'You Sew Girl' A-Line skirt.......

This week I finally had the chance to sew up Nikki's A-Line Skirt (You can buy yourself a copy here) 

 I made the shorter version in some beautiful Rachel Ashwell heavy weight fabric that I have had in my cupboard for about 6 years. I haven't dared cut into it before now!

 It is the perfect fit and feels really great on; perfect for us women with a defined waistline.

 Nikki's instructions are incredibly detailed and easy to read and follow, with helpful photos too. This pattern is one that I can see myself using over and over again.

'Thanks Nikki!', and Thanks Rachel Ashwell!

Kathryn. xx

Ductwork Spacemen.....

Only kids could think of this!!!! It is some of the ductwork for the central heating which still needs to be installed. We are settling into the house a bit better now. Master 7 isn't feeling as homesick for the old house now and is settling down for bed at night a bit easier. We have a few doors on now too - we can go to the loo in peace! My Dad came down for a few days last week and did a few more jobs for us - skirting boards, architraves, doors, door handles etc... Thank you Dad.

Continuing on from the Ductwork Spacemen above, here is a photo of the boys a few weekends ago at the Star Wars Exhibition at Science Works in Melbourne. Master 7 hated the crowds and just wanted to get out of there...until R2D2 "spoke" to him. The rest of us thought the exhibition was fantastic and loved every minute of it. If you get a chance to see it before it ends at the beginning of November, do, it was a great day out.

Now, getting away from the space theme....this was a "house warming" present from a lady we know. She gave us some money to buy something so we put it towards an original painting by Gail McCormack. I love Gail's paintings, they are so beautiful and very reasonably priced too. As well as originals, she has many prints, cards, mixed media and her husband, Tony, restores old furniture.

Now to crafting, I have been making a few things to stock up the shops for Christmas. I have also been thinking of doing a local market as well.....I need to think about it a bit more first.

I will leave you here with a little snippet of my favourite fabrics all piled, neatly, in my new sewing room cupboard!

Cath Kidston on the left and Rachel Ashwell on the right.......ah!

I haven't had a lot of time to visit you all lately but I will try and make some time this week.

Hope you are all well, Kathryn. XX

Whaaachooo!

SNIFF,

SNEEZE,
BLOW!
My first cold for the year, see you next week....
Kathryn. XX (only cyber kisses)

A quickie.....

Hi everyone, just thought I'd do a quick post to let you know that I am still here and that I have been busy! Things with the house are starting to get crazy and we will be working all weekend putting insulation in. I have been doing lots of "lurking" this past week so I apologise and I promise I'll get around to visiting you all properly next week.

I have managed to get some sewing done. These cushions were made yesterday with an assortment of gorgeous Shabby Chic fabrics from Rachel Ashwell (all disontinued now that Shabby Chic has gone out of business, sniff) and Cath Kidston as well as some Barkcloth Roses. (they will be added to the website soon) Anyway, here they are.....

Promise, I'll "talk" to you all soon, Kathryn. XX

A Cushie Job...

It's not really a cushie job, it's actually a really fiddley one, but worth it in the end.

And, I seem to have done this........ quite a lot during the process.

Apologies if you are squeamish! I've been making a few cushions over the last few days.

I had a custom order for this one....

House Inc. Stella and Eden fabrics...

So, I thought I'd do a few more.
The ruffles are so time consuming (I don't have a ruffle foot on my machine) but so pretty in the end.

I've used Rachel Ashwell's Wildflower, Cabana Stripe and Ribbons & Roses. All are discontinued now and will be very hard to find soon. Good job I have a good stash of them!

More House Inc. fabrics. They are all so soft and femine.
I think one, or two, may not make it to the shop!

Kathryn. XX

Crowning Glory...

I've had this idea in my head for a while now and yesterday began working on it.

"Crowning Glory"

I know crowns have been around for ages and I've seen many screen printed versions which I have loved.

But, I thought a Shabby Chic one was called for.

So I dug out my stash of Rachel Ashwells' "Wildflower" fabric and set to work.

This is how it turned out.

I handsewed the pearl trim and freshwater pearls on and hand ruffled the organza ribbon.

I love it. I think I will have to make a few more.

Lots' of Shabby cushions have been added to the website and Etsy

My Mum was thrilled to know that her fox was on yesterday's post.

Thank you for all of your lovely comments.

Only today left to enter the giveaway...

Kathryn. XX