it took almost 10 months....

But what a masterpiece!

Toby was born on May 20th.

So sorry if i'm not around too much for awhile, but i am busy admiring my latest creation.

Booties

I haven't got a whole heap of sewing done recently, but i have managed to pick up the crochet hook and made a couple of pairs of booties.

Now just waiting for the little feet to arrive to fill them....

Photos

Just a super quick post to say check out Angela's blog, She is amazing! We had so much fun at our photo shoot yesterday.

Duckies...

I just had to show you the favors for our baby shower, i wanted to give everyone who comes a little gift (as i wasn't that thrilled about having a shower at all, but that is another story).

I came up with these:

What do you think?? 

 

Giveaway over at cherri-berri

Just a quick post to let you know about a giveaway that is happening over at cherri-berri. Cherri has been making some awesome t-shirts using stenciling, pop over and have a look, I think they are great!

Well it's the 31st.....

And did i achieve my goal?? well not quite... i was aiming for 31 Softies in 31 days. I achieved 24. 

I do plan to make the rest over the next few days, and over the long weekend the softies and i will be off on a field trip and plan on taking lots of photos, so watch this space.

finally.... the chicken

Clucky the chicken, with her chicks!

Now the pattern... after my rant the other day, i sat down and thought about the pattern some more, and honestly it wasn't the pattern, it was me.

I was making things a lot harder than it needed to be, by changing the colour of the lining of the wings for a start... it wasn't impossible, but it did involve a lot of thinking...

The other problem i had involved turning the tail and the comb... the pattern used pellon to make both of these pieces nice and fluffy, however it made turning them quite hard, i eventually removed some of the "bulk" of the pellon, which made things much easier.

Overall i think she is a pretty awesome chick!

Well you were supposed to see a chicken....

I know, i'm behind again, but i've been feeling pretty ordinary for the past few days, so i decided to take some time off and concentrate on the other masterpiece that i'm working on.

So today i was going to make a chicken and her 4 baby chicks, but the pattern and i are having issues. And i decided that i should probably just walk away until i could sit down and nut it out properly, i didn't want to end up throwing the whole thing away (and TRUST ME) i was considering it, i also don't want to end up hating sewing...

The pattern is that bad!

The train set

So this is what i've been working on for the past week... cute isn't it. I bought it as a kit from the quilt cottage in Anguston (South Australia) last year.

You have to excuse the photos, they were taken last at night.

Okay maybe not today after all...

Been busy doing stuff (equates to lounging around with tummy cramps mainly... totally normal at this stage of pregnancy!).

so TOMORROW i will put photos up... i promise!