Galaxy Dress

It was my Granddaughter's third birthday so I made her a dress with matching bag and also a cake. She chose the theme of space and I found this lovely rainbow galaxy fabric. I attached some metallic ric-rac trim at the waist.

I also made a bag with the spare fabric.

The bag is reversible and has a silver metallic fabric inside.

Silly me didn't measure her as I wanted it to be a surprise and it was a last minute job. I assumed a pattern for age 3-4 would fit her but I'm afraid it is on the tight side and also has a big neck. It is also too long but that doesn't matter. Still she wore it for her birthday party but I doubt it will be worn again.

Watercolour Sketches, Snowman Sculpture and Patchwork Bag

Doodlewash

Peppermint, Ribbon, Cookies

Snowman

I based the above painting on this snowman I made with Sculpturemold Modeling Compound. I made his hat from cardboard which I covered in paper. The snowman was painted with gesso and acrylics for the nose, the hat with acrylics. I used pins for the mouth and buttons, google eyes and a piece of scrap fabric for the scarf. I forgot to give him arms.

And I have another patchwork bag made from scraps. The patchwork was all hand stitched but the bag was put together including a lining with the aid of a sewing machine.

It's Paint Party Friday!

 

Swatch Bag, Doodlewash and Poppy

Another bag. This one is made from the fabric swatches of my designs printed by Spoonflower.

Poppy Seed Heads

Doodlewash

Stag

Pine cones

Bicycle

Soup

Cityscape

Hiking and Owl

 

Patchwork Bag, Watercolours and Digital Paintings

I hand stitched the strips from fabric scraps but used the machine to sew it all together including a lining.

Doodlewash Watercolour Paintings

This one is for the prompt chocolate, so rather than do a bar or something I thought I would do chocolate mice

Cozy

I saw a lot of swans yesterday but non of them were wearing a scarf and hat.

Digital Drawings

It's Friday so that means it is

 

Hexie Bag and Gelli Prints

First of all I finished the second hexie bag. All the hexagonal patches were stitched by hand, some not very neatly unfortunately. The first bag can be seen here.

I've also been doing some Gelli prints with my new acrylic paints.

I quite like this one but I thought I would go over it anyway.

I liked the colours on this but went over it with more prints until it turned out like this. You cannot see the first layer very well now.

I also did some prints directly into a flower book

This were not as successful I think

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Patchwork Bag, Watercolour Paintings and Card

Remember the pile of hexies I made? Well I've put them to good use and made a bag. I made it up as I went along so it's not perfect. By the way when I originally showed the hexies I said I made them on an evening while watching TV, I didn't mean one evening but many evenings.

I've been practicing more serious watercolours by copying from a book.

These were painted on loose pieces of watercolour paper. I'm not so keen on the flower.

It's my son's and his wife third wedding anniversary and as I couldn't go out to the shops I made them a card. The third anniversary is leather so I cut two hearts from leather. I used the brown card as that is what was used for their wedding invitations and I thought it would be a nice memory.

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Sewing

These are some items I made last year which I never told you about.

A crazy patchwork peg bag made from vintage fabrics with a long handle so that you can slip it over your shoulder while pegging.

I made two tote type bags out of some upholstery fabric I had in my drawer which will come in handy now that we have the bag charge in the shops.

I've not lined the bags as it is quite a thick material and its a nice yellow on the underside.

One is quite tall and slender the other is not as tall but wider.

The tissue holder was made from a fabric swatch from Woven Monkey UK