Lots of ribbons

My sister and I had decided to accessorize our living room with brown and teal, but I have been going through a green phase and wanted to add some green too. When I was out one day I saw a painting of flowers, which had teal and green flower heads. I loved it and decided that we could add green to our brown and teal bits in our flat. I went out and bought an assortment of green, teal and beige ribbons to sew onto a cushion cover to infuse the colours together. I did a plain brown cotton background and then sewed different widths, textures, and colours of ribbons across the fabric at various angles. I then sewed the length of fabric into an envelope style cushion cover. Mar 2010

Another udder

I grew up living in hand knitted cardies that my nan had made. So when it came round to her 80th birthday I decided to make her a needle udder to store the many needles that she has. I made it slightly smaller than my own one since she only uses short needles these days. She was very pleased with it, especially because her old storage case has recently broken and she said she couldn’t find a nice new one anywhere. Mar 2010

My first order

One day my 4-year-old niece came over and saw that I had a book about making skirts that I had borrowed from the library. She proceeded to look through the book and put in an order for the skirt she would like. She asked for a red skirt with flowers on, and went on to point out a few styles in the book that she liked. Since her birthday was coming up I decided I would try to make the desired skirt. Luckily I already had some red, flowery fabric. I had also seen a simple child’s skirt in a sewing magazine I had. The skirt wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do so I took a look and then started to make it up as I went a long. It was pretty basic to make and then I just added a belt and belt loops to add some more detail. The green parts are from the lining of a jacket I took apart since I loved the colour but hadn't worn it for ages because the style didn't look right on me. Mar 2010