Hehe baby baby carriers!

Ok so I'll tell you since I'm making, like, the most obscure product imaginable ;) I'm trying to put together a couple of baby carriers .... for babies. ... you know ... to carry their toys around in :) .. I'm going to try and make a Mei Tai and a ring sling.... if you don't know what those things are hopefully you will by the end of the night...

WIP Wednesday: Cross Stitch!

Can you believe I've never done ANY cross stitch?! I've never really seen the point since you can have much more freedom in your designs using backstitch embroidery. I also hate the look of aida cloth and think unless you have the whole surface covered in stitches it looks rubbish (and I don't have that kind of patience)
So I recently discovered soluble canvas! and that's what I'm using here, means I can use fabric from my fabulous stash and just add cross stitch accents to bits and bobs, here and there... so that's what this is all about... but *shhh* I'm not going to tell you exactly what this is for yet, but I'm very excited about it!

Work In Progress Wednesday: Marvel Superhero Canvases

hey remember ages ago I bought this at a carboot sale:

well... with a bit of mod podge and some cheap canvasses I think I'm on to something:

not finished yet, but looking good I think :-) xx

I'm still here.... working away,,,

Work in Progress Wednesday - Unicorn Embroidery

Damn I love Pinterest.... if you're on there and havn't found me yet, I'm here.

I found this embroidery pattern via Catlyn Lawson - original work by My Girl Thursday

 

I've seen a couple of unicorn based cross stitch projects on Craftster recently that I wanted to do an embroidery version of, and since I'm on maternity leave now I thought it was time to get my teeth into a large-ish embroidery project.

This is where I was a couple of days ago:

and this is where I am right now:

oh yea, unicorn rainbows baby!

can;t wait to get this all done.. my fingers hurt!!

Project Maternity - honourary mention - DIY Maternity

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Some of you may not have noticed, some of you may not care!

As I mentioned to my facebook peeps easier in the week the Project Maternity Bandwagon is moving QUICKLY!! after desperately begging, the lovely Megan from DIY Maternity has donated a copy of her maternity wrap top to the cause!! Here is why I thought it was so necessary:

isn't it JUST PERFECT? I could wear this to work, I could wear it to the shops, it's just so wearable, it's going to be the ultimate in comfort and a really truly 'fitting' maternity top as you wrap it around your bump!

the only downside? this baby EATS fabric... oh well... I suffer for my art and all that...

DIY Maternity has a bunch of other tips, tricks and tutorials I'll probably be using along the way, such as how to sew a belly band (I've heard those things are lifesavers), as well as some pretty good upcyling ideas... and y'all know how much I love to upcycle

Project Maternity - lesson 1 - Don't trust the internet [fabric]

FABRIC HAS ARRIVED!!! woooooooooohooo!!!.... well... kinda

ok... those are 2 different greens... *facepalm*... actually it's COMPLETELY my fault! I'm blaming the internet but the internet only does what it's told... let's review.
actual fabric:

fabric as advertised on website:

now... they do look like similar colours on the photos... but any old fool knows that cameras alter the quality of colours, as do computer monitors... but what I can't forgive myself for is the stripe-disparity! and there's NO excuse for that! one picture has a tape measure next to it so I can SEE that the stripes are tiny tiny, not as big as they clearly are against the dressform...

pssht.. you live you learn, I'll still use it :-) but I'm going to have to do it the old fashioned way and take a sample of the bright green stripes to a fabric shop somewhere and find a matching jersey.. I need stretch for these waistbands!!!

nevermind... lets gaze lovingly at this beauty!!

 

mmmmmmmmmmmm :-) this pattern, with these colours,  makes me SO happy... this fabric is going to very much enjoy being 'quirky maternity skirt' Micheal Miller I want your fabric babies!

Work in Progress Wednesday - Star Wars Embroidery

So I've been working on this thing, it started out as a thought, wouldn't it be great to have a rustic embroidery piece like this:

 

but with a silly quote from star wars instead... so one afternoon I googled embroidery borders and found this:

(courtesy of tipnut) and with a lot of copying and pasting and use of text boxes on MS word I ended up with this:

which when transferred to fabric using disappearing pen looks like this:

and now looks like this:

I added a bumble bee... because bumble bees live in hives... even wretched ones....

That's actually green gingham... but in this light it looks yellow, stupid energy saving bulbs...

anyhoo... that's what I'm doing at the moment...

x G