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Js Week.





 

Yesterday I found this super gorgeous Peter Rabbit panel.  Our friend had a baby last year and has a whole Peter Rabbit theme going on.  When I stumbled across this panel, I couldn't leave it there.

I reckon i'll turn it into a wall hanging, back it and pad it and make a pocket for a rod at the back or something.  But thats months away, so hopefully I will have time :)



 

 

How cute is it?!

 

 

 

A friend had a rockabilly dance performance last week and I offered to make her a skirt to fit the part.

I didn't turn out as good as I was wanted, it was a very rushed job and was started the night before.

 

 

 

 

Long story short, she didn't end up wearing it, only because she wouldn't have felt comfortable in the bright blue gingham. So now its hanging in the spare bedroom wardrobe...

 

 

 

  Another friend of mine, her little fella is having his 1st birthday this month and with some of the blue gingham scraps, I sewn up a little pair of rompers for him.  The pattern is generally a baggy fit from what I can tell, and I had to make the pattern smaller to a size one, but they still look big for a 1 year old.  I don't know, but he'll grow into them.

 

They were real quick to make and are very sweet, love the cute little pockets.

 



 Cutest buttons ever - APPLES!!!

 

 

J. x

Thank You Post Man!

 

Ooo! So this week we received a very, VERY exciting parcel in the mail!!!

As we said a couple posts ago - We are going to enter the Tessuti Fabric Challenge, you can read our post here.

 

 

Our parcel that was soooo beautifully wrapped. LOVE the pattern paper and ribbon with "Tessuti" printed across it.



Attached was an awesome postcard with a personal message on the back.

Such a cute thing to do!

 

The photos of this fabric really don't show how beautiful it really is.

It is soooo soft but has a wonderful texture. Its gorgeous.

When Tessuti announced this exciting competition, they also took it down to half price. So its now down to $12m.  If you want to join in the fun and have a go at winning $1000, then buy some fabric quick :)

 

 

 

We can not wait to start getting creative!!! A few designs in mind ... but you'll have to stay tuned.

 

 

 

Just before we sign off, the above photo is the sticker they had on the post bag.

"If premises unattended, leave in a secure location out of the weather"

Never seen a postage message like this, but its AMAZING.  Because the day it was delivered, it was raining hard and the 'premises was unattended'. It wasn't at the front door, it was sitting on the back deck, right away from the rain. Thank You very much Postman. We love you!

 

 

 

 

 

L. & J. xx

Wordless Wednesday | CROCHET

Tessuti Challenge

Ok so I'm sitting here having coffee going over ideas for an outfit. We decided last week that we were going to enter the Tessuti GRIDLOCK challenge.

At the moment Tessuti have a competition going where we can design and make an outfit out of their new "gridlock" fabric. So far I've done a bunch of designs that we just weren't 100% on but after a lengthy discussion with J I think we have decided what were doing...it's a super cute idea and we'll share it very soon ;P...as soon as iv drawn it up



Here's two photos of the fabric, it looks to have brilliant texture to it which will be great to work with, also I love the shade of blue that has been used...the fabric screams winter to us

L. X

1940's Sewing Challenge | Construction

 

I'll start of saying Sorry for the poor quality of photos.

 

So the pattern pieces were made, checked, double checked and triple checked.

It was then time to boldly cut the pieces out of the mustard fabric we decided on.

 

I stitched my little heart out and here is what we have so far...

 

 

Front on view of half the skirt part.  Loving how its sticking out, worked out very nicely.

 

 

 

Now this photo is of the inside of the pocket area and really don't like that the seam is very visible.

After a long think we came up with 'making a feature' out of it, by adding a very small strip of fabric between the seams.

 

 

 

This is a horrible close up of the fabric between the pocket seam.  You can't really tell, but its the pale floral fabric we will eventually make the belt out of.

Its not sitting right because it needs a really good press!

 

 

 

 

The top half is very close to being finished now.  (This photo is a few days old).

I didn't line the whole dress and didn't intend to from the start.  But as it started to form, I really didn't like the gathering areas being seen on the inside.  So I cut out an extra 'triangle' piece and two more front shoulder pieces.  So I'm not sure if you'd call them lining pieces or not, but in my opinion it looks a lot cleaner.

 

 

 

I was "umm-ing and ahh-ing", about putting this last photo up of it all pinned to the "Helper", but I'm just so excited. 

Ahhhhh it's nearly an actual dress Yaaay :)

 

More Updates and photos very soon.

Happy Stitching!

 

 

 

 

J. x

Wordless Wednesday | LACE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. x