meteor messenger

I had the rare privilege of a weekend afternoon of uninterrupted time as the young prince went to his first football match with friends. So I got to making this cute little messenger bag for my cousin's 12th Birthday. I have been thinking out how to make it all week and I think it turned out really well.I used a black drill and the rest is sling off-cuts. I just adore the fabric on the front its called meteor on the selvage and its close to my favourite of the retro screen prints I've come across.

I lined it with another off cut, stripey gelatti for the main part and yellow for the flap. I'm really happy with the end result it was one of those great moments of the outcome exceeding what I had envisaged.


I hope the recipient is equally impressed.

busy busy tired

Its terribly easy to get of the habit of blogging for a few days and then suddenly its a few weeks. I've been so caught up in getting uni stuff finished (yay) then super tired after doing the crap house cleaning job (nay) and then all excited and nervous over applying for, interviewing and getting a 'real' job (quadruple yay).

So the blogging has been on the back burner, very little cratyness happening down this way. Although the white tiger I had here for the weekend did some lovely spontaneous crafting of his own and made a paper transformer! And this mornings trip to two newly discovered oppys has made some inspiration begin to bubble.
Lots of wonderful doll hair I am seeing with this bunch of wool, the ginger mohair should be most fun! The teapot, cups and box all came from the free tub and I think will make great pots for succulents to sell and the school. We've got a parents club up and running which is proving to be a lovely distraction and so far very welcoming and down to earth.

Dancing Diva

Diva finally choose an out fit today! Looks like she's a purple Lycra kind of girl! It doesn't come up in the photos but the tops has a bit of a ghost of a print on it. A lino cut my mum and I were playing around with a few years ago.
I'll be a bit sorry to see the mesh fabric go, its awesome but its been in the stash for a long while now.

ramble

The great thing about tomorrow is that it just never comes LOL. Diva hasn't decided what she wants to wear yet and its been slowing down my creative process. So the last few days have been filled up with sling sewing, of just the plain old blues so just work more than excitement there. That and there's only a week left of semester so lots have hours have gone into that! I've been working pretty non stop on the ublo design far to hard in fact I am feeling a little burnt out by it and have made the very very annoying mistake of only saving a jpg of a file not the ai which means I either have to settle for the not so great one or do it all again.

I did get mildly inspired this evening and whipped up a hot water bottle cover, was over the messy-ness of using a pillowcase. I'm trying to find ways to use up this snow leopard fabric as its bulky and takes up far to much space in the fabric stash...

Diva and Gypsy

These girls are just about set to go out and dance the night away...

Meet Diva, purple eyes, luscious lips and abundant curly hair she's a very funky doll.
She is however awaiting some clothes be-fitting to her image, tomorrows task.


And joining Diva today is Gypsy. Gypsy has been around for a while waiting to find her place in the world...

robotie softie

As requested by the little one I spent this morning making a robot that has been christened with the original name of robotie and is cuddled up in bed now so I think we can say mission accomplished and robot experiment successful.
He's a bit rough and ready but I think that adds to his charm and Xander chose the fabric keeping up his everything blue obsession.

I think got stuck into a much more complex doll but preceded to run out of stuffing for her body...

ma ma pa-jigs

Two more ma-jigs today and joining them for the first time a pa-jig. These are so fun to make and its just amazing how their personalities come out. I sewed their faces whilst I was chatting to mums at a kids party at a play center I think that might account for the oranged haired ones rather startled expression.

I've had a request to make a robot tomorrow, sounds like a bit of a challenge but it would be good to work out a softie that's a bit more boy orientated. Whilst my boy says all the dolls are cute he's not exactly itching to play with them... So hmmm robot...