SweetMyrtle

hair ornament

today we have been making hair ornaments and jewellery.

i am doing a workshop tomorrow so it is great to have some new samples to show the group.

i seem to be blogging daily, please don't faint. i  don't expect i will be able to keep it up but i  would like to  post a little more regulary and to share what we have been up to.

you may also have noticed that i have changed my blog banner. this was something i had been contemplating doing but after trying to make my central blog column layout a little wider yesterday i lost my banner. therfore it seemed like the right time to design a new one. i have designed a few and am still undecided which to use, if any.

the one up at present i feel may be a little too 'shouty'.. you know .. a bit too large?

here are a few more options... i would love to know your thoughts...

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maybe see you tomorrow then?

Gx

 

really happy!

i have been grinning like a cheshire cat as the parcel that i was excited about receiving yesterday contained this...

a copy of the summer issue of Cloth all for me.

not only was i delighted to receive a free copy of this cool new sewing magazine  but i was also both anxious and excited to leaf through to find this...

... i knew that it would be in there somewhere and was so pleased to discover the article that Clare wrote after spending the day with us in the studio back in March. the magazine also shares a tutorial (with my photos.. yay!)  on how to create the 'sewing notes' ring binder cover. which i blogged about here.

 

 so thrilled!

Cloth has a smaller A5 format than the usual sewing magazines, is 88 pages long and the FSC paper it is printed  on is pleasing and tactile.  it is filled with ideas, articles, sewing workshop information, event dates, tutorials and useful techniques. in this issue there is even a pattern for a cute  bikini.

Alice and I started working together at the end of 2001 and have had our work  and tutorials included in various glossy and sewing mags before but this is the first feature we have had written  actually about us... so thank you so much Clare... as i said before, we are thrilled!

wishing you all a fun filled weekend. we are off to meet a lovely friend and an equally lovely furry friend tomorrow for a walk and chat... fingers crossed for some sunshine.

x

edit to add.. i cannot seem to make the Cloth links work... but the web address is www.clothmagazine.co.uk

sewing notes...

last week  i created a  cover for my sewing folder. i had some pretty pink candy stripe in my stash which was the perfect weight. i am not really a pink girl though strangely i have made a few 'pink' things recently.

 i used my vintage cotton reels photo,  printed on to fabric for the front cover and added a few scattered buttons for embellishment.

i wanted my folder to be practical as well as decorative (it holds my notes for our young stitchers sewing club) so i created two pockets to hold scissors and pencils inside the front.

The fabric i used for this is very special to me as it was my mother-in-laws (she sadly is no longer with us). i know she would approve of how i have used it as she loved to sew.

 i also added a place to hold my sewing needles so that they are handy for class.

 

the little closed pocket inside the back cover holds my patterns and wee little sample projects.(the yo yo brooches we made yesterday are in there just now)

i really enjoyed creating this project  and giving a  new lease of life to my tired old ring binder.

there are so many possibilities for other designs too and i like the idea that i can make use of some of my photographs.

i am thinking maybe a vegetable record folder next as the growing season has commenced here!

what would you do?