Adventures in Overlocking! Part 1

So The big day came and went on Wed. I am now 32 years old!.........How the hell did that happen??????

Well I cant complain too much as i did get THIS LITTLE BABY from my lovely man..............

I have been lusting after an overlocker for aaaaaaages now, I have a thousand and one ideas/creations bursting to get out....Just need to figure out how to use it first!.....Surprisingly it was not as difficult to thread, as i had been led to fear it would it! I just need to practice a bit more with the tensions and widths before i brave it for proper use.

I was also treated to a trip to Ikea, where i was actually allowed to hang out in the soft furnishing section for more than 5 seconds, and got to choose these treats.........

The whirlwind already has impeccable taste and produced these for mummy........

Neils mum also came up trumps finding this lovely fabric.......

I was Quiet spoilt really as there were lots of other lovely treats from friends and family...... Oh and flowers

Now i just need to pull my finger out and get creating, I have some shoes and squeakers going to a baby/toddler sale tomorrow in our local church hall. my name is going down for a few school Christmas fairs and i have signed up for the big Christmas Craft fair on 29th November in the Castle hall, so i am going to be very busy! I'm really looking forward to it all as its about time i really threw myself into the whole thing......Cath Kidston watch out!!!!!

xK

Secret treasuer trove!

How excited am i!?.......VERY!

Yesterday on my way to pick the Whirl-wind up after work, I decided to try my luck at what looked to be a short-cut down a side street! I still don't know this town very well and I have lived here a year now, but it looked like I was going in the general direction! Well to my delight I found myself walking past an interior designers shop, with a lovely table display of fabric in the window, and a sign that read....Wait for it.!.......'Remnants £3 a meter'. Oh how I swooned! Luckily it was still opened so in I popped. The lady who greeted me was lovely, she explained that she had only put the table up that morning as she had found her remnant box was starting to explode. All the fabrics, were designer quality with regular retail price £25. Seriously, I was like a kid on a candy store, I felt the need to touch everything ( Why do we do that?) There were linens, duck cotton, muslin, taffeta, silk, canvas.....oh the joy!


As they were remnants they were not all solid pieces, some were l-shaped, some cone, etc but I managed to come away with this little lot for a mere £7........Oh the joy!

My favourite has definitely got to be this 1/2 mtr called 'Saga', by a Swedish designer called Sandberg. Don't you just love all those fairy tail castles!.....This will become storage bags for the whirl-winds toys.


And then this 1/2 cone scrap of retro kitch ( 1/2 mtr at wides point, but only 30cm at narrowest, but about 1.5 mtrs in length so still a fair bit!) This one is called 'play time picnic' by Tilley & Marr. ( please excuse the dodgy hand shadow taking the pic!) Not sure what i will do with this yet but i HAD TO HAVE IT!


And finally 2 cotton pieces, one with embroidered multi coloured dots, and one blue with yellow embroidered squares with flowers at the joins ( make sense?) I think these are bags waiting to happen!


........Oh The joy!
Apologies again for dodgy, shadowy pic's ,but photographed them late last night in a very excited ''cant wait to share my good stash'' kinda way!
x K

The Postman always rings twice

The fruits of my ebay splurge arrived this morning....



......I feel a patchwork coming on!

And I also recieved an invitation to one of my oldest friends wedding in August. That gives me aprox 3months to stress out about what im going to wear!

After chasing the whirl wind round her room this morning, i finally managed to get a picture of her face up, and standing still! It was to send to Daddy. He feels sad he hasnt seen her for 9 days now!


Isnt she just the cutest!

xK