I’m home and I’m sewing :-)

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!