Baby blankie

I wiped this up yesterday morning but didn't get a chance to post with a busy afternoon...

Using fabric scraps from the stash, the inner is an off-cut from a sling and the outer a sarong I haven't worn in years. The sarong is quite fitting really I brought it in Townsville when I was pregnant with Xander, so a nice piece of synchronicity there...

I opted for some contrast stitching to hold it all in place, the soft voile fabric didn't want to hold the shape to well.

Its a great easy way to make a baby blanket, will have to find some big scraps to make a few more... But now to find a new project for the next week...

Mbeleko rebirthing

For years now I have been thinking of updating the whole Mbeleko identity. I am no longer making slings and whilst I have made the odd one here and there over the past few years my passion for the business is long gone.

I am however still a creative woman and feel more myself when being creative. As an incentive I am rebirthing this here blog, with the commitment to blog about something I've made every week. I would love to say each day but I know that is setting myself up for failure. So each week it is, with work that it the best I can achieve and anything above that is icing...

 In the interests of keeping the insiration high I have spent the afternoon Pinning over at Pintrest. What a fantastic little universe that is, never again do I need to re-google for that awesome thing I found the other day...

Now where to start this new blogging adventure, with baby number two on the way after am eight year gap baby crafts are high on the agenda! Tomorrow I hope to knock out a simple baby blanket following this tutorial, from Apostrophy Designs.

It's starting small but it starting... never to be underestimated starting

tumbleweeds and love of staple guns

I don't even want to look at the date of my last post, I know it was over 12months ago... ah well life happens eh. I think I stopped blogging here around the time I started working and there just weren't enough hours in the day...
Well let blow out the tumbleweeds because I've been spontaneously creative again. No more uni sapping me dry and taking every creative urge. So finally got around to a project I've been putting off, the covering of the chairs!

I started the day with three chairs that looked a little like this:
Well I say I started the day but it reality I've been living with this strange browny velvet for most of the year... I have had the fabric sitting around that I wanted to cover them with for about that long as well...
But motivation struck this morning! Rapidly followed by the tragedy of re-discovering ones staple gun in pieces. Alas a trip to bunnings was needed! And then oh fun of fun the joy of a working staple gun the pops in those little suckers with such aplomb can never be underestimated and so the day drew to a close with chairs like so...

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...