Recent creations

Where to start?

OK, here is the picture of my very messy work desk with my purchases from Sandown. The lovely Japanese book has been a great source of inspiration and I have made a few brooches already and I think I may take a little handful of fabric with me when I go on holidays to make lots more, they are a bit time consuming but hey, they look great. I was in Muji yesterday and got a little tape measure and there is a picture in the book for making a fold 'n flip patchwork pig and the tape measure is inside and when you pull its tail...........
Oh and somewhere on a blog I saw a picture from some other Japanese mag for a wire bird cage thing which looked lovely, so I made a couple of those to hang around the house, they're very cute.
And I made a new bag and this is the proto-type, I am going to make another sample and am currently doing the pattern for it so it will be joining the Country Girl Pattern range soon.
I'm so pleased with it. I wanted a really big, stuff it all in type of bag, you know the sort that will hold a cardigan or two on holidays as well as the sun cream and all the important things you have to drag around, and so it needed to be really strong to hold a fair weight etc etc and so I have made it with as much strength in the handles as I could and last week I took it out for a trial run (we went camping in St Ives with my brother) and the bag was excellent. It was stuffed full and still kept its shape and held everything beautifully.

My friend is expecting her first child in Sept and I bought a piece of minky fabric and am going to put together a little quilt using this as the backing, so that's on the agenda for this week.
Minky is lovely isn't it,,,,, I had heard about it but it's only when you pick it up and have a feel that you ACTUALLY feel how lovely and soft it is. I'm very impressed if not a little late on that particular band-wagon!!

OK so I still haven't worked out how to get the photos to go nicely in between the text, but hey that's what the up and down arrows are for!!!