Make Baby Stuff

Make Baby Stuff

Goodness... just when you thought it safe to put the sewing machine away... you stumble on this outstanding lady with such imaginative sewing ideas and pretty much all created for and with mothers, pregnant, nursing, babies and toddlers....

Thank god I bought a stash of cotton today to make a dress for my angel... :-)

Thank you very much for sharing ... all I wanted was the doll one lol

Sugar and Spice = Cake....

So, today - despite being lethargic and very sleepy (mostly asleep through the day like a vampire), I opened my eyes this afternoon and remembered I have college tonight.

A new course, only 6 weeks, but new to me and just what I want to do, hands on and immediate results can be seen... Cake decorating... We did flowers this evening...

Roses, Mine Baby Blue, well the first one was blighted with disease, very poorly turned out,

My second, slightly less diseased, and getting there,

My third, well, what can I say, looks delightful, very pretty and rather too pretty to apply to the top of a cake for munching on.

What do I do? Historians tell how Icing statues and buildings were made to adorn dinner tables for 'posh' do's that the gentry held. These were so very intricate, very lifelike, very very edible, and very very expensive, so very beautiful that the shame was in the eating of it at the end of the meal...!

its a little bit like the ice sculptures that just melt away, or the sand monuments made on beaches by very talented artists, that most likely do it for either notoriety or for the kicks. Again, they can't last, they are a melting pot medium.  So the question begs to be asked, why?

Why create something so beautiful that can not possibly last and in reality will only be appreciated by a fixed audience who can see it in the flesh... all lose their story in photographic evidence, no finger prints or tell tale markings of the creator can be seen....

Do I enjoy making things that are not permanent? Why yes of course I do, It gives me pleasure to see an item go from a blob of sugar paste into a little perfect flower, that couldn't be created by anyone else because it has my markings, has my personality, and is my creation, for someone I know, and therefore someone I have a modicum of feelings for.

Birthday Blues

Another year older.... another year none-the-wizer!!!!

What is my purpose here on this plane? erm collecting soo much fabric that our entire street can have eco-friendly insulating ...? Soo much fabric that I could keep us in cushions through here to eternity? Sooo much fabric... yeah you get the gist... 

In all honesty I don't know, I've reached supposed middle age, I don't reckon I am  middle aged, but timeline wise I am, and well what am I supposed to feel? If tired is one of the 'symptom's' then, well I have that, but that could be attributed to the four children, plus friends of children that run riot through our home at all hours, keeping us "young".., or it could be attributed to me still breast feeding our youngest, he is now just over 1 years old and still prefers to have my milk over and above any other kind of liquid. Give him a beaker of juice and he will take a mouthful, then dribble it down his front... much easier on the wash basket to have me feed him... oh and I get loads of cuddles too... ;-)

Well if truth be known, there is another year between me and middle age, but I think its going to take me that long to get used to the idea of being 40! :-(

What do you do when you are alone with a sewing machine and fabric?

Surely the answer is simple... well actually it isn't THAT simple is it?


Too much fabric, too many projects and a bedroom that doesn't know what colour it is!!!! tonight, I make pillows to go onto our bed, we already have the pillows, its just the cases that I am trying to create. One problem maintains its plaguing.. I keep sewing the Zips in the wrong way, or on the wrong side, or back to front...and now, the thread has ran out of the bobbin and I don't have any matching that will go into the bobbin and not clog up! 


hrummph!"


I am not going to give up though! oh noooo, I will of course have a few nibbles of the Easter Eggs I have stashed in the fabric and stock cupboard and then eat my way through a big bowl of cereal and full fat milk and then, AND ONLY THEN, will I attempt the unattemptable and sew the blinking Zips in the right way and create a pillow case or two that look good enough to sell and therefore are good enough to go onto our bed! ;-)


Photo's will of course follow, though right now, I'm off to eat x

Now thats stunning

Look at the work that has gone into this quilt, some of the pieces are so tiny that god only knows how this talent has learnt to piece them together. If anyone should go to quilty heaven it is this woman - Thank you for letting this piece out into the public domain, Paula. Ladies in America can see this in the flesh by visiting her exhibition at the Helfler Visiting Gallery at Endicott College-Center for the arts in Beverly, MA. Dates March 25 to June 16.. Not that I am jealous - much!!!!
(come to the UK Paula!!!! well Wales anyway x)

Kaleidoscope Quilts, one day maybe

Paula Nadelstern Well there's a talent for colour, design and geometry all in one fabulous outcome... This woman's work is truly inspirational, and one that I can only hope to attain with hard work and no children tugging at my trousers.


However, the children tugging at my trousers give me the whole reason to get up in the morning and keep going, climbing the ladder of depression. I think I'll keep the children then, would I ever have more? well actually yes I would, were I 10 years younger, fit physically and mentally and we had the money to buy a property large enough to fit a family as large as ours. That said I do know a woman who has had near 20 babies and they only have a normal 30's style semi-detached, which was a 3 bed when they bought it.... now there is an attic room, but all the same, its got to be a squeeze hasn't it? and 20? god imagine what that must do to your inners?? actually I'd rather not if I'm honest -


As for the quilting, that is one of the other reasons why I get up and go, fabric, hmmnnn its just so lovely to look at a piece of fabric and wonder what to do with it, its also a bind to then go to use it and find that you feel its too precious to use in that project! now we have a home packed with children and fabric and not enough storage space, my idea of a solution, put a sun room on the back, which would then become my work space, his indoors can then have this study as his 'work' space, and on top of the sun room, we can put some railings and make it a out door lounge for the summer months, with steps going to the garden - this also doubles up as a fire escape for the rear of the house as we don't currently have one.


People need to buy my BubbaGemz necklaces first, and the quilted items too, so come on people, I need to realise a dream here!

Liberation Round 2 Part 2

This was in fact the easiest of all the parts I have done thus far..

the inspiration came from the bottom of my celebrations bits stash, known collectively as 'crumbs' by the girls on the Liberated circuit. I already had the crumbs sewn together, that part I did yesterday whilst coaching a n other doing her cushion. The hardest part was deciding what corners to put on each block, However, once that decision was made, the rest was easy as pie...

There you have it, two liberated crumbled blocks, ready for the next instalment, can I wait? Nope, even though I have many things to complete, There is always a little time for liberation x :-)