My ninth week of #sundaysevens, a blog series that you can get involved with! Just choose 7 photos to represent your week! Easy peasy!
I’m a little late with posting this week as I was DETERMINED to get No.7 finished!
1. Sunday dinner. Finally found a joint of meat that we are happy with…and stuffing! It’s not Paxo though!
Continue reading ➞ Sunday Sevens #9
A lot of my sewing at the moment hasn’t been for me. I haven’t made a garment for myself since the vintage dresses and the vintage pledge I made back in August! I bought quite a few vintage patterns to have a go at but unfortunately other projects have taken over and they have been sat in a drawer for a while. I have decided that I would like to make something for myself once per week. Last week I made the cute little bag, but it doesn’t really fit into the ‘clothing’ category!
The pattern that I pulled out this week was the Simplicity 8830, published in 1970. A simple one for the vintage pattern pledge! The trousers and skirt don’t really appeal to me that much but I liked the look of the floaty v-neck top. This pattern is a size 12. According to the measurements on the pattern, I would need a size 16. However, when I made the last vintage pattern bigger to suit my measurements, it actually turned out to be far too big. I took a risk with this one and made a straight cut size 12 without any pattern adjusting 
Continue reading ➞ Something for me 🙂
Wow! I can’t believe that this is week 7 already! If you are reading this for the first time, Sunday Sevens is a blog series where you can showcase a photo from each day of your week on your blog or other social media platforms. If you want to get involved, grab the image below to pop into your sidebar and link it back to me. I put all posts onto a Pinterest board, which is here.
1. Picnic by the lake
Continue reading ➞ Sunday Sevens #7
It’s that time of the week again people! Sunday Sevens – seven photos taken daily, of my week. Bits of my life that I would like to share with whoever reads this post!
I’ve really enjoyed my week this week. I spent a couple of days focused on some paperwork that needed to be done, but I had been putting it off for a while. Once I had completed it, I felt like a weight had been lifted…so a craft filled week was had!
1. Easy access cocoa powder. Cocoa powder in the UK tends to come in a cardboard cylinder shaped container and has a very awkward foil seal on it, which I have never managed to open without a puff of cocoa entering the air! It was a joy to open this stuff!
Continue reading ➞ Sunday Sevens #6
I like sewing things for babies and children. Toys and teddies are sweet. Clothes and accessories are nice to work with as there isn’t loads of material trailing on the floor. That is about as far as I will stretch at moment with anything to do with babies; I know quite a few people who have had babies recently or are pregnant at the moment…that’s fine with me! I will stick to the sewing for now 😀
We had a couple of friends in mind who we would have liked to send a baby gift. I wanted to make something different so referred to Pinterest for part of my project. I found a link to Megan at The Quilt Story where a cute little outfit is made using two separate tutorials; one for the dress and one for the nappy cover. When explaining this project to my Mum, I used the American word ‘diaper’ …she laughed and said I was becoming all American already!
They were nice to sew as nothing seemed too much trouble. I did a double fold on the hems and inserted elastic where necessary. The trickiest part was folding and sewing the hems on the legs of the nappy cover due to them being curved. There are a couple of folds where the excess fabric gathered but once they bunch up with the elastic, they are hardly noticeable 🙂
Continue reading ➞ Blooming Babies
We do have a good amount of storage in the bathroom; shelves in the bath/shower area, cupboards under the sinks and shelving for towels etc. As I like everything to be hidden, I didn’t love having our towels and bathroom bin being on show so the second part of our little bathroom makeover involves the creation of shelving ‘curtains‘. ‘Curtains‘ being italicised as they aren’t really curtains, they don’t open but they do the same job as a curtain!
Continue reading ➞ Bathroom Makeover Part 2 – Shelving Curtains
threads + bobbins 