Crafters Companion- September Project- Half yard kids cushion

I still can't believe its September, where has the year gone? Its been great making all these lovely projects as part of the Crafters Companion Inspirers Design Team. 

Anyway heres another projects for September where I could make a project of my choice. I sat and had a thought and a flick through some books and decided on making the kids Pillow pal cushion from Debbie Shore's Half yard kids book. 

Heres my result! Obviously it does take a while to make because of all the different pieces required to make your character but wouldn't this make a fab gift for a child for Christmas or Birthday.

I would rate this as an intermediate project purely because of time and the different pieces. 

I chose pink and blues as the fat quarter pack I chose to use had these colour in them. 

As usual I will post pictures and links to the products I've used. I have also used extras from my stash such as felt, toy filling, buttons and trims. 

Cotton craft co fat quarters 

Adorn it half metre fabric

Half yard kids

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!