Bebe Au Lait Style Nursing Cover

I have been wanting to do some sewing for ages, and have been looking for projects suitable to make with my very limited fabric stash. I have been looking at apron tutorials for a while now, and yesterday I came across this nursing cover tutorial and thought to try and make one for my sister who has a newborn that might need breastfeeding when she is out in public. I measured out some fabric and found I have the EXACT amount of fabric for this project. I literally mean I only trimmed off the selvedge and straightened it out and was done with it.
I am very happy with it, my sewing looks very clean, but I will make another one with a slightly heavier material as this cotton was very lightweight.

I will take a better picture soon, my daughter kept grabbing it so I had to hang it on the cords of the blinds, forgetting that the light will affect my shot.

Say hello to Ted

FINALLY HE IS DONE!!!! I managed to get all the seaming done in one day, which is insane because it has taken me days trying to attach the head alone but I kept un-doing it. Geez it was fiddly and stressful and all those curvy bits!!! AAARRGH. I do realise It was difficult because of my inexperience in seaming up toys and hopefully it'll be easier next time round (which is definetely not any time in the near future).

He isn't perfect, One arm is slightly higher up than the other and is positioned a bit differently, but at this point in time my 1 yr old is gonna tug and pull at him so i'm not gonna worry (Which is very hard because I know I am able to fix it).

So yay to me for finally finishing, he is off my conscience and there is peace at last.

Why don't you say hello?

Update...

Just an update to include here what I'm working on at the moment, because it'll be a while before anything gets finished. Usually I get to spend a few hours a night working on my knitting but lately I've been going to bed soon after I put my daughter to sleep and am not getting any crafty work done during the day while I'm with her.

So I am at the seaming stage with my Traditional Ted with only the joining up of pieces left. I had great difficulty with the ears, and trying to get perfect placement, and the nose! I had to undo it maybe 3 times and I even tried embroidering the nose instead of sewing it on but it looked too flat. But in the end it all worked out and ears and nose are securely in place.

Poor little fella waiting to be completed.

Also my sister gave birth to a gorgeous little baby boy on 5th of September, 2012 and I have started on a baby blanket for him, I saw alot of beautiful patterns but I had to go for something mindless and easy because there are always interruptions at my house and I need to be able to pick up where I left of at any time. So I chose the Sunny Baby Blanket which looks pretty in the simple pattern and easy to memorise which is a bonus.

Here is my progress so far.

A Holden for a classy lady

Finally my Holden Shawlette is off the blocking board, (well in my case blocking towel) and has been sent overseas to my extremely classy and very pretty MIL. In saying so, I hope that this shawl in my choice of colour will look stunning draped around her shoulders. I realised as I got home from the post office that I forgot to take a proper picture after blocking.... What a shame as I was looking forward to taking a fancy photo.

I blocked it with so much precision and accuracy that I could've cried when the post office girl was stuffing it into a smallish padded envelope (it was either a massive envelope or a larger box so I had no choice). I hope it still looks good when it's opened.

Just for the record this was a great pattern, very easy for a first time shawl knitter like myself and the resulting peice of work is fabulous.

So my MIL Holden, in all it's glory.....

Taggie Blanket Take 2

Many months ago I made a crackly taggie blanket for my little one which she loved enormously. After a few washes the crackly portion in between the two outer fabrics tore and I was left with a blanket that was crackly in parts and bare in parts. Unable to bear my work deteriorating before my very eyes I decided to rip it apart and re-sew with a new crackly layer. The ribbons lost a bit of length in the new seam allowance but I wasn't going to rip out each ribbon and re-adjust. I just don't have that much time at any one period of time and I didn't want to leave a bunch of small ribbons lying around while I do the billion other things I need to do.

Please excuse the wrinkles, I was eager to give it to my girl and forgot to take pics till after she let it go and took off for the remote control.

Mary's First Birthday

Well my little one turns one today. WOW!!!!! How did the days fly by? I still cannot fathom how hubby and I managed to nurture and safeguard baby Mary this whole time, but god willing we have succeeded. So for this occasion I baked a chocolate cake and spent most of the day chasing after Mary as she investigates for items to pick up and put in her mouth.. YES AWESOME I KNOW!!!!


The point in this little intro is how I came to the conclusion to start my own blog. Truth is I just wanted to document all the innovative (well not really) mischief that I get up to and the other bits and pieces that I would love to share, whether it be baking, gardening, crafting, reading etc etc.

So let's have some cake!!!!