I've spent a lot of this week making clothes for etsy, for my grandchildren and for my new great nephew.  I do enjoy making small clothes :)

But I really need to get back to my quilts, my Liberty quilt needs handquilting and my eldest son has asked for a  new quilt and so I plan on getting it done by his birthday at the end of August...that's the plan!

                         

                         

The twins love to wear skirts but can be fussy with their fabric choice. The right hand skirt below is made of vintage Laura Ashley fabric, it looks red in the photo but is actually deep pink. My daughter reminded me that I made her a skirt with wide elastic at the waist from the same fabric (I've had it years) and would I make the same for the girls. I only had enough for one skirt and so used a Liberty fabric for the other one. I had some denim and made the bottom two skirts from that...let's see if they are happy with them ;)

My daughter in SA still has baby Lilhe living with them...they are really hoping to adopt him. She asked if I would make some trousers for him, I lined these with some lovely soft vintage winsiette that I had in my stash. The weather is chilly over there at the moment. I also knitted hi. His little jacket and hat and can't wait to see him wearing them all :)

pretty skirts for little girls

We took a day trip to Marlow last week. I hadn't gone planning to buy fabric ;) but pooped into www.ladysewandsew.co.uk and bought some fabric to make a couple of little skirts for my etsy shop. I haven't put skirts in the shop before so we will see if they sell or not. 

Both of these fabrics are by Lewis & Irene, the red is called Timsbury Lane and the blue is Dulce Brasil. Both were lovely to sew with and  I will probably  buy some more from the lady sew and sew website.

 I made the red skirt first and had bought some elastic which is wider than I usually use and what a pain it was, kept folding in half as I threaded it through the waist band so I reverted to the slightly narrower one for the blue skirt which threaded and stayed flat.

Live and learn!

shorts & skirt from Laura Ashley fabric

I used the pattern book below to draw a pattern for the shorts I have made. I used a pattern for trousers and cut it down...I hope they fit. The skirt didn't need a pattern, just a long strip joined with French seams, a channel at the top for the elastic and hemmed with blind hemming stitch on the machine.

I'm now working on the clothes for my second teddy bear :)

My daughters friend in South Africa has asked me to make her twin sons a stripy beany hat each so that will be next on my list. I have no idea when I will be finishing my Ohio Star quilt!

I'm off to Devon on Sunday for a few days to hopefully finish my Mothers house and to get to visit her again :)

Girls skirts

While we were in Wales at the weekend I went to a great fabric show www.textileexpressfabrics.co.uk and bought this fabric amongst a few other items. Such a shame the shop isn't nearer....or maybe its just as well