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First Progress Update

I am making progress slowly with some of my projects, I have cut out the ladybird dress, and the photo albums are coming on nicely, all the backing pages have been cut to size and some of the photo mountings have been prepared. I'm one page of fancy paper short though, I just can't count to twelve it seems. Oops. I guess I'll just have to make another trip to Spotlight on Monday.

I have a new project to add to the list. Looking at other people's blogs is a dangerous thing. Meik from the EB Newbie Sewers Thread posted these gorgeous beanbags - what a simple and effective idea. I was thinking of other shapes as well (pyramids maybe) and a further search along the same theme brought me to these cute baby cubes, so I have decided that as well as the beanbags, I am also going to make an alphabet set of cubes (nothing like making things difficult for myself). I think that these will make great Christmas presents for my little one who will be 7 months by Christmas.

So I have a stash of scraps which is going to get a work out in the next few days and hopefully will be able to get a set of beanbags and cubes cut out. I can also start sewing on the letters by hand while I'm waiting to get my sewing machine back. So far I have printed some big chunky letters out and pinned them onto some fleece (so I don't have to worry about it fraying), so now for cutting out each one, that could take a while, I hope there's something good on TV this afternoon!

A non-sewing project while my machine is out of order

I'm making some photo albums for the grandparents for Christmas of Bethan's first few months, thought I'd get started as it will probably take me some time to do them well.

I picked up some nice folders to start with,


and then fancy paper

Black and coloured paper

Funky letters and numbers

Here's the first pages of the albums finished

So what am I waiting for?

Well, all these projects, and fabrics are all very well, but there's one little flaw in the plan. My sewing machine has had to go back to be repaired. Hopefully we will be reunited early next week some time but in the meantime I plan to cut fabrics and get things ready to sew.

Other fabrics waiting for projects

These arrived from Funky Fabrix yesterday,



these are recent Spotlight purchases,



and this is my fabric box with other bits and scraps in it.

A Major Work in Progress

I started this little project when I was 12 weeks pregnant and now she is 6 weeks old!

Front

Back

Froggies

Hopefully these fabrics will soon become:

A warm blanket in pale turquoise cuddle fleece and soft flannel.



Some more cloth wipes - we mever seem to have enough.

Green Pincord Dungarees

How cute are these, the fabric is cut out and ready to sew. I think that this could be a fiddly one!



and these fabrics should make some cute t-shirts/onsies to go underneath

Ladybird Dress

Reversible dress for Miss Bethan - to be made in 6-9 month size for the summer.

Loving the ladybirds, and planning a couple of ladybird nappies to go with it.

Thinking about Christmas

I'm going to make some bags for Christmas presents for my MIL. She loves the supermarket green bags. They didn't have them in the UK when she first came over here to visit us, she takes about a dozen of them home with her each time she visits and uses them to put presents in. So I'm going to make a couple of supermarket sized ones and then some smaller ones for gift bags from any scraps I have.

For the first two I have the following fabrics (the pink is for lining). I'm going to try and get some more Australiana fabrics as she loves all the kitchy animal and plant prints.

Nappy Project

I'm making a batch of nappies for Bethan, here are some of the fabrics I have received so far! Still waiting on plain PUL, Bamboo, Microfibre and Suedecloth...

Pretty PUL



Minky Delight



Snuggly Fleece

About time too...

Well, I've been planning to get a blog for quite a while now, and now I have time and things to blog I thought that this would be as good a time as any.

Here goes! Wish me luck!

I hope to blog my training as well as updates on my beautiful daughter Bethan and some of my more creative exploits.