Festive badges and Clutch bags.

Here are the prototypes for the school chrismas fair badges. I have been madly cutting out the bits and the only sewing involved is the nose or central button (and even the nose could be hot glued for the weanies). The eyes are made from split pins and the mouth is drawn on using a fabric marker. All the pieces are then hot glued together. The circular badges are just held together by the central button. I think that I mentioned that having done a more ambitious sewing project in the past I realised that I need to keep it simple.

I have had a lovely morning of sewing today despite the awful weather outside. I have been trying out a couple of clutch bags to go with my outfit for the wedding we are going to.

(Photos not great sorry as the light isn't good!)

The top one is from a pattern by Keyka Lou Patterns. 

The lower one is from an online pattern for a 'Gathered Clutch' by Noodlehead.

They were both really well explained patterns and made up just as expected.

I found the zip quite tricky on the gathered clutch but I really love it and am determined to get the hang of the zips with the tab ends.

With this in mind I cut out three more last night while watching Julie Walters in The Jury!!

I think that they will make lovely presents.

 

A busy couple of weeks.

I have done little sewing over the past two weeks as we are preparing for a family wedding and it is very exciting.

I did manage to sew a little lavender bag while away..

And have a stack of reindeer ready to sew into bean bags..

I have also come up with a badge for the children to make at the fair but did not manage to get a photo before the sun went down today!

Treasured finds and a peg bag lesson.

I love rooting around in charity shops and earlier in the week I found these lovely threads bundled up in a plastic bag for 50p!

I also found the square of cream fabric, cotton or cotton linen mix, I'm not sure.

Then there was a bag of these, all meticulously labelled and putting my box of unlabelled, knotted threads to shame.

And finally these beauties. Just look at the packet on the zip and the original price of the poppers!

I like to think that whoever they belonged to would be happy to see them recycled and used.

I had a friend over today who bought a sewing machine a while back and needed a few pointers, so we made peg bags because I think they are a good way to start and you end up with something useful.