A Q-snap cover

I bought my mam a Q-snap for Christmas as she admired mine so for mother's day, I made her a cover.

I made it using a free tutorial. All tutorials for this project give the same calculations for working out the measurements but when making my own a while back, I discovered it was about 1.5-2" short for my Q-snap. For my mam's I decided to lengthen it and in the end it turned out better than my first one. I might have to make a couple more.

I've gotten further on with the poppies compared to the above photo but that will be for another post.



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Teapot cosy

I've had this and another sewing project cut out for a couple of days but only got around to sewing them up yesterday morning. The other project can't be posted yet so here's what I can show you.

It's the teapot cosy from issue 57 of "Sew" magazine.

It says to use the same pattern piece for the outer fabric (they suggested cotton) and the lining, fleece recommended. My only issue with this was that once sewn together the fleece was a little bit on the bulky side compared to the outer fabric. If I was to make another I'd scale the pattern down by a small amount for the fleece and see how that works. It still fits well over the teapot.

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A crazy finish

The stitch that I was doing for my friend is finished and is part of one of my crazy challenges.

I'm sorry that I didn't take any more daily progress photos. It is from The World of Cross Stitching issue 203.

I changed the sun's face from smiley to sad as my friend was leaving work.

IHSW

Well for this IHSW I continued with the project I've been working all week. It's a cupcake design from WOXS for a friend.

As people were curious on my progress after doing some of the border I decided to take a photo every day so here we go...

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The idea of taking a photo a day (providing I stitch daily) is a good idea especially for HAED's. As looking at the progress has been great.

Blue skies

I can see the end! I've completed another section of sky. It's such a lovely day here as well, I do love to stitch in the sun. Just one more poppy head, last section of sky and the beading to do. Fingers crossed this WIP of 2 years will be finished this year.

Sadly, I won't complete the challenge of no new starts until this is finished as I have a small cross stitch to do for a friend. After those 2 are finished I think I'll make a start on the wedding sampler. 

I have more lovely fabric on the way, some for a dress and the rest for the travel duffel bag I'm itching to get started on. Just need handle fabric and the jute webbing (finding 3.5" wide jute webbing has been a bit of a pain).

Have a lovely week everyone!

IHSW

Hi everyone sorry it's a bit late but here's my progress on Trio of poppies. I've finished 2 smaller parts of the sky and have 2 large parts to finish as well as the last poppy before it's finally finished.

I look forward to seeing how everyone else got on this weekend. I hope this post turns out ok as it's my first time posting from a tablet. 

Buttercup Bag - Made by Rae

The sewing machine has been out to play!

I made the Buttercup Bag which is a free tutorial from Made by Rae. It is an adorable bag and the tutorial is easy to follow with plenty of photos including some close ups accompanied by well written instructions.

It was quite gloomy this morning so as soon as some sunshine broke free I rushed for the camera! The only thing I would change when doing this again is to make the inside pocket a bit bigger but that's just my personal preference. This was made out of 100% cotton fabric that I bought on my fabric shopping trip earlier this month. Sadly there were no labels so I can't tell you what it's called or who it is by.

This bag would make great gifts and this one has already been spoken for. I plan to make another for myself.

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