Fabric Shopping At oh sew sweet shop

Today I visited the new oh sew sweet shop in Wombwell which they have also made into a coffee shop.

This is just a quick post to show what I've bought for my next projects.

The first two fabrics I bought half a metre each of I'm not sure what I'm going to make yet but I just loved the bright pink and yellow colours.

The next two are these lovely linen fabrics that I have got for a bag class I am going to at oh sew sweet shop on the 28th June I'm really excited and love the fabrics I have choose. I wanted denim blue colours so I could use the bag when I wear my jeans. The heat fabric is my main fabric and the dotty is going to be my contrast. I will definitely show you how I got on and reveal the finished bag.

Told you this would be a quick post but I am going to be doing another one showing some of what I've been making recently.

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My new Debbie shore books

Hi everyone today I'm going to show you some new sewing books I have recently purchased since lately I've been getting a few as I feel they are the best source of inspiration when it comes to sewing.

All three books are by Debbie shore, I love watching Debbie's YouTube videos and watching her on create and craft so new I would love her books. I wasn't wrong all three books are fantastic.

The first book is half yard heaven. The idea behind the book is that they are easy projects suitable for the beginner (which doesn't mean the more experienced sewer won't enjoy these because I do) the projects are also made to use half a metre of fabric or less. The projects in here are anything from aprons, oven gloves, headbands, bags, sewing machine covers and much more.

The second book is the follow on to the first, half yard home this book is the same concept but the projects inside are all for your home so there's tea cosy, coasters, cushions, table runners to name a few. There was a few projects I  here I felt they covered in the first one for example there's another tea cosy project like the first but this wouldn't put me off having both books.

Lastly, the book sew useful. Projects that show you how to make storage solutions for your home. I think j this might be my favourite just because the ideas inside really are useful. These include, baskets,  drawer liners and the wonderful craft caddy shown on the front of the book. 

So if your looking for some inspirational sewing books these really are worth buying I only paid £6.99 for the first 2 and only £4.99 for the last one on amazon so the value you are getting really is fantastic.

How to make your own Sewing Projects Folder

Todays post is all about gathering sewing tutorials from off the internet or even in magazines and compiling them into a folder and organising them into catagories so you have somewhere to look when your lacking inspiration. 




First off your going to need a folder/binder. I believe mine is from paperchase a while back now but theres always loads of pretty ones you can get. You could even buy a plan one and decorate it yourself. 

Then you want to start getting your tutorials together whether its something you have seen online and you print it off or something you have tore out of a magazine, it could even just be picture of something you would like to remind yourself to make. 

I then sorted out mine into categories went into a word document and made some title pages so I could organise behind them. My categories are bags, accessories, homewares, Fat quarter and scrap projects and christmas. It all depends on what you have and you can always add as you go along. 

It's as easy as that but thats how I organise my inspiration. 

Starting to Make Tilda Dolls - What i've Bought

Hi, After saying I was going to blog regular after my last post I haven't but this time i'm determined.

Today I am going to show you the things that I have bought to start making Tilda dolls or Tilda style dolls.  I have almost finished making my first one and I am really pleased with the outcome and will share with you all when It's done.

Firstly, the fabric which I have bought from Oh sew sweet shop in mapplewell, Barnsley.

 The main fabric which will be used for the dolls is linen, this is a reallygood quality linen and so easy to work with and I have used this particular linen on my bags too.

I then chose the material that would be used for the clothing. I chose a main fabric then chose a contrast fabric to go with it and as you can see in the photo I have 3 sets. I really love the prints of these fabrics and even though they aren't Tilda materials they are very much Tilda inspired.

I then bought some freezer paper and even though this is not an essential part of sewing Tilda dolls it is very helpfull, it allows you to trace your patterns and then you can iron the freezer paper onto your fabric so you dont have to use pins. This is also from Oh sew sweet shop and it was £6.75 for about 13 meteres and once you trace your patterns they can be used around 4-5 times.

Last but not least and probably a really important part is the books with the patterns in. The first one is Tilda's spring ideas, this was given to me I was then inspired after looking at that to go buy another one, I chose Tilda studio as it seemed to be one of the bigger Tilda books. The good things about Tilda books is that it doesnt just have patterns for the dolls but has patterns for bgas, cushions, homewares and much more. I think I will be deffinatly ordering more books, there are quite a few to collect.

 So that's my post today I will be deffinatly posting tomorrow!

My vintage button collection and storage

As I have my own businuss in making handmade bags, homewares etc I am always looking at ways to make my products different and stand out. I have always loved vintage fashion since studying fashion at college and fashion history was one of our subjects.

Anyway, I am always having to buy buttons I use them on all my bags and I use them for cushions it gets a bit annoying having to go into town just to get a button to match a certain item. Me and my Dad started to look for buttons on Ebay so I could have and collection at home so I could look for a certain  button when needed. This is when we stumbled upon vintage  buttons in large collections and in vintage tins. I found one that i loved that had had a really good selection we had to bid and it was against quite a few people but we won! (It also came with some vintage thread, hooks and eyes and snap fastners)

The parcel came on Friday I was so excited and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was packaged it made it all the more better. All the buttons had been organised into colour categories with smaller buttons icon to plastic bags and then they where all In leopard print paper bags! Everything was then placed in a lovely perfume box.

To store my buttons I wanted something where I could sort them into colour categories and have enough room in each section to move them around so I could see them. I was looking in the garage when I spotted this little tool box, the trays fan out its just what I wanted.

I hope you liked this post it's my first one I will be posting lots of different types of posts, more on vintage buttons too as I have some more on their way to me.

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