I'm back!

Hello!

I've decided to start up this blog again, as even though I'm not a housewife any more (damn work getting in the way!), I enjoy having somewhere to post photos of the crafty stuff that I've been doing.

So most recently, I've made another dress, this time from Avengers fabric. I'm planning on wearing it to Invasion on the Saturday night, as the theme is Marvel Superheroes.

Can you see the invisible zip? I'm getting pretty good at these now!

I've made quite a few other things since I last posted, so I'll try to post them when I haven't got anything else to post. Hopefully blogging again will get me motivated to do a bit more crafting too.

And to leave you with something sweet, here's a picture of a Bakewell Tart I made a few weeks ago:

Skulls and Roses.

I've made another dress! Front:

Back:

I did piping on the neck edge (my first time too!):

And I used bias binding for the bottom:

I think I need a night out in Rockworld to wear this!

Tiger, tiger, burning bright.

I made Phil a tiger shirt. The fabric is some velour that I got from ebay - horrible to work with, but Phil seems pleased with it!

Party Dress

I've finally finished my party dress - it took quite a while as I had to go out and buy some lining and net, plus a zip, and then I went to Derby for three days last week. I'm really pleased with it - I just need somewhere nice to wear it now!

I also knitted a lego man:

Graze

I don't know if anyone is reading this, but I've just signed up to a site that does healthy snacks, and if I can get my friends to sign up, they'll get a free box, and I'll get £1 off my next box :-)

This is the website, it should automatically fill in the code for you: http://www.graze.com/p/GPW4MWV

Summer dress.

I really love this pattern - it's such a flattering style. I also did my first concealed zip, although I didn't use the special foot I got, as I couldn't even get it attached properly to my machine. It's just as easy with a normal zipper foot though, and is actually easier than inserting a non-concealed zip! Now all we need is a decent summer so I can wear it!

Yet another shirt!

I'm getting quite quick at these shirts now! This one took me about a day in total to make:

I got the fabric last year from the sale bin in Dunelm. I think I paid less than £2 a meter for it, so this worked out pretty cheap. I had to go and get some matching buttons for it, as it looked strange with white buttons, but they were only 20p each.

More things.

I haven't posted for a while, so here are some things I've been doing.

This is a jacket I made, from a pattern in a Burda magazine. It's fully lined in green, although you can't really see it in these photos.

I knitted George a jacket for Christmas. I did him a hat as well, but I haven't got a photo of that.

I've been playing around with some Hama beads too:

Necklace and Earrings.

Christmas Tree!

Lots of things!

Since I haven't posted for a while, I've got quite a few things to report!

First, a wrist band I made for Pea for her birthday:

A pink scarf - it's much more sparkly than in the photo:

I set up the Mario Kart Scaletrix - great fun!!!

I finished another jumper:

I made a shirt for Ade:

And I made myself another corset:

Now I'm mostly playing Little King's Story, as Gareth lent me the game, plus next week it's the start of NaNoWriMo, so I'll be busy with that.

Does it fit? Corset does!

I finished my corset in time for the convention and wore it on the Saturday night. It's slightly too big, as when it's laced up there isn't a gap at the back, so the next one I make will be a size smaller.

The garden has been quite good - we've had some carrots and quite a lot of tomatoes, although I think I've managed to kill the mint, and the strawberries have mostly died now since we had such a rotten summer.

This was a lovely salad I made for myself last week from some roast chicken we had left over:

Today I made another beaded bracelet. I haven't put the felt backing on yet, but I'll do that tonight whilst I'm watching the soaps.

Dress finished (at last!)

I've finally finished the dress I started way back in July before I decided that I needed a different lining fabric, and then had to go back to work. Here are a couple of photos:

And here's a photo of some cookies - I made these a couple of weeks ago to take to JK and Gareth - I think they went down well! Ade also made brownies, and I made some oaty biscuit things too:

Now I'm going to get started on my corset - hopefully I'll be able to get it finished before Reunion. But not today - the Wii is calling me...

I'm back! Did you miss me?

I haven't been posting for the last month or so because I've been working! Only a short contract though, and I'm now back to being a housewife again. Last week I went to Derby for a few days, as I'd promised Max that I'd go to Drayton Manor with them, but then I started working as soon as their school holidays began! I had an excellent time though - I went to art class with Mum on Wednesday and leart to paint flowers, then on Thursday we went to the Museum of Childhood at Sudbury Hall (after spending several hours playing on the Wii with Max - it's a hard life!). Then on Friday we went to Drayton Manor. I've put some photos on Facebook here.

We finally got some ripe tomatoes:

They were very nice too - we had them with fresh basil and mozarella for a starter! There are a few more ripening up now, plus we had a couple of the beef ones with our steak on Saturday.