Happy Easter

Hope you are all enjoying the Easter break.

I wanted to share my lovely swap goodies for Jayne at Cupcake Fantasy we both took part in the swap organised by Faerie Nuff and I was completely spoilt. Jayne knitted two lovely cream egg holders, one is a chick and the other a egg in a egg cup, they are so clever and it makes me wish I could do clever things with wool.


I also got stickers, buttons and nests full of eggs, but my favourite two things are this fab little hand sewn chick on a stick and the wonderful eggy card


Look at the detail in this - no 2 eggs are the same.


Here it all is added to my Easter display in the hall. - Thank you Jayne

I am starting a new job on Tuesday so i will have less time for sewing and crafting, but more money to buy lovely hand made things!

MM xx

weekly roundup

I have done absolutly nothing today, felt unwell but nothing specific.

I did however want to share some lovely old cards with you. I have recently been given my mums old scrapbook, some of the christmas images got scanned and used for cards at Christmas. so here are a few of the easter ones

I managed to get my Easter swaps in the post yesterday, so now i can start thinking about my own decorations.

Off to the monthly barn sale tomorrow and the car boot season kicks off tomorrow as well.

MM xx

More sewing project completed

lots of pictures and no words today!

All that sewing and i also made and iced a birthday cake :-)



Enjoy the weekend and don't forget to spring forward with the clocks toninht

ps - hope you are all sitting in the dark for the next hour!

completed sewing projects

The garden has kept me busy this week, but i have managed to complete a few sewing projects

I made these needle cases for a tutorial on the Shabby Chic Cafe

and these bits are for a Charity fair in the summer

another tutorial produced this cushion cover

Hope you all enjoy the sunshine while it lasts - more gardening for me this coming week, one day i may have removed all of the weeds :-)

MM xx

Patchwork cyber quilt

Today on the Shabby Chic Forum several of us are going to make patchwork quilts. I made one a few years ago and am going to try and help Mary Poppins and Lacey who are both very talented make theirs. When they realise how easy it is Iwill be busted!

Last night I ran around and cut out some fabric squares, I had some left over from making my big quilt but as this was a quick project and I wanted to take some 'how to' pictures they were a bit big, so each original 4 inch square has been cut into 4.

I will post some pictures soon on our progress!

MM xx

30 hats and some completed projects

I have completed the 2 project I started last week. The linen basket was a pain to paint as the paint gets stuck between the weave, no matter how hard I scrubbed it in! - now I realise why so many people on the Internet recommend spray painting!.

The other project for the week was this little sewing box and I am really please with the result.


The knob is glass and was what attracted me to it in the first place.

I may have had one too many glasses of wine when I took this picture!

This is the next project and I have decided not to paint it, but just recover it. I was forced to order some fabric from CK to go with the soft green :-). So far I have removed the cover and managed to save the plaited braid and have washed the box and it is covered with bicarb to remover the nasty niffs!

I made 30 baby hats yesterday all from 8 old spaghetti strap tops. A local lady travels to India ever year with colleagues from the Royal Berks Hospital. This group of talented surgeons have been improving the lives of children in India for a number of years and my Mum knits hats for them to take out. Now as I can not knit I came up with this idea they are simple to sew and much quicker than knitting, they are also easier to transport out there.

A simple knot on the top finishes them off, but I leave them un knotted as they take up less room.

TTFN

MM xx

Stolen day of Spring

Today I really feel like I have stolen the first day of Spring, the weather forecast for the rest of the week is down to -5 and perhaps some snow, but today was lovely.

I picked these flowers and wish you could smell the violets, they remind me of my Grandmother.

I did my first real gardening of the year and cleared this bed of weeds and herbaceous dead stuff- only took a before picture though!
But look what i found in full bloom

Its a winter flowering iris and when we did work on the house I rescued a clump that lived in a bucket for months before i finally replanted them in lots of different spots and they have flourished this year.

A real wild primrose from seeds I gathered from my parents woods

The sun got me motivated to go outside a sand one of my latest projects - it has now had its first coat of cream paint and is drying by the Aga

The linen basket got scrubbed and washed and then covered in bicarb to remove any nasty pongs - the painting will start in the next few days.

I hope you all managed to see some sun today

MM xx