Sew it Together Name Tag

I've finished my name tag for Gypsy's Sew It Together Name Tag Swap. I had two ideas in my head but this was the one that seemed to be calling me.

I used some aqua barkcloth I've had in my drawer for ages for the front and back. I picked up this doily at the op shop, cut it to size and embroidered the name on. After reading Cam's suggestions to make the tag stiff I interfaced both pieces of barkcloth but then I realised they would be to stiff to turn right side out. So I had to blanket stitch around the edges. I figured it's not going to be washed so a little fraying will look ok.

I'm such a worrier that my partner won't like it so I might still go with my other idea. Maybe I'll see if they comment!

Apologies to my swap partner as my embroidery skills are not top notch.

A New Bag

I've had this idea for a new bag in my head for ages. I just drew it straight on to some interfacing and then cut the fabric out.
I used Wildwood with interfacing on the outside and it is lined with a dark grey wool flannel, which is also interfaced giving the bag a nice structure.

I'm happy with how it turned out but it isn't exactly how I envisaged it so I am going to sell it as a sample so if you are interested pop over here

Sample Swap

Hi fellow Sew It Together friends

Some of you may remember (and/or participated in) the 10 item swap I organised last year and I thought maybe I could organise something similar for Sew It Together.

How it works:

• Nominate to participate

• Once I have numbers I will let everyone know how many items they need to make (for example if there are 30 people we would probably divide it into 5 groups of 6 so you would make 5 items). MAXIMUM ITEMS WOULD BE 10, although even if everyone participated we could still do smaller groups if it would make it easier time-wise.
  

• Bring your items to the Saturday session

• Some time during the day those who participated could break away and then I would have everyone's name in a hat and we would start drawing. The first 6 names to come out would break away and swap their items and so on.

So let me know what you think, anyone interested? You can also leave any messages here

Cass

Big Brown Bear

Some very good friends recently gave birth to a beautiful little boy called Ryan.  Of course I had to make him something but had to wait until he was born before I could start.  I decided on a small quilt/play blanket using Big Brown Bear fabric and we gave him the book to go with it.

I just did a simple stitch in the ditch quilting and I did the binding in the stripe fabric. 

At 6 weeks old he seemed very happy with it!

Lead Pencils

Why can I never find any lead pencils in my house?

Why do lots of lead pencils come unsharpened?

I love writing with lead pencil,

Charlotte has to do her homework in lead pencil

I think The Borrowers are living here.

Testing

I was reading this blog yesterday and Michelle mentioned Windows Live so last night I downloaded it and thought I would have a go posting from the Live Writer feature.  So I don’t really have anything to say except maybe check it out and see what you think.

I can’t get the photo bit to work though so I need to investigate that more.

OK that’s cool I just went back in and can retrieve the post so now I’m going to try a photo

So I can add a photo from flickr but not from my computer.  I think I need to set some other thing up but as you can tell I am totally un-geeky!

Fabric

We had our monthly Hills Craft Room last night and Sheridan and Peta were talking about a sale at Hobby Sew. Now I get the mailouts from them but this time I didn't even open it and apparently there was Denyse Schmidt on sale. Now this lady had pretty much cleaned the shop out and after checking out what she got I thought I'd take a little trip this morning. So Lucy and I dashed out there between school drop off and playgroup and got all this:

Denise Schmydt

Anna Maria Horner, Jennifer Paganelli, Heather Ross

To top the morning off this was in the mailbox when we got home, just about to sit down with some lunch and have a read