More fabric and sewing

Today I eased myself back into sewing again after my 2 week break and made these little make-up bags :) http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=176509.msg1824842#msg1824842 I just love this tutorial and the fabric is FAB too lol. I am hopeing to do a craft fair back in Norfolk in August so will have to have a think on what to take with me (and get sewing lol)

This bag is called Belle, like the Amelie ones I have been making but a bit bigger and has a top band. This is for my lovely Aunt in Norfolk, I was going to put one long strap on it so it went over her body but I forgot and just followed the pattern :( I hope she won't mind.

I used black cotton for the outer fabric and a vintage rose for the lining and pockets, one side of the pockets is black so she can find them lol and I also added a key holder as my Aunt wanted a bag for her work stuff.
Now I have some lovely new fabric to make some of those craft items :)

The Moda jelly roll was free when I subscribed to Popular Patchwork magazine and the Moda vintage rose fabric beside it was an end of roll bargain from the lovely Quilting shop in Cromford Mill (fast becoming my fav place) I get lots of advice from the lovely owner. Walking into the shop is like all birthday's and christmas' rolled into one also being a kid in a sweet shop and finding Aladin's cave lol. I could not resist the cute pattern's either :)

These are the last of my fabric treats for this week (until my very special fabric arrives from Ebay lol) I love the Michael Miller fabrics also loving bright zinggy fabric at the moment.

I still love my roses though :)

A beautiful day out

This is pic's of a beautiful day out that DS J, little dog and me had yesterday, we dropped DD off at work and decided to go on to the National Stone Center. I had luckly remenbered my camera :)
This is a great free place to visit.

Here is the start :)

DS J decided to see how deep the well was by counting how long the stone took to hit the bottom :)
These towers are dotted all around the walk with different tops on them.

The old quarry pit. I don't look down here lol.

Another stone tower.

This is the start of the Millenium wall walk. They built walls common to different parts of the UK. It is facinating to see how different they are :)

One of the walls (and my little dog)

These give you information on each wall and were they are built

Beautiful walks :)

DS J wanted a walking stick and is deciding which one to pick lol.

CARSINGTON WATER

We decided to move one after the stone center and go to Carsington Water, a very large lake.

This is just a few miles from the stone center and is another free (if you don't park in the visitors center car park) place to visit we always park in the sheepwash car park were there is a great area to have a picnic :)

This is the wildlife area it is full of buttercups at the moment.

This is a veiw from one of the bird watching huts dotted along the walk.

CROMFORD MILL
To finish off my Derbyshire travel guide lol I have included pic's of Cromford Mill wher my DD works.

This is a lovely place for a short stop over, some great little shops and a good coffee shop :)

To end it all I could not leave without visiting my fav fabric shop. The lady here is very freindly and has some amazing quilting stuff, it's like being a little kid in a sweet shop lol.

I still miss being by the sea when I moved from Norfolk but on days like this I love Derbyshire :)
No I don't work for any of these places lol.

Grandaughters pegs finished :)

Finished my darling grandaughters pegs ready for their new bedroom :)
I used the lovely flower from Tina's gift for baby and the heart yoyo's I made sometime last year :)
I had a sample pot of lilac paint left over from doing my daughter room so thought the wooden hearts would be a nice touch, the had a small hole in them so I glued a bead on to cover it.

When I was at my mum's for the weekend she was showing me her new Cricut and said she could do the girls names for me so I glued them on and put a coat of clear varnish over it.

I now have to make some little patchwork bags to hang on them :)

My son says I spoil my girls lol.

Sorry for not leaving comments on all my wonderful friends blogs but It won't let me :( I have heard that it playing up but I just want you to know I am keeping up with you all :)

Beautiful gifts

I had some beautiful gifts arrive in the post Friday but as I was rushing out of the door to go to Norfolk I didn't get to open it until I came back Tuesday.

The lovely Tina http://scratchycatcrafter.blogspot.com/ sent them to cheer me up after my hand op :)
I have loved everything she has made and her blog is a delight to visit :) The beautiful card has a stitched heart (she knows me well lol)
Opened up they revealed a pretty tin with a flower lid inside were the lemon melts she has made, they smell devine, I have one in my oil burner on the shelf above my PC now and I love it :)

Wrapped in very pretty fabric and tied with a cream ribbon was a perfect little note book :) I will be using it a lot for my sewing info as I keep loosing the scraps of paper I scribble things down on (like the measurements for a cover I told my mum I would make for her Cricut). The heart is hanging on my pegs above my sewing desk :)

Thank you Tina :) you brightened up my day no-end :)

Peg rack

I need to keep myself busy seeing as sewing is out the window till next week soI decided I would make some hooks for my 2 little angel princesses :) My DS2 & DIL are having to live in one room at the moment until they are given a house, hopefully July, and these will go in the girls new bedroom :)
I have made these before and are very quick to do (and I can do them one handed lol). Rebecca's pegs have now been painted with the Farrow & ball Middlelton Pink paint, I just need to find a slightly darker pink for the hearts and to stencil their names on.

I brought a paint pen and had a butterfly stencil to decorate them too :)

While I was doing the girls I made 2 more :)

These are the ones I did last year and Im going to make some of the little bags, like the ones here, to hang on the girls pegs so they can put their hairbands and little bits in (just waiting for the fabric to arrive from ebay).

Im now getting very bad withdrawal symptoms lol.

Just a quick hello

I just wanted to say a quick hello as Im not able to sew :( and show you this nice stawberry fabric that arrived today. I am toying with the idea of making bunting with it but then again I have other idea's for it too lol. I managed to quickly put these scrappy loyalty card wallets together the morning of my op as my sister's and mum all want one after seeing mine :) http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2009/03/tutorial-scrappy-loyalty-card-wallet.html
The green and yellow spotty buttons were off a duvet cover I got from a charity shop and I could kick myself as there were 2 sets but I only brought one and when I went back for the other one it had gone :(





Only problem is I was in such a hurry to get them done I have sewn one of the elastic loops on the wrong side :( The top one is ok if you need to take the cards out in a hurry lol as it will be upside down, I will have to unpick it when my hand is healed haha. Talking of hand lol here's mine

Stitches come out on the 24th :) :)

Fabric buying (again lol)

I had a wonderful visit to Cromford Mill on Saturday afternoon :)
They had a plant sale on so I thought I would go see if I could get some but as always I was too late, only the dregs left but I did remember the lovely hmo http://www.aandhcrafts.co.uk/blog/from MSE sewing forum http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2169321&page=400 telling me about a quilting / fabric shop there so I had to go check it out but before I did I went into have a look in the mill where they were having a craft weekend. I brought these 2 pretty cups for 50p, Im not sure what to do with them yet but they are lovely :) In the antiques room I found these lovely tray clothes £1 each. I thought I could do some cross stiching on them (not done any cross stich for a while now)

Then I made my way to the best shop in the mill lol :) I was like a small kid in a sweet shop the colours of fabric just made me stop, I had no idea where to start as fast as I found one I liked there was another one but in the end I brought these fat quarters and had a lovely chat to the lady who owns the shop :)

The darker fabric is a lovely deep purple :)

I am definitely going back again soon not just for fabric but also as it is such a wonderful place for all craft things and the walks are amazing :)

Start of my scrappy quilt :)

I have decided it's about time I did something with all the scraps of fabric I have been hoarding. I have sorted them into colour and started to sew they together. This one is all the pinks and greens I had (so far, there probably will be more lol) I have tons of white to sort and sew then the yellows.

Im not sure how big this quilt is going to turn out but I might have to make more than one with the amount of scraps I have.

I am having my left hand op on Tuesday so no sewing again for at least 2 weeks :( but the difference in my right hand is amazing so looking forward to having my left hand done, no more sleepless night due to my hand going dead and no more dropping things lol (I hope).