Meet Jock

 

Jock is a little softy about 4" tall.
He has a pocket on the back of him that I intend to put some money in before he is given as a present.

 I have made these before here , and I first saw the idea over at Molly Chicken  where she made a hedgehog in a similar way.
It kind of makes giving teenagers money a bit more exciting (well it does for me anyway)!

 

 

Jock and his favourite tipple (which won't be included in the present)!!

Happy weekend.

More pressies

Another busy week and luckily a bit of time for sewing.

 

I have made quite a few grain bags over the years both as presents and for us too.

Sometimes I just sew a bag out of cord or other strong fabric, fill it with grain and sew it up.

 

At other times, usually if it's for someone else, I use this pattern from Sew Mama Sew, as I did for

this one. The only difference is that I use wheat instead of rice.

 

I also finished some pink bunting for a 'box of pink' .. 

 

 

And finally a little neck purse.. 

 

 

Off to do some more.

Happy weekend.

Pressies.

Lots of rain and time indoors to make pressies.

 

Firstly a tea cosy, with applique detail from Poppy Treffry's book

 (she shows coffee pot and egg cup cosies in the book but it's the same idea).

 

Thistle pin cushion..

 

 

Tartan mobile phone case..

 

 

Owl from pattern I bought from Retro Mama's shop..

 

 

 

Pictures not great as I can't get outside in this weather.

Bunting and grain bags to come.

 

Just hoping the recipients don't look at this!!

(And if they do they will just have to guess which is for them)!

Rainbow Pencil Roll

I wanted to make my neice a pencil roll and decided to match the pockets to the pencils as this just appeals to me and gave me a chance to delve through my ever increasing box of scraps.

 

On the reverse I had another go at an idea from the Poppy Treffry book, Free and Easy Stitch Style. This time I tried the butterfly.

I have now found an embroidery hoop and used this to hold the background fabric while appliqueing the butterfly with free machine embroidery.

If I'm honest, the first pair of lower wings were snipped off and redone, as they ended up too far away from the others, but I don't think it really shows!!

 

(Strategically placed bit of leaf covers hand embroidered name!)

 

 

The technique is alot of fun and is quite quick which is always a bonus.

I am already planning the next present..

 

Hellebores and Horner.

Hi.

I spent last weekend tidying my sewing space and it took longer than expected!

I am back now and it is a beautiful sunny spring day here.

I inherited quite a few hellebore plants in our garden and decided to put them all together under the Ash tree. They look so unexciting from above..

But underneath are hidden little gems..

I have just had a delivery of some fabric from Gone to Earth. It arrived very quickly and unfortunately the shirt pattern (ordered from another shop) took a bit longer so I am having to be patient.

The fabric is by Anna Maria Horner and I am really pleased with it.

Innocent crush First Impressions Fruit in cotton on the right, and Little Folks Voile Diamond mine Sky on the left. Shirts to follow!

I have jsut finished a couple of presents, another gathered clutch (pattern by Noodlehead here) although this one is a tad wonky but the recipient won't mind!

And a glasses case with birds..

Happy weekend.