Seal at the Ballet

There are cuddly toys all over this house and every once in a while Lizard gets really into one as a companion for a specific thing.  Right now it's a seal tsum-tsum of mine which is the only acceptable friend to take to ballet.

Normally Seal wears a 'balletard'  (Lizard's word for it) and practise skirt made of a scrap of Lizard's on kit but as they are about to perform a show and I wanted an evening of making something silly, Seal got a new outfit...

Mr Kit rather rudely (and annoyingly accurately) suggested that Seal now looks like a shuttlecock!

Seal has a white balletard, a white dress net tutu (decorated with silver glitter glue) and a 'halo' donated by Katy Page Designs.  He's now totally ready for show day!

New Cousin

Another new cousin!  So lovely to see my family grow!  As has become this year's habit, I sent a baby blanket!

 I went full on floral for this one, because I really wanted to and luckily for me my cousin liked it!

So many pretty prints!  Welcome to the world little P!  Can't wait to meet you at Christmas x

New Baby Tree Outfit!

Dear me, the summer holidays appeared and ran away with me!  I've been far too busy holidaying, day tripping and generally lazing on the sofa to have any bloggable stuff for the blog! 

However, some commissions have gone out to find new homes and so can be shown, hurrah!

This was a super fun brief!  My friend's ic group leader is expecting and as the baby has apparently been referred to as the tree of life, they wanted a tree larp costume for a 6-9 month baby (kit aged to when they might see the little one in the field!).

I found a great brown textured jersey to be the 'tree trunk' and a lovely mossy green  fleece for the main 'leaf' colour.

I made a t-shirt and leggings for the baby, to be the trunk as it were and for fun I appliqued a birds nest onto the top.

For the poncho, I cut out a load of leaf shapes from scrap fabric  and appliqued it over the fleece, then added a wooden button as a closure.

It was so fun to come up with!  I really enjoyed making this and I hope the small one enjoys wearing it!

Baby Blanket

I had a craving to make patchwork and a friend needed a blanket for a new baby in his family, so this blanket was born!

The patches are various cottons from stash.  It has a fleece back and a satin binding.

The name and duck outline are appliqued and it's quilted in the ditch.

Quite happy with how it turned out!