Some more sewing stuff....

I just made this bag for a friend who is going to a baby shower and wanted to get a practical, yet funky gift. She liked my bag that lugs all the kids stuff around so we raided my stash and got sewing! The pattern is called Quilters Carry All by Blue Willow Designs, and even though it is designed as a quilters bag it makes a great nappy bag with all the pockets it has. There's a bit of binding involved and I found that it was pretty easy to follow the instructions even though we changed a few things. It came out looking funky and nothing like a quilters carry bag! I just hope the soon to be mum likes it!

Here's some pics of my lovely new sewing machine cover that was mentioned with the overlocker cover last post. I bought some gorgeous gnome and mushroom fabric a while ago and have not been game enough to cut it up, until I thought it would be awsome as a machine cover so I could see the gnomes all the time! Now I get to gaze at it everyday and see all the cute gnomes working hard. (except the one having a snooze!)

Let the sewing begin!

Here's a pic of some table runners I've just finished for a few birthday pressies. Mum taught me a way of slashing squares of fabric to make blocks up (like stack and slash) and we had a mini tutorial/sewing day to make them up! And I even learnt a new way to put the binding on which means no more slipstitching the back!

Okay, so I have actually done some sewing lately, it's too hot to do much else at the moment.

I saw some really cute pincushions while scrolling through Whipup the other day and thought I might like to make one! It was very easy as all you need is a teacup (or other cute thing), some fabric and some wadding and glue. I added the mushroom and hedgie for a bit of cuteness.

What do you get when you have a whole heap of little squares sewn together and some wood grain fabric?

A cover for your overlocker of course!

I made the sewing machine cover (with the gnomes on the front) from the tutorial on the Spool website and figured the overlocker shouldn't miss out. I just measured the overlocker and adjusted the pattern pieces to fit (apparently there are not many overlockers which are the same size, they are all different!)

I thought it might be nice to make a patchwork cover so I made enough squares to cover the pattern and then sewed them together and cut the pattern from the patchworked fabric.

I might make myself a table runner now, I quite liked sewing them!