The most beautiful day...in pictures

Hope you had a good one on this beautiful Spring day!

Frustating!

I thought I'd cheat a bit yesterday- I was at the local shopping centre anyway, and knew the black leggings the kid was wearing were on their last legs- whinging whenever she wore them alerted me to that!

So I dropped in to Best and Less and picked up a pair, for $13.99. She wore them for a little bit when she got home, then got into her pj's.

So I was pretty annoyed when I look at them this morning, and the elastic was broken!

I marched them back to the shop and got my money back; and dove into my Sewing Clothes Kids Love book and made Riviera, which took all of about an hr, including tracing the pattern! I piece, people! Easy. (and 2 things back to back from that book, it is amazing!)

Short cuts rarely work!

And they were declared the best ones ever! Now I'll be on the hunt for good stretch fabrics in my oppy haunts. I'm even getting over my fear of stretch fabrics for them!

Oh, a little tip for measuring elastics for waistbands- middle of the day is your safest bet. Measured in the morning- too loose. Measured at night- too tight. What a difference a day of food makes!

I picked up some t-shirts and sewed a hexie flower on one;

and these 2 singlets will be at the market next week, I'm hand sewing them on as they are so small and fiddly. Having no sleeve arm on the machine limits me a bit! (When I mentioned that to my Janome shop, they advised me I should have gotten the Horizon; oh, silly me!)

Hope you're having a crafty weekend!

Hand piecing

I had to do a separate post for this one, being so monumental and all! After wondering why anyone on Earth would sew by hand when there was a machine invented, I understand it- it's addictive!!

It's given me a break from only being in the sewing room (as much as I love my TV in there, it only recieves ch 9 and ch 10, as well as not being the big screen LCD I bought) so the couch is getting a nice bum imprint at the moment.

First is my finished Block 1 for the Amitie BOM. Easy peasy so far, I'm kidding myself if they'll all be this easy though, I think!

and some hexies- sexy hexies, as we are calling them. These are 7/8 inch small;

and some 1 inch gifted to me. With some Flea Market fancy, so precious!

The Little Miss picked these ones out, and put them in order, they'll go onto a t-shirt tonight.

No, not a quilt- I thought a clutch purse might be nice, might team it with some denim, might use this as a flap.... decisions, decisions!

Off to unpick some basting!

The Reveal

We had a bit of light this morning, and the child wouldn't believe me that it was cold- once

she was outside in this, she believed me!

Murray tried to get in on the action!

She finally put a top on to go out in

and I happily started at her skirt the whole time she wore it. Happily! Yay!

My Creative Space

OK, I'm sort of cheating, as I forgot to take a snap at the beginning of the day, so it's sort of already finished. I'll unveil when it's on the contrary child!

As a break from market prep, I picked something easy- 3 patterns pieces, easy to follow instructions, and an Insa. Wonder if it will prove as popular as the Djortes?

Over here for more, hope she's having a creative bloggy break!

Flea Market Finds

I'm joining in the week to show of this great find...

This is new chenille bedspread I picked up at Savers for .....$12.99! Anyone who hunts for chenille will know this is a bargain!

It had single on the tag, so I thought it may be good on the Little Miss's bed- excellent condition, it has been mended in one part, so was obviously loved! But it also fits quite nicely on my queen sized bed....

here may be some sharing happening....

head here to see more spaces.

Schoolhouse Tunic

I whipped this one up last night (and would have finished it then if the overlocker hadn't had a spack attack, and I needed to re thread and finish it off this morning)

I also didn't think to have the child photographer take a snap whilst I was wearing it all day,

no, I'll wait till I'm in my jarmies and have to stick it on Fem-Bot.

But you get the picture.

Pattern here

Fabric from here.