Thursday 16 December 2010

My Housemate the Craft-aphobe!!!

One of my housemate's is something of a Craft-aphobe, whilst she is brilliant at just about everything else, cooking, cleaning, sporting things, being generally lovely, etc etc etc yet, she really does not get the crafty thing, she really doesn't understand me and my other housemate who sew, crochet, knit, quilt etc...
So, when she announced that she wanted to make her Mum a Christmas present...I jumped on the chance...and she did great...she made her this brilliant jewellery roll...
Really simple....just quilted 2 pieces of fabric, using the darning foot and then between us finished it off...

We made a little roll stuffed with wadding for rings...

A felt flap to push studs through

A big pocket for larger jewellery...

Really hoping her mum likes it...I really hope she appreciates the effort Hannah put in..she did a great job, especially with the free hand quilting!!!

Friday 10 December 2010

other bits and bobs!!!

so I made myself a laptop case for my new Mac Book Pro..it is ohhh soo beautiful, so thought it needed something beautiful to protect it...what do you think?




I used fabric from the same collection for the inside so it went together really well...the quilting too ages...but looks great!!!

Inside pouch for the cleaning cloth that comes with the Mac Book Pro!!!

Tiny Little pocket for the power cable cover!!! (obsessive? yes, too much? NO!!!)
And in other projects...I have started the Christmas cards...they need finishing actually, but will have to wait...I have more pressing orders!!!
This was made using brown paper cards, strings of cotton and small pieces of Japanese masking tape folded over and cut into Bunting shapes...the cotton was then glued in place with a hot glue gun and then covered in glitter!!!


Let me know what you are planning to make for the festive season!!! I love it all...