Introducing Humact Terciel

Who I made a surcoat/tabard thing for!

It's royal blue cotton drill with silver satin bias binding. 

The pattern is made up though based on a character of Garth Nix.  It has side slits to the waist for movement and an oddly bell shaped sleeve.

I embroidered a key on each sleeve, again as a nod to the character it's based off.

Not a lot else to say about this I think!  New cloak style to show on Thursday!

Introducing Warden Reid

Yes, we're back to larp kit!  Here's a tabard I made for a friend playing a justice warden.

 The tabard has a front slit which is bias bound as is the neck hole.  The symbol is one he sent to me and is appliqued on in white felt.

Not a lot else to say about this one!  I'm sorry I don't have more pictures, I didn't seem to get any good ones.

DI Craft Swap - Woodland Theme

I participated in my first ever craft swap!  It was so much fun I've already signed up for the next one! 

This swap is organised by the lovely Hannah who blogs at Dainty and Ivory.  Septembers theme was Woodland and as I spend a lot of time running around in the local woodland it seemed like an appropriate time to sign up!

I was sending to Gayle of Pink Robot and it was so much fun to come up with what to send!  I already read her  blog and so I knew that like me Gayle loves to sew.  So I found the sweetest woodland print fat quarter and ran up a needle book, scissor fob and pincushion.

The fob is a miniature version of the pincushion.  I used some of my new rayon embroidery thread to embroider the words on the needle case and the buttons were in my button box.  I thought they were the most perfect match!

 

For my bought gift I found a woodland themed notebook and a pack of woodland stickers.  I loved wrapping everything up and then posting it off to Gayle!

Meanwhile, wonderful Gemma from Lipstick and Lashes sent to me and she spoilt me totally!  Last week was a very rough week and my wonderful parcel was a bright spot to cheer me up!

Everything in the parcel is lovely, but I think the best bit is the kind words in the lovely notelet Gemma sent me!  That said I am wearing the gorgeous thistle necklace now (I've not really taken it off since it arrived), the tin is on my coffee table, waiting for the perfect filling to go inside it, my gorgeous hand made hedgehog (who I adore!) is on the lounge door where I can see him as I work and I am bedecked in the floral crown!

The tea light holders have gone to join my table of candle holders, the tea lights themselves long gone. Last but not least, the tartan fabric has gone to join my stash whilst I think up the perfect thing to make from it!  The possibilities are endless and I am paralysed by indecision right now...

Aren't I the luckiest person?  If you are interested in craft swaps then I really recommend popping over to Dainty and Ivory to sign up! I think the current sign up is open until the 15th. I can't wait to find out who I'm sending to next!

Introducing Koia!

Oh look, I am here after all!  Things have (thankfully) calmed down.

So, here's a tunic I made for Tribeswoman Koia.

Made to my usual style, but  with added side gores rather than slits.

It's brown cotton and a pretty orangey brown trim.

 The trim was tricky to get round the neck but I eventually got it to a point where I was happy enough with it.

Next week a warden and a humact I think...

Transfer T-Shirt

I took a quick break this weekend and made myself a t-shirt!  Mainly so I could finally play with my book of iron on transfers.

As you can see I put one transfer on the sleeve and one on the front. they're lines of celtic knots.  Ironing them on was a faff (I might have damaged my table, oops...) but I really like the effect.

 The fabric is some more of my dark grey t-shirting (nearly but not quite run out of that!

If I'm going to be honest, the t-shirt is a little tight, but still wearable.  I think this will end up as a work top because then I won't worry when it gets messy!

So, there you go.  As a quick heads up, life has been a bit meh here lately, so I'm not overly sure if there will be a post on Thursday.

Smarties Cake

Nothing sewn today, instead check out this cake I made for my step-daughters birthday!

It's a basic victoria sponge, covered in chocolate buttercream.  I then squashed chocolate fingers into the sides of the cake and arranged smarties on the top (no pinks ones as pink is not cool apparently).

I'm still pleased with how it turned out!  Also, in case you were wondering this is what the contents of six tubes of smarties sorted by colour look like.

Winter Coat

With the nights drawing in and the temperature dropping it was time for Small Bean to have a new coat.

Coats for babies need to be 3 things - washable, easy to put on and take off and big enough to grow into without being too big!

With this in mind, fleece was the obvious choice and measuring was done carefully to make sure it was the right size.  As back fleece was what I had to hand, we went with a slightly punk/goth/emo look.

Please excuse the randomness of these pics.  Small Bean didn't want to model, she wanted to crawl and be fed pink wafer biscuits (she was out of luck there, I didn't have any in).

But as you can see, it's a knee length, overlocked fleece coat.  The overlocking was done in white to relieve the blackness and it has a hood and three buttons.

The sleeves currently need to be rolled up a little and it's baggy, but with any luck this merely means she won't grow out of it until the spring!