Crafters companion Design team project- December Christmas project

Today I am going to share with you what I made for Crafters companion for my December project. The theme I had was a christmas project of my choice.

My first ideas brought me straight to Debbie Shore's half yard Christmas book. I wanted to make something that you could put a gift into and decided on the christmas sack.

I wanted something that would look very rustic and traditional and knew I wanted to use hessian straight away. Although they don't sell this on the Crafters Companion website I bought mine from a local fabric shop and it is easily available online.

For the appliqué present on the front I followed the instructions in the book and used a Christmas fat quarter bundle which I will list below. I also used this bundle for the lining which actually shows through like a binding at the top as you can see in the photo.

For my embellishments I used lace to tie it up which is what I had in my stash and then I used red and white stripe ribbon from my local fabric shop.

I loved the way this turned out, it is exactly what I pictured in my head.

Don't forget this doesn't just have to be a Christmas project. Use other fabrics to make a present sack for a birthday gift or even valentines day since that's only just around the corner.

Happy sewing!


They don't seem to have the christmas fat quarters on the website anymore but they have lots of others to choose from how about this one for a birthday sack instead.

celebration fat quarters

Half yard Christmas

Crafters Companion November Project- Christmas Tree skirt

Hi Everyone Since today is the 1st of December I thought I would do my first Christmas post!

For november my other Project for Crafters Companion was something from Debbie Shore's Half yard Christmas. I decided to make the tree skirt as this was the first thing to stand out to me when flicking through the book.

One of the things I like most about this book is that some of the projects could be changed for projects any time of the year and not just christmas. Take the felt gift bags as example. These could be any colour and would make a great Gift bag for birthdays.

For this particular tree skirt I used the Threaders Christmas fat quarter bundle. I Adore this bundle. I love the colours, so bright and festive. I love that there is still the Green that you would associate with Christmas but other bright and fun colours too which I think is very different to some of the more traditional Christmas fabric.

The pattern is very easy to follow. It tells you how to make the triangle template that make up your pieces.

What I would say is that I did the right size triangle and the right amount of triangles but it seems to make it too big and it ended up overlapping, I wasn't too fussed about this I added my buttons for decoration and didn't add the loops as they weren't necessary.

I hope you like my tree skirt and that it inspirers you to have a go at making your own Christmas decorations. Half yard Christmas is a fantastic book if your stuck for ideas.

Click on the images below and they will take you to the Crafters Companion website to buy them.

Happy sewing!

Half Yard Christmas by Debbie Shore

 9 Piece Fat Quarter Bundle - Christmas Collection

Crafters Companion- July- Extra Project- Wine Bottle Holder

Because I love sewing! I decided I was going to make a few extra projects for July. I decided to make a project out of sew inspire issue 4. There is so many projects in there and it was hard to chooses which one I wanted to make. I decided to go with the wine bottle holder and make it very summery.

I used fabric I had left over from The cotton craft co pastel patchwork pink fat quarters and some wadding I had lying around. 

I also Used my Debbie Shore heart frame die to put some appliqué on the bottom.

This project was quick and easy, I would say the hardest part was the binding around the top.

I love how it turned out and love that the fabrics I used give it a lovely summery theme!

The cotton craft co pastel patchwork pink fat quarters 

Debbie Shore fabric dies heart frame

More fabric shopping

Today me and my mum went fabric shopping at oh sew sweet shop again but this time at their Wombwell shop.

I went knowing exactly what I wanted to make so that I knew how much fabric was needed.

I am wanting to have a go at making the sew together bags that seem to be very popular within the sewing world.

My first choice was the beautiful metalic butterfly fabric in the first picture, this is for the outer of the bag,  I then chose three contrasting colours in a print but as you can see they are all the same print.

I then didn't know what to choose for another sew together bag as I was spoiled for choice but as I was at the cutting table I saw some fabric that they had just got in and they where cutting them into fat quarters. The fabric is by Lewis and Irene and as you can see in the second and third picture they have a Chinese new year theme to them which I thought was different and I adore the fabric with the pandas on.

Lastly, I needed interfacing and was shown a new interfacing that has diagonal quilting lines on as a guide for quilting so I thought I could quilt the outer of my bags !

So that was all I bought today but I know I will be going back for more fabric very soon. Keep popping back to my blog as I will most deffinatly be blogging about my sew together bags.

If you would like to check out oh sew sweet shop please find their online shop below.

www.ohsewsweetshop.co.uk

Fabric shopping

On Tuesday night I did a bit of fabric shopping at oh sew sweet shop in Mapplewell I went in for some fat quarters with no projects in mind but so I had some fabric in when I had a project to make. I got 6 fat quarters and some fabric for a bag I decided to make so that's what the linen is for and the green spot is going to be my lining.

I will be blogging about what I make with these fabrics so you can see them transformed into projects.

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!