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I’ve been on there for a while and I have the honor of doing a giveaway!  Wohoo!  I have one of my new Hanging Strawberry Sewing kits to giveaway to some lucky punk, and that could be you.  You could sew up your own string of strawberries or give it as a gift to a keen craftsy type.  This kit is for a small string of three strawberries.

You just need to visit the giveaways page, over here, post a comment and you’re in, you have until Dec 11th, so get on over there!

So… here’s a cool new market, and I’ll be there!  Wohoo, come along to i.craft.kingsland next Sunday and say hello, see what everyone has been up to, here are the deets:

Sunday 30 October  3-6pm, at Crave Cafe, 25 Mcdonald Street, Morningside.

Some of the stall holders are Heather and Jasmine Dodson or The Grizzly Peasants
Leanne Martell from Lather and Lotion.

I’ll have a selection of purses, and sewing kits and of course, those favourites, cupcake pin cushions and needle books.

This year you can find me and my Mermaid’s Purse a few other markets, I’m doing some school markets and a couple of other new ones to mix things up a bit, maybe get closer to where you are..  Take a look over at the sidebar on your right, see?

I’m really excited about going along to the Michael Park School Fair, and it’s only two weeks away!

I’m bring my beautiful new purses, and sewing kits, I’m making up some now, strawberry decorations, easy to sew in felt and felt carrots and – if I can swing some more late nights, maybe a couple more kits.  I like the idea of inspiring kids to get stictching, so these are perfect for a beginner and can be used to make your house all festive…

So here are the details:

Michael Park School Fair

Saturday 5th November, 2011
9.30am – 3.30pm
Michael Park School
55 Amy Street
Ellerslie

Here is a map:

See you there!

This has been up for AGES.

It’s the Wooly Walk Along, and it’s just so fun.

It’s here on Felt.co.nz..

This piece was so very striking!

Nice huh.  Even made news in The Herald.

Soft spot for flowers!

Cute!

These are so pretty and I have used all the fabric, enough for two cuffs and three purses…

And these denim and daisy ones, all summery and embroidered.

Take a look at this fabric!  One was an old cushion cover and the other was a square of curtain fabric I picked up ages ago.

These babies are lined with gingham.

Nice finishing huh, holds the zips in well, and is all neat and tidy, just how I like them!

These are a couple of glasses cases, or tall pencil cases I suppose.  I have BIG  sunglasses and they fit well, with room to spare.

Nicely lined too of course…

Good colours in those retro fabrics, just love them.

This fabric is weird, I just hope to have enough for a skirt…

because the more I see it the more it gets to me!

This one is mine!  When starting a new project I always have a few to giveaway to friends and of course something for myself.

I rally enjoyed working these out, a raided my fabric stash, which includes some beautiful vintage and retro fabrics, especially some sweet soft gingham.

Nice huh?

This gingham was from my nana’s stash, she made clothes for some ragdolls I still have out of it.

These are extra special, I have used some vintage duotone embroidery thread, also from a family stash…  Do you remember this post about raiding some of my tins?  There is only a limited range using this good stuff, can’t bear to use it all up…

This is my vintage rose fabric, soft and SO lovely.  Perfect for spring, and more embroidery.

I’ll be at Kraftbomb at the end of the month, come and grab yourself one there!

So this is finally finished!  I’m so pleased, it has been one of those projects which I’ve wanted to just make up over a weekend, but has taken me a month or so half and hour here and there.  The kids love it too.

We needed a comfy cushion to sit by the radio listening to audio books and reading books by the ‘home library’ a small bookshelf in the living room which attempts to contain the downstairs kids books.

Also you might remember Luna’s Letters, a stuffed alphabet made out of felt I made Luna a while back which also took ages, but is still a favourite toy to play with or just throw around heh.

So it was really quite a simple project, I spent awhile hand cutting the letters, I’m making an alphabet blanket too, and probably another set of letters.  I had this old orange wool blanket that was one of the picnic beach blankets, though a bit small for us all now.  So I just visually laid out the letters on one half of the blanket, hand stitched then on (this took all the time) over about a month.

The blanket is old and wearing a little thin in places, it also stretched a bit as I was working with it, so it was lucky I backed it with a piece of cotton.

I went with warm coloured letters, red, pinks, yellow, etc.

The back, I like to see the backs of work like this, maybe you do too?

So, the next bit was the speedy and much easier bit, sewing the cushion up, again as I had found the blanket was becoming thin, I backed it with an unused cot sheet, kind of quilty, (I momentarily considered getting much more quilty with it but reconsidered how much more time that would take!).  I spent some time ensuring the layers would not move while sewing together by pin basting the pieces together.

Phew!  Then to the machine, great to get it going in the new sewing room.

All ready to fill!  Though I allowed the hem space around the sides and base, it was not quite enough, I needed more edge at the bottom so there is a bit too much space at the top of the cushion…

But it still looks cool when it’s full, see!

See the kids love it!  Luna listening to The Witches.

Blake chilling out.

I am really so excited!  That’s all I’m saying.  Besides the deets of course.

It’s from 10 am – 5 pm, Alexandra Park Raceway, corner Greenlane & Manukau Roads, Epsom.  Genuine vintage
* Fabrics
* Clothing
* Hats
* Linen
* Accessories
* Trims
* Buttons
* Lace
* Books
etc
General admission: $5.00, door sales only.

Wohoo.

If only I’d had a chance to whip up this blue number…

Luna’s favourites and arranging pins in the pincushion…