work in progress...

Ah, yes, another bad photo! This is a pattern from This Tiny Existence which I was eager to attempt - although it might defeat me yet. Let's just say it took a loooong time to do all this backstitch, and I'm thinking it's going to take even longer to fill it all in. Will give a progress report soon...

napkins

Another bad pic, but I think these came out rather well - for my friend Amanda's birthday in (ahem) April. Another lovely pattern from one of my favourite blogs, Chez Beeper Bebe.

prints charming skirt

Well, this is rapidly turning out to be the blog of bad photography - the curse of the time-poor! But I wanted to post about this skirt which I just finished last night... I bought a pack of Prints Charming offcuts from Kelani at the craft show (hmmm, craft show - actually, there were too many teddy bears, beads and scrapbooking stuff for it to be completely fab) and I then followed the fantastic instructions on this great blog, as well as the pattern-making instructions in Sew What Skirts which are very easy and produce really good patterns. The fabric pack had some great bits in pink and blue but in the end I decided to stick with these three colours - I'm thinking I might wear this to work so I didn't want it to be too loud (I already get comments when I wear red tights to work...). Just did the hem and the waistband with bias binding and it fits so well it doesn't need a top fastener.
I've lost my crafting mojo of late so this was a welcome return to form, and finished quickly enough to give me the satisfaction of a finished project - yay! I think this method has possibilities for using small bits of other beautiful fabric too...