Two more T's

Just finished these two t's for two special little people. The pixie is number three in a series of pixie type creatures that I've been playing around with and Rudolf is for an order from a crafty mama. I've actually managed to get all my intended xmas sewing done and am now contemplating making some things for me!

Rudolf and the pixies

I had a spurt of enthusiasm and got these shirts finished yesterday. The rudolf version of antler boy turned out pretty well and the pixies got the thumbs up from oldest fish. I bought the pinkish shirt a while ago but couldn't figure out what to put on it as the red capped pixie had the wrong colours to go with the shirt. Then I noticed the stack of other coloured dots that have accumulated in my cupboard and realised there was a reason I bought them! I have little dots in quite a few colours as they are just so cute and now they have a use!

It's a bit hard to see but green pixie has a little frilly lace collar that sits over her neck and looks rather fetching. We are off now to see some baby horses in a paddock down the road and then to go find some tiny buttons.

Antler boy trial 1

There wasn't much on tv tonight so I got stuck in and had a go at my first trial of antler boy who is disguised as rudolf for the purpose of me needing a christmas shirt for littlest fish and him being vaguely christmas looking with the addition of a nice red nose.

He looks quite nice with a chenille body though for non christmas versions cotton fabric would be fine too. I haven't stitched him on yet so will post another pic of the finished shirt soon. I have also been playing around with some little mushroom people and will try some appliques of them as well.

Shirts and some wee little people

Here's some pics of some things that have recently been completed, Christmas is creeping up ever so quickly so I am trying to get everything at least started so I am not sewing madly on Christmas eve!

These shirts are for a couple of boys I know and boys like monsters and robots, don't they? I hope they do as that's what I've been told (my very tomboy like girl thinks they are great, along with dinosaurs and trains) so hopefully the boys receiving the shirts like them as much as she does. (otherwise they will no longer be for the boys!)

The little gnomes have been sitting on a shelf looking at me for a while, waiting patiently to be placed ever so carefully in a box for their long trip at Christmas time to their new home. They had to be up quite high so other little people would not play with them beforehand, despite a few efforts to reach them. Hopefully Poppy Bob has their new treehouse home nearly ready for them to move into or there will be trouble of the 5 year old kind!

On another note, I went to kindy night at my little fishes kindy she is going to next year to get all the info needed for enrolment. I know she is going to love going but it is a bit sad too. I can't belive she is going to kindy already, the time has gone so quickly and she will really be grown up then. But at least there will be chickens to feed and paintings to paint and songs to sing and I will get to hear all about them when littlest fish and I pick her up at the end of each day. (That's a platypus in case you didn't know.)

Just listed some things!

I just put my first listings on madeit.com.au! After much umming and ahhing about Etsy or madeit I decided to go with the smaller local site to start with as the whole thing is a bit overwhelming. Made it is getting bigger day by day as more people check it out and it was very easy to go through the listing process.

So now I'm all excited and want to make more stuff to sell!

I have only listed a few things and will hopefully add a few more each week as I get the time to get on the computer and not have little fishes trying to 'help'.

Market round up

Well, I had my first market stall on the weekend at the baby and toddler market run by the lovely Christine. It was a bit scary setting up and wondering if anyone would like the stuff I make but I got some lovely comments and a lot of "wow, did you make these?" so my confidence got a bit of a boost. The only thing that was a bit annoying was that people seemed a bit preoccupied with looking for pre-loved goods and some commented that they didn't realise there would be new stuff there. It was mentioned on the flyers that there would be a few handmade and new product stalls but I guess people don't always read the details.

Apart from that I had a good time and got to chat with my stall neighbours who were lovely and had beautiful things to sell. I think selling online will be a good way to go in the future as it was a lot of work to get ready for the market and I can just sew at my own pace if I put things online. If there was an art and craft market in our town it would probably be worthwhile having a stall as people would know what to expect but most of them are flea market type set ups so they're not ideal for handmade stuff.

Silly me forgot to take my camera so I only have these pics that I took beforehand of some of the stuff I had.

P.S. if you like softies check out 'theneedle's' blog for some amazing creations!

Sneaky Peeks

I've been rather busy of late, last weekend was full of work and I even had to work Thursday and Friday nights (haven't done that in a while) and littlest fish and I had a lovely night on the lounge on Tuesday night as she decided she was sick and therefore could not sleep in her cot but would instead recline on me. I have managed to get a few things finished in the last few weeks and will give you a look as I like to share.

I have been a bit forgetful and am behind on my quilts of love challenge of one a month for a year so I made 2 this month and if I do 2 next month I'll be caught up again. This should probably be an ongoing thing and I will endeavour to keep it going as it's really suprising how many the hospitals need (we only have 2 in our area) as they are regularly requesting more. Makes you thankful for what you have.

I have also ticked a few xmas pressies off the list including a bag and a little needle case and made littlest fish a shirt with some babushkas and a cute little crochet flower that Aunty Jude made. (thanks Jude!) The little hair clips are the start of lots of little hair clips that I am in the process of making for the markets. I wanted some little things to have on the stall and my girls like them so I thought others might too!

Some more shirts and a funny softie

Here's some more shirts that I have been busily making, they are getting a bit addictive now. I love this deer applique that is from an ottobre pattern and Stacey actually liked it! And she has already worn this toadstool shirt that I based on Tabitha the toadstool softie. It's quite strange that she actually liked all the shirts I made her as she hasn't liked anything for ages. Maybe the 'I don't like it' phase is over? I surely hope so.

Can you guess which remote isn't real? I really hope so! I finished it the other night and have to say even Mr Fish commented on it and he NEVER says anything unless forced to (except grunting, but thats just a male thing isn't it?) So now I have to keep it safe and try to get littlest fish to not chew on it.

Some T-shirts

Here's a couple of pics of some shirts I have just done for a friend of mum's grandkids. I love the mushroom one so much I am going to make another one for one of my fishes and will probably end up making the others up again too. I really enjoyed doing the appliques as I haven't done any for ages and got a bit sick of making pants so it was nice to have a change. Am slowly getting myself ready to put some creations on Etsy and will work up the courage to do it soon. It's a bit daunting thinking about it so i'll keep not thinking about it and it will be fine!

more shirts to come soon!

T-shirt dude and some lovely wooden folk

Here is a pic of some recent crafting. The shirt is for Liam's birthday (to go with Super Liam) (Claire look away if you want to be suprised) and was inspired by the amazing Sam's shirts over at Jetta's Nest (see Blog list at side). She does marvelous shirts for boys and I need all the help I can get given I have two girls! I can't do the incredible faces on mine like she does so Buttons will have to do.

These little wooden folk came in the mail today from a store on Etsy that has a whole range of little peeps waiting to be dressed up (or left plain I guess) and our lot, I think we have about 20, are destined to become elves/gnomes to live in a treehouse that Poppy Bob is going to lovingly make for his grandkiddies for xmas! (there's no backing out now is there!) Next post will be a giveaway!

I Actually Won Something!

I entered a funkyfabrix giveaway the other week as the fabric was cute and you can't win if you are not in it!

And..... I actually won!

It is the cutest range (I think it's aimed at boys but my girls like boy stuff and play with trains and dinosaurs and love thomas) and the animals in them are super cute.

So I was very excited to get an email telling me I'd won. I haven't been in a lot of blog giveaways, mainly because I usually don't discover them til they are finished!

Now to think of something great to make!

I've been playing around with transfers and t-shirts lately and have been going through the kids books for some cute pictures to put on them. Bambi is a favourite though the story is pretty terrible and the little golden books have proven to be good sources of cuteness.

Some recent projects

These are a couple of things I have been working on lately that I thought I might post.

The first one is a skirt I made for Stace out of some super cute elephant material we got off the Stash Queen (a.k.a. Claire) and some red I had in the cupboard. I really love it and think it's great but she won't have a bar of it! She seems to be going through a stage of not liking anything new or unfamiliar and it's driving me batty! I hope she grows out of it soon as I really like making things for the girls.

The wall hanging in progress is something I've got planned for my M-I-L who has a birthday coming up. It took me a while to do the stitchery in the middle and now I've just got to finish some embroidery on the first border and slip stitch the binding on. I decided to do a sea dragon as we went on a trip to Underwater World last time we were down there visiting and she really loved them, so I thought I'd make a wall hanging to remember them.

And I have been playing around with iron on tranfer paper and came up with a cute bambi print (from a little golden book) and think I might do some more, it's really quick and easy and fun! I can picture some birthday pressies in my head.

Have also been busily sewing up chenille pants and have a pretty good stockpile now. I am keen to get back to making little things and working on whatever takes my fancy as I am now a bit sick of chenille! Am in a sewing kind of mood (not clothes sewing) so will have to see what happens.

random stuff

I got these 2 books a short while before Easter and just love them. Warm Fuzzies was an awsome score off ebay (this NEVER happens to me) that was only $10, pretty good when it's selling for 3 times that! And more softies was from the bookshop but I couldn't resist as I have bought the first softies for my lovely s-i-l and loved that too.

Just wanted to share some great books. I have also been scouring fishpond for their craft books and have made up a pretty impressive wishlist.

This is my cute little fishie number 2 who can sort of sit up now. She is not so good with the not falling sideways yet but we are working on it. For a kid that spent the first 3 months of her life in a pavlik harness (to correct her hip dysplasia) she is doing pretty well with reaching all her milestones. She may walk a little bit later than average but that's okay, more time to put everything out of reach.

These fabulous t-shirts were made by my clever s-i-l Claire who did them up for the girls at easter time. Zali got the bunny one as she can't eat choccy yet (we'll soon sort that out)

and Stace got the other 2 for her birthday. Isn't she clever! gush, gush, okay that's enough.

I joined Brown Owls a little while ago and it promted me to ask mum where all my old brownie stuff was (I knew she would have it somewhere). sure enough, it was hiding in a cupboard and i got it all out and had a look through my old handbook and all the other stuff. What memories it brought back. I'm trying to hunt down any other members that live in Mackay so we can form our own chapter and have meetings and stuff. The Melbourne girls look like they have lots of fun at their gatherings.

And Finally, this cute little pic is of a stitchery that i got from Claire's old craft book (i think it's from the 70's) that she would have found in an op shop somewhere. There is a matching boy one as well that is equally cute.