A holiday at Fraser Island

We just spent 6 glorious days on beautiful Fraser Island usually we would camp but being 26 weeks pregnant it was not to be so we stayed at Kingfisher Bay Resort, was great but I've come to realise we are not a resort family and really missed camping! Nuts I know.

A new bag & a dress for Zoe

I am in the mood for sewing again, yipppeeee, bout bloody time I say, it's been months since I lost my sewing mojo, well pretty much since the morning sickness kicked in I guess. Well nowI'm back and I have heaps of projects I want to accomplish.


Here is a new bag I made for myself after a trip to spotlight where I found this fabric that I completely fell in love with.

And a dress for Zoe made in the same fabrics as the skirt I made a few months ago.

yeah yeah I'm still alive...

Just not in the mood for sewing atm.
Actually today I felt like I might get my sewing mojo back soon when I spotted a fantastic nappy bag that I could easily sew myself, am thinking that might be my next project because for those of you who don't know, I'm having baby #3! very excited, even moreso now that my morning sickness has somewhat slowed down, it is no longer all day sickness, thank god, I was not coping too well at all.

Just whipped it up

I couldn't bring myself to start the housework until I made another skirt, now it's 4.30pm and time to get dinner organised, oooppsss no housework today.

Decided to jazz this one up a bit with some lace that I have had for ages, turned out great!

Ruffled Skirts for Zoe

I come across this skirt tutorial and just had to make some for Zoe, she absolutley loves the pink one and won't take it off! It was the easiest thing to make, amazing how many things you can actually make just out of rectangles.
Oh and here is a pic of the girl herself, she was in a modelling mood the other day when I had my camera out.

It's beanie time

I made this cute beanie for Zoe last night whilst watching PS I love You...was a little hard to crochet through the tears but I got there in the end, too bad it's too small for her, will have to find a baby girl to give it too.

The colours in the photo didn't turn out quite right, what looks like red is actually hot pink.

I got the pattern from here http://craftychristina.blogspot.com/2007/11/soley-granny-squares-hat-pattern.html

I'm back!

I'm still working, but I have decided I can't live without my craft, so I am making nights free to do what I love best!

In the past 2 weeks I have made 3 bags, 2 of which were gifts for my Mum and MIL for Mothers Day and ANOTHER bag for myself, will post pics later.

And I've refound my love of crochet, I'm in the process of making a beanie for Zoe and I made myself one last week.

Andddd I have developed a softie addiction and created these two cute guys, Harold and Hilda this week, can't wait to add more to the family.

And another one...

Adrian is starting to call me the bag lady, am becoming a bit obsessed with making them.
Here is another one out of the same fabric as the last one, a little zippered tote. It measures 26x26x6cm deep.
I want to come up with some great designs so I can start selling them to make some money to fund my 'habit' :)

Watch this space for my new business.....

Now I have a question, does anyone know how to put lining in when you have a zip? Is the only way to handstitch it? For the life of me I can not work it out.

Another bag

And here is a bag I made last night after Jack & Zoe went to bed, luckily they fell asleep at 7pm!

I just love this fabric and think I will be making lots and lots of things out of it.

The bag was quite simple to make after I drew up the pattern from another bag that I have.

I have sewn in a zippered pocket and a mobile phone pocket in the same fabric as the outside.

The button and loop detail

A skirt for Zoe

I just love making things for my little girl, this skirt was made using my own pattern that I copied from a skirt she had as a baby, very very simple and so quick, it only took 1/2 hour to whip up, would be even quicker if I didn't put the applique flower on it.