok.

This is my second attempt for a friend and is far better. I figured out how to incorporate the plastic and  zip, but I think the zip looks ugly and I plan to add velcro next time.

Little Ferns for My Little Ferns Christening

I love Pinterest and found these little wedding favour ideas that I thought I could use as table decorations and favours. the tables looked great and helped set off the gyp flowers i used in old vases.

My New Sewing Room

As we only have two bedrooms and now that room is Ferns room we both needed a hobby room. The only place was our very long garage, well my part of it. So this very 10x10 room had to have multi purposes.

1 - The first is to have a shelve under the window for my tropical plants over the winter.
2 - To hold the husbands DJ decks and his storage.
3 - The Desktop.
4 - My fabric stash and a collapsable table for cutting and sewing.

This is my recycled book shelf that I think is Ikea. I sourced the 100 year okd sewing machine off ebay for £1.50 and used wallpaper samples to cover the back of each shelf.

I this pic you get the idea of how crammed it it.

This is my fold away table. It is rather large and we have put it quite high up so that i can stand and cut fabric out, but i do have to dew on the machine using a stool.

I had to make some bunting for the room to hide the pipes to the outside tap.

Baby Dutch Dress

After nearly 6 months of not sewing I was given some free time and wanted to make some baby dresses. After much research I settled on the Dutch Dress.

I brought a double duvet from Primark as i loved the patter and only used one pillow case to make this one.


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This one was made from some left over material from some shorts I made as part of my summer wardrobe challenge.

Crochet Christening Booties and Matching Shawl

So after my failed attempt of my first set of booties I thought I better take my tim over these. I did and soon realised that it was not working, so most of it, well all of it was crocheted from my own brain. I was blinking hard, but when I finished both, I realised that again I was working the wrong way round, but they both looked the same and I stitched on some real peals. I was just a shame that n the day they were too heavy and kept falling off.

The Baby shawl was made only a few days before the Christening when the vicar asked what I had planned. It took 6 hours using my first C2C and scallop edging. I finished it off by using the last of my pearls.

Mickey Mouse Booties - Massive Fail !

I tHink I stated to get a little cocky with my new talent and decided to make Fern some booties for her Christening that was rater soon, but thought best to have a trail run first, so I made the mother to be again some mickey mouse booties.

The top picture is what it should look like and the below is how they turned out like. So I was quite disappointed and asked my facebook crochet group what they thought I should do. They suggested that I turn them inside out.

No, They still look crap!