Sleepy Sabine is ready

All the sleepy Sabines are finished! They have been stuffed and are now sitting with the pirates, bunnies and kitty cats ready to go. Now I can get back to sewing pants and the million other things I want to make.

It is littlest fishes first birthday in August and we have been finding it hard to think of something to get her as she has all her older sisters toys to play with. So I thought it would be nice to get her something a bit special instead that she can have to keep as she grows up. I found a beautiful print on Etsy by thepoppytree (don't you just love trawling through all the fab stuff on there?) that is called the story tree. it is a tree/girl thing reading a story to all the forest animals and I think it is lovely. So I am now impatiently waiting for it to arrive.

I also found a cute idea off a blog called moonstitches which is an owl banner with a letter printed on each owl to spell whatever you like (a little fishes name perhaps?) So she might get one of those made for her. it is rather difficult thinking of things that aren't toys (like we really need any more to clutter up the house) to get for little kids but I am doing my best to give handmade pressies to everyone this year and I better do the same for my kids too!

This is what I have been doing lately

Besides doing a bit of work in the garden lately, I have been getting a bit of sewing in when I can.

The Babushkas are going to be for a stall that is slowly starting to get a bit of a stockpile in readiness for the day. Stacey has one that I made a while ago for her and these are almost the same, just tweaked a bit. Her doll is called Sleepy Sabine and I was told these new ones are named that too, so there you go!

All the chenille pants have been made over the last few months and I have some more to go yet. I have been sewing some other pants from cotton fabric as well and hopefully will have a decent amount in various sizes from 00 to 3.

It is a bit scary sewing so many pairs of pants and wondering if anyone will actually buy them! Hopefully there will be some chenille lovers out there. We are getting a visit from Nanny Sylvie on Thursday and Stacey is pretty excited as seeing her other nanny again. back to the sewing machine I go!

3 little ladies, 2 card holders and 1 lovely rose.

Here's a couple of projects I have just finished. The little dolls are a stitchery I started doing and halfway through I thought they would make cute little doll fronts instead. So when everything was stitched I cut them up and backed them and voila! The pattern is one I traced off my fabric panel from Kristen Doran designs and I loved it so much I wanted to make a stitchery.

The little card holders are from a free Amy Butler pattern off her website. I made two as one of them is for a friend and I wanted to try the pattern first before I made hers up, so I got one as well. It was very easy to make and the instructions are easy to follow.

I didn't get time on the actual day but HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! to all the mamas out there.

I hope you all had a lovely day and lots of fun/relax/whatever you wished for. I got some lovely things from my girls (I took them shopping) and a brilliant card from oldest little fish. There was also a lovely rose Stace picked from nanny's garden that smelt like musk lollies.