Flirtatious fabric accessories

And more fabric projects!

Today's items use the Flirtatious Stampin' Up! fabric, which has three patterns - two in pinks and one in purple. Yum!

First up, a Suffolk puff brooch - possibly the quickest and easiest stitching project in the world!



Made from just a circle of fabric with a running stitch all around they edge, you can literally make these in 15 minutes.

They have loads of other uses as well as brooches - stick them on headbands, hair clips, or anything at all!

Also, some sort of zipped case. It's completely the wrong size for a pencil case (I didn't bother to measure or plan - I just stitched away!) but would be quite useful for makeup.



On one side is a hexagon patchwork flower.



And the other has a patchwork triangle pattern.

I may go a little quiet for a while now as I'm about to start working on Christmas presents, but I'll try to update on other things!

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Beau Chateau fabric birds

Another fabric project today!

I made these two little birdies from the Stampin' Up! Beau Chateau fabric and showed them to some of my SU family at our team training last month.





Here they are sat on my sewing kit.



They look rather inquisitive.



I even made them a nest from a witch's broomstick!

A great little project to work on of an evening and I might have to rustle up some more. I have visions of them sitting on branches as a funky mobile, or just hiding around my room.

I've used up my first pack of this fabric now. Best go order some more!

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Another Christmas tree decoration

Just stopping by for a quickie today - another Christmas tree decoration.



This time I used the Stampin' Up! Candy Cane Christmas fabric and decorated with sequins and beads.



Don't forget the FREE tutorial is over there >>>

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Stampin' Up! fabric boxes

Another idea for your new Stampin' Up! fabric today.

These little boxes are super easy to make and are great gifts (so if you're expecting a present off me this Christmas look away now!).

Basically, you cut two hexagons of fabric, sandwich a hexagon of pelmet Vilene in the middle, fold up the corners, et voila!





Heres a Timeless Portrait one. It works great as a little sewing basket on my desk.





And this is the Candy Cane Christmas fabric. A few of these on the coffee table filled with choccies will be just right!

I may sort out a tutorial for these soon!

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Beau Chateau accessories

The Beau Chateau Stampin' Up! fabric is my favourite. Ok, ok; one of my favourites.

It's all vintage and shabby and chic and cute and I've made several things with it already. For our team training I went all out with the accessories.

Firstly - I glammed up a pinny!



I made the basic pinny at the Knitting & Stitching Show last year, but never got round to finishing it off. Eleven months on, it is now all stitched and being worn with pride!



On the pocket I did some Big Shot flowers and a scrunched up strip to make a flower.





And some more Big Shot Fun Flowers. I edged it with the Victoria Crochet Trim and some netting.



Mummy Julie took this pic of me.



I also rustled up this bow which I stitched on to a hair clip. I made my own fabric button with cover buttons.



Here it is in situ (thanks again to Julie for taking the pic).



And finally, a brooch using the Fun Flowers die on the Big Shot.



I made two flowers of each size and added in some Seam Binding Ribbon, Narrow Grosgrain Ribbon and Victoria Crochet Trim.



Next on my to-do list with this fabric is a necklace.

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Stampin' Up! training with Julie's Jems - Fabric Christmas tree

Yesterday it was my SU mummy's all-day training session, so I spent a fantastic few hours getting my craft on with some great friends.

Julie had asked me to do a section using the new Stampin' Up! fabric so I got to share my love of sewing and show some projects that I have been making recently.

The one that got the most "oooohs" and "ahhhs" was this fabric Christmas tree made using a Japanese folded patchwork technique.



I was shown how to make this by some of my good friends at the WI, and I knew the Deck The Halls fabric would be just perfect.



It's nowhere near as complex to make as it looks - it boils down to ten fabric triangles folded like origami then stitched together.



Finish with some buttons, a pot and a loop of ribbon and it's ready to hang on the wall!



By popular demand, I will be putting together a tutorial on how to make this in the next few days, so watch this space!

Finally, here is the yummy cupcake I had after our lunch!

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100 quilted hexagons

I have now made 100 of the quilted hexagons Japanese folded patchwork style.



It doesn't look that many, but they are piled up a bit as I just threw them out of the bag!

The latest calculation suggests I will need 250 to 300 altogether, so about a third of the way through now! I've not properly figured out how wide and long it needs to be, so the total may keep changing!

Here are some of my favourites so far ...



These use some of the new Stampin' Up! fabric.



Some bright colours.



I particularly like this birdie.



And some with flowers.

I think it's time to start sewing them together. I might have the quilt finished by next Christmas!

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New Stampin' Up! catalogue out now

Hurrah! It's October 1st and that means the brand new Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalogue is released.



There are so many exciting new products that it's difficult to know where to start. You can see everything in its full glory on the website Stampin' Up catalogue.

You already know that one of my favourite new things is the beautiful fabric, so you can expect many more projects using that, but first, a card.



This is the gorgeous Everything Eleanor stamp set which is so versatile with lots of different elements. Definitely a must-have.



The flower is cut out, which is not too fiddly, and decorated with pearls. I also used the new Crumb Cake Taffeta Ribbon, another of my favourite new items.

Once you have decided what to order first, give me a shout and I'll get your new Stampin' Up! products to you ASAP.

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More fun with fabric

On Monday I spent a few hours with my SU mummy Julie playing with fabric and making some projects for her all-day training event in a couple of weeks.

I'll hold off showing you most of the things I made so as not to spoil the suprise for my fellow demos attending, but here are two mini cushions I rustled up.



This is SU faric but unfortunately not a pattern available over here (its good to have friends overseas!).

The hexagon flowers are so pretty and easy to make. I used a technique called English paper piecing. Basically, you cut out small hexagons of paper (takeaway menus are the ideal weight!) and then tack a slightly larger hexagon fabric over them. Then stitch all the hexagons together into a flower (or any shape you want) and remove the tacking stitches and take the paper out. Not as fiddly as it sounds, but it's hard to describe!

I machine stitched them on to the plain fabric I had (don't ask me what it is or where it came from!) then made that into the front of the cushion covers, with an envelope-style back.



And here they are in situ on my blanket box. I even made proper tiny cushion fillers by chopping up a big cushion pad.

On to the next project ...

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