Posts from — February 2009

This was the note that was carefully stuck on my sewing room door just before school started:

And as a dutiful mother (who may or may not have stayed up until 1am on the night before library day) here is the bag as promised. I made it from a tea-towel I bought in Venice (you should have seen hubbies face when I was buying it! ).

Now that the boy and the girl both have library bags I can move onto something more fun - like that Japanese pattern book that arrived last week

Zoe loves me making things for her, but she is often frustrated by my choice of fabric. While I try to keep things pretty and often add splash of pink, Zoe has explained to me carefully that there needs to be more pink. Pink on white, she explains, is ok, but what she really likes is pink on pink.

Recently Zoe needed a library bag and a rest bag for kinder and after sending her last year with a cot sheet stuffed in a pillowcase I was told that this year she would like one like all the other kids thanks. I was happy to buy her one, but asked if she would like me to make one - and I promised it would be very pink. Zoe agreed.

So here are the very pink creations - Zoe is very pleased with her bags (although the green ric-rac did cause some angst!).

Aha! Remember me?

I’m back

We arrived home 3 weeks ago to our piece of suburban paradise and have been reacquainting ourselves with our suburban existence ever since. In between all that I’ve been sewing!!!  I must say I was a little worried when I left that my joy of sewing would somehow leave me whilst we were away but I am pleased to report  that it has not! Apart form the 46 degree days when the sewing machine scolded my hands I have enjoyed nothing more than retreating to my newly decorated sewing room to sew up a storm. In just three weeks I have sewn curtains, library bags, clothes, soft toys and mattress protectors AND have got the house cleaned up for a rental inspection. I’m feeling like a bit of a hero (and if you’re thinking there’s nothing heroic about getting a house ready for inspection that has only been lived in for 3 weeks then you don’t know us very well!).

I will update this blog over the coming week with all my creations…but here are a few to start off with.

This is a favourite skirt from a Japanese pattern book that I can whip up very quickly for summer and winter. I squeezed this out of half a yard of Amy Butler fabric:

Here’s Zoe modeling it in front of the Fairy Tree in the Alexander Gardens holding Russell the kinder wombat:

This is a copy I made of one of Zoe’s old dresses that is nearly too small and I LOVE it! It was so quick to make too.

And this was another dress out of my favourite Japanese pattern book. I currently have this dress hanging on my sewing room wall as I love looking at it off more than I love it on (it makes Zoe look a bit pale and looks too much like a nighty!).

I might give it another go in a better fabric, or I might not. Toooo many other things to sew!