Coming sew soon.

Having a sew

My regular blog readers will know that a few months ago I bought myself a mini John Lewis sewing machine and many of you emailed and commented to see how it was going. Well anyway after a while I finally got it out and did something serious with it and decided on customising a top I hope in a fab colour.

The shirt was a bit like this to start with (please note not my image, but silly me didn't think to take a pic of before).

My shirt is quite a thick cotton material that had a tie at the top but kind of sat weird due to the weight of the fabric, unlike the one above. Anywho, it was a great colour and too good to give away so I though I would take the tie off and add a collar. The collar was created from an old lambs wool/angora wool top that had shrunk in the wash so it was snipped up and whizzed round the machine on a zig zag setting.

It was close to being finished, but not quite so I decided on Teasemading it up. Sami, from Teasemade very kindly created me some hand stitched buttons in a Grayson Perry fabric and matching raspberry thread. She is so super and it all matches perfectly.

Here is the final thing!

Can you see those cute little button fellas?

I should also add that for a sewing novice it was a super machine!

Ladies & gents

It's taken a while but I finally have some more ladies & gents tshirts in the shop!

Some fab things

Are still on SALE on my shop, go check them out!

In love...

...with this gorgeous, romantic shop by Sarah Culleton.

So lovely, I can't actually decided on a favourite!

Double award

I was kindly award this Kreativ Blogger award by both Edwina Simone and Crafty Jemima. Thanks guys!

Although the rules are to pass this on, I won't be since all the people I would nominate have already been awarded and therefore it can all get a bit overwhelming. So this now is dedicated to anyone who wants to be nosy :).

Ok so i'll do 14 things about me, here goes:

1. I love the Time Team. Tony Robinson is just great.

2. I believe hands say a lot about a person and I especially don't like it when people have extremely dry hands!

3. I can't stand fussy eaters. I am not fussy at all and I have even taken to peas from not refusing them even though I didn't like them.

4. I'm not a big novel reader, but I do like adventures :)

5. I have camel coloured hair. If I say it's brown I sound like an in denial ginger, if I say I'm ginger I sound pretentious. Can't win.

6. I have to have a drink of tea in the morning and at around 4 in the afternoon or else hell breaks loose.

7. My boyfriend is half Greek.

8. I've not had a filling in a tooth yet, touch wood got the dentist in May.

9. I drive a VW red Lupo.

10. I have a old fashioned Eiderdown which I have on my bed at all times, even in the summer. I am mad.

11.  For some strange reason a lot of people think my name is Lauren, especially my boyfriends friends who continue to call it me.

12. I hate wearing socks.

13. I used to be the editor of a Parish magazine.

14. I love charity shopping and have found a Hugo Boss skirt and some Ray Ban's in the past.

I hope you enjoy the silly facts about me!