Polka Dots & Posies

Spotty Full Aprons

Finally got around to finishing some of the aprons I had cut out, that needed the bias binding, ribbon, ties and pockets adding.

I forgot to iron them, but these are the first batch, the others to follow are the floral with spotty pockets in reverse. Then to finish the half hostess aprons!

There are for sale in my blondedesigns shops on etsy and folksy.

And tomorrow I will upload the tutorial on the hot pot mats, as I didn't manage to get a finished photo in daylight.

Kx

SMARTIE NEEDLE POUCHES

 Eye candy needle cases

 Tangerine

 Lime

 Bubble gum pink

 Cherry Red

Lined in Amy Butler Full Moon fabrics

Edeged in my Bias binds I sell

And my covered buttons

 All bias binding is blind stitched, so no showing stitches

(I have become a bit nerdy over my bindings!)

 Plenty of room for all you needles and even pins,

now all I have to do is find all my needles around the house, as I have a great habit of dropping them down the side of the sofa and sitting on them, something I inherited off my dad who used to come home from work (he was a tailor) with a row of pins in his tie.

Happy Tuesday, linking this to Fabric Tuesday

http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/

Kx

KISS THE FROG

Freya the Frog

blondedesign

Fynn the Frog

Frodo the Frog

Have you every tried to photograph a frog, well due to their dimensions they are pretty hard to fit in a square, if you take a picture at eye level, it doesn't look like a frog, and if you take it from above it looks like a squashed frog. So during my lunch hour at work, I ran over to a field to get some daylight pictures, I may have to try again on Freya at the weekend when I can get a sheet of paper some props and take the pics in daylight. With no sunshine!

After running back to work and dumping (sorry placing) them on the side, one of the guys saw them and immediately snapped up Fynn & Frodo for his wife and mother-in law who love frogs (now I never thought I could sell many crafts at work, let alone frogs) Why;

1. Because I work with 40 men.
2. There are only 2 women (who have had tissue cases and purses).
3. Because I work with men.
4. I'm too shy about my work to show them.
5. Because I work with men.

But I have just realised I could be onto a win win situation.

1. Because men never know what to buy Wife / Girlfriend / Mother.
2. Men don't haggle over £5.00 or £6.00 being to much for a purse.
3. Because men never know what to buy Wife / Girlfriend / Mother.
4. They leave every thing to the last moment.

They are made using Alexander Henry Zoo fabric and their bellies are in Amy Butler Full Moon, Freya is now for sale on Folksy and Etsy, and will have to get busy making another Fynn & Frodo, if I have the fabric.
Kx