Magpie Lovely Patterns Guest Giveaway

Magpie Lovely Patterns Guest Giveaway

Who doesn't love a good give away....well there is a great one over at www.grosgrainfabulous.blog spot. A $50 gift card to spend in Magpie Lovelys online shop. Go check it out and see if you cant win yourself something fabulous!

2010 XMAS STOCKING WORKSHOP

Stitchin Kitchen

Xmas Stocking Workshop

at

Pots of Art

Monday 8th November

10am-12pm & 1pm - 3pm & 4pm-6pm.

Come and sew your own Xmas stocking with Stitchin Kitchens 2hr workshops.

£14 per stocking. All materials inc. No sewing experience needed.

Choose your stocking style

- FAIRY - ELF - TRADITIONAL -

Choose your fabrics and color

-TOFFEE - PINK - GREY- APPLE - SKY BLUE -PLUM - SNOWWHITE-

Decorate til you pop

-APPLIQUE - BUTTON - RIBBONWORK- LETTERING - EMBROIDERY-

To book call 07821319131 or click contact link at top of page

or pots of art 01462420265 -info@potsofart.com

Hi there,

well its all been very xmasy here in the studio, not so much ho ho ho as sew sew sew. I know that isnt really very funny at all but Ive been busy making stockings so you have to excuse me ! So the POTS OF ART XMAS STOCKING WORKSHOP is all set for the 8th november . With three time slots : 10 AM -12 PM \ 1 PM- 3 PM \ 4 PM - 6 PM.

This should be a fun workshop with no sewing experience needed. Just a fun workshop with cute original stockings to take home. Gotta be better than shop bought wouldnt you agree. You can choose between three styles of stocking, ELF - FAIRY - TRADITIONAL and 7 lovely colors of fabric & felt. Come make one for yourself or as a pressie for someone. There will be lots of hands on help to show you how to embroider, transfer any drawn ideas you have to the fabric, create designs and letters and names in ribbon, make buttons, pompoms, flowers, leaves, xmas puddings.......Any way here are the stockings ive made with just a few decorative ideas to kick start your own decorative designs or for you to follow.........

ELF STOCKING - heavy boot like and perfect for the fellas

FAIRY STOCKING - long elegant boot for the ladieeeeeeesss

TRADITIONAL STOCKING - classic shape with max present packing space

MAKING LETTERS WITH RIBBON

MAKING LETTERS WITH EMBROIDERY

MAKING LETTERS IN APPLIQUE

STITCHING
















BUTTONS, POM POMS, FLOWERS, LEAVES, PUDDINGS

GROSSGRAINFABULOUS GIVE AWAY

there is a great give away over at www.grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com for a real of your own named ribbon to turn into labels or present wrapping or what ever takes your fancy. I cant manage to get my google account to create a proper link to the site, so if any one has any tech advice please feel free to shout out.
Any way lovely fashion and dressmaking site GROSGRAINFABULOUS, she is really creative and prolific, her passion is inspiring. If this site doesnt get you going to make or remake over something you already own then nothing will. go give it a look.Why is it the american sites are the only ones with any va va voooooooooom? ? love it anyway.

BABY STITCHING

Ok, so while my little girl was poorly last week we decided to do a little stitching and designing. I know shes my own flesh and blood an all and so its hard to not be biased but i thought what she came up with was fantastic. Not in a fantastic 'I want to wear that' type thing but a fantastic, shes only just four and she is actually sewing type thing ! I cant work out if she should be able to sew at 4? should she ? I couldnt. I have never sewn with her but I thought if I called it designing she would take more of an interest. So we took an old tea shirt and she was set loose to do what she wanted with it with buttons and thread.

I told her to draw her design on a piece of paper first and then we could copy it on to the tee shirt. So she drew this below, I know its hard to see in the photos but its diagonal line (These always make an entrance when she draws, what does that mean????) and the bumps above and below are mountains .

I copied it on to the tee shirt for her in pencil and she started stitching along the line. I told her its little stitches underneath and far away stitched on top she was off and running. I really thought that we would be done before the needle was even threaded and she would say the usual ' ive had enough xxxxxx now mummy' and I could go and have a cup of tea but no, she got right on with the sewing. She sewd the whole line , by herself, by herself! I know im overly impressed but go with it for a while will you , she could be my best student so far! certainly the smallest.

after the line was done she had had enough and wanted to design her buttons, so thats what she did. I glued them she stuck em..











SO lovely to just watch her placing them , looking at them, changing her mind , placing them again. I was in awe really she seamed to be genuinly enjoing it , lost in it even. lovely. But then she is lovely, well most of the time.......xxxxxxxxx