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Good Grief! It’s November already?

The whole family was taking turns catching the cold/flu/sinus bugs. I had no bandwidth to craft, sew, or take any photos. The only thing that kept me sane was the occasional sale and convos from the Etsy shop. Hopefully, I’ll have more to share in Nov!

This Halloween, we were invited to a friend’s place for dinner and trick & treating around their neighborhood. The weather was DREARY. It rained and rained and stormed some more. But after dinner, the rain let up some and we brought the kids out for some spooky fun!

Talk about last minute ‘inspiration’, I whipped up this outfit from 12-1am Friday night. I don’t have any solid black fabric for the zig zag and had to make-do by using the reverse of a black fabric that has some grey swirls on the front. I used Therm O Web’s Strong No Sew fusible webbing and ironed the zig zag straight unto the T-shirt. Not a stitch sewn! 😀

Forward looking: I ordered a WHOLE bunch of delicious baker’s twine (in various colours!) for the holiday season and I’ve been prepping them for a secret project. More about that later! 😀


Labels of love

I have a LOOOOONG list of to-sew items: from baggies for Benji lug his toys around to stock for the shoppe. With that list in hand, I went on an online fabric spree! 😀

Yards and yards of BEAUTIFUL fabrics were delivered to our door step throughout September. Some fabrics are still in their packing boxes because I ran out of space to store them! Feeling ‘inspired’, I sewed up more crayon wallets for the shoppe. Now, I have done my share of wallet-sewing, and its on to the quilt-y projects! yaay!

Crayon Wallets

Oh! That’s really pretty…

That’s what my kind hubby said when he saw this:

Flower power!

Flower power!

Ok… you might not think much of it, or love the print (a Spotlight sale fabric that I didn’t love very much after I paid for it – yes, I’m a fickle one). BUT wait till you see the ‘BEFORE’ photo:

Burnt, horrid and thinny old cover

Burnt, horrid and thinny old cover

I was tempted to get one of the covers from Etsy, but I’m feeling a bit poor after my fabric spree recently. So, I bit the bullet and tried out this tutorial and it worked like a charm! I was debating whether to use one of my precious Amy Butler prints, but decided against it just in case I screw it all up. And as usual, when the proto-type turns out better than you expected, you regret not using a better print. However, next time I will just cut out a bigger piece of fabric and make a quick casing, instead of going through the process of pinning the old casing to the new fabrics…

So, with a new cover (and additional batting!), my ironing board takes on a new lease of life.

Mish Mash Moo-ed

The quilt & cot bumper are done, delivered and received by Mama G.

I managed to take some pictures of the QUILT, but not the bumper because I was in a rush to take up a promotion with SpeedPost that saved us SGD$50 for the express door-to-door service.

Front of quilt

Front of quilt

Back of Quilt

Back of Quilt

Quilting details

Quilting details

Waiting for pictures of the how the nursery is dressed with the quilted goodies. Can’t wait for the little one’s arrival too! 😀

Eco-friendly Gift Wrapping

One of the items that we have given up buying (or taking from the stores) is gift-wrap paper. I’m not great at gift wrapping anyway, and so this is a perfect solution for me:

Drawstring Gift Bag - Front

Drawstring Gift Bag - Front

Drawstring Gift Bag - Back

Drawstring Gift Bag - Back

As for the gift tag, I interfaced a piece of fabric and attached it to the bag with safety pins, so that this bag can be re-used over and over again by the recipient.

Fabric Gift Tag

Fabric Gift Tag

In the past, I have also used fabrics to wrap up some X’mas/Birthday love.

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