Faux Enamel Headband

I made white faux enamel flowers and designed a headband of my own!

Isn't it pretty?  I love how delicate it is!  It's a wire headband shape, which I formed by bending wire on my head and then wrapping it in ribbon.  The ends are loops and a ribbon threads through them and ties underneath my hair.

This is it on my hair - I tied it on at 10am and it was still in place at 2am the next day!

This photo is by the insanely talented Jonathan Habens and you can see how it sparkles in my hair!

 Another Jon Habens pic, just because! 

Unicorn Hood

I made this for a friend's birthday - as you can see, she was quite pleased with it!

It's Choly Knight's free unicorn hood pattern and I made it in pink fleece with a white t-shirting lining, white buttons and purple and yellow flowers to decorate.

I really like how it turned out and one of my rainy day ideas is to adapt it and make myself a deer hood!

Mouse Hoodie!

I made another hoodie, the sister of the dino hoodie!

This onw is grey fleece and grey t-shirting and I added tiny pink and grey mouse ears to the hood!

And of course, a teeny tiny mouse embroidery!

Dino Hoodie

I made some small adorable gifts and I love this hoodie so much!

It's green fleece with grey t-shirting for the ribbing and a little embroidered dino patch!

And of course, dino spikes all down the back!

I hope the recipient likes it as much as I do and don't worry, a grown up size one is in the works!

A New Evening Gown

I (very occasionally) have posh dinners to attend in London!  And I wanted a chiffon overlay dress, so I decided to make one to wear to the next dinner!

 The pattern is Simplicity 2398 and I added the chiffon skirt overlay by making an extra skirt front from chiffon then roll hemmed  it down the centre!

 Excuse all the selfies, I made this in quite a rush and failed to actually model at any point!  The bodice has a lace applique fan on it as I was attending a Fanmakers event!

This is me on our hotel room just before dinner!  I wore my hand knitted blue chunky shawl, pearls and did my hair in an enormous bun to accessorize!  An d of course I took a fan (cream lace), but I seem to have failed to get any pictures of me with the fan and dress!

And here I am at dinner with a Pikeman!  I really want to learn how to use a pike now!

Frock Coat Mark 2

So, long term readers may think they've seen this before and that would be because, in as much as possible it is identical to a previous frock coat I've made.  It's owner liked it so much he decided he needed two!

 It's black cotton velvet, trimmed with green satin ribbon and plastic buttons.  the lining is faux silk.

Given that both he and I need to check carefully to see which is the original I'd say I fulfilled the brief pretty well!

As we are  now reaching the point in the year where I've started work on Christmas gifts, so I may have less to show you for a few weeks, but fear not I'm still crafting!

Fluttershy Bounding

As has been previously mentioned, my Goddaughter had her birthday.  For her party, all her godmothers and her parents were requested to dress up as My Little Ponies.  I was informed I was to be Fluttershy (have I mentioned she has dictator tendencies?).  Given that I own nothing yellow or pink, I set about making a bound outfit!

I made a yellow t-shirting dress, with short sleeves and a circle skirt and a pink bolero.

I added Fluttershy's cutie mark to the skirt (I got the embroidery files from this seller on Etsy)

My bolero has the my little pony wing shape appliqued on to it.

I teamed it with my green petticoat, some pale pink tights and some pink hair clips from Claires and Katy made me Fluttershy Pony Ears to complete the look!  

The party was great fun and I'm looking forward to doing it all again next year!

Surprise Post

I don't know about you all, but I love surprise post!  So I thought my furthest away pseudo-niece, might as well!

I made her a dressing up dress (Lizard isn't the only rainbow fairy princess I know!) and an everyday version and bundled them up and sent them off.

The everyday dress is a forget-me-not poly cotton print, with wooden buttons and a cream satin waist ribbon.

The dress up frock is pink satin, with a rainbow organza over skirt, a lilac waist ribbon and a silver neck ribbon.

I was lucky enough to be sent a video of them being opened and I can safely say they were very well received!

Waistcoats!

Yup, we're still on Christmas crafting!  (The end is in sight though, fear not!)

I made a couple of friends a velvet waistcoat each as a Christmas gift.

The first one is dark green velvet and lined in green as well.  It's got gold buttons and gold D rings to adjust the back.

 The other is blue velvet lined with black and it has brass buttons and D rings.

 Both waistcoats have a patch pockets bit enough for a fob watch and I really enjoyed making them!

Small Person Dress Up - Wings and Lion

Apologies, I don't have many photos of these.  I was working up to a deadline and I forgot to snap pics in my hurry to be done!

First up, I made a set of wings for a dress up set for a little one who loves birds.  They are a fleece base and I cut out oval shapes to make wings and layered them up.  I made elastic straps on the other side for Littley to pop her wings on.

This is a tabard, made of gold crushed velvet.  It has a hood with fur trim and little tiny ears and a long tail so Littley can be a lion.

Little Dress Up Outfit - Ana

Another Christmas make!  We've still got a few to go round here!

After the success of the Elsa birthday gift I knew Ana had to be the follow up!  The top is velvet with lycra sleeves and the skirt is polycotton.

As you can see, I made an attempt at fabric painting!  It worked well  on the skirt but less well on the bodice.

I made the fastenings velcro and it has a cotton ribbon tie.

It has been very well received and I am assured there's no abatement in the Frozen fever at the house of it's owner!