Lifeguards in training

This week I have been busy doing some applique on some t-shirts for the kids ... as we are off on holiday with Jorg and Lilli and their kids, that meant that I needed to do 5 t-shirts. Hopefully the kids will like them and I will get a pic of them all at the beach wearing them :-)

Another purse

 Another purse made in the hoop on my machine but this time I thought I would try making a purse with some Arsenal fabric that I had left, I think it turned out ok, good job it only chopped the L off on the back of the purse though :-)

Cricket birthday cake

 Today was Markus' birthday party .... and he wanted a cricket party so needed a cake to go with it ...he was suitably impressed with this ... especially because under the grass there was mud (otherwise known as chocolate cake !!!)

"In the hoop" purse

Since I got my embroidery sewing machine I haven't really tried anything too exciting, apart from doing standard names and pictures. I did recently try some applique but have now tried to make something "in the hoop", this means it was all done in the embroidery hoop by adding layers of material at different times.


Here is the finished result, a little coin purse which I enjoyed doing so will no doubt try a couple more to really get the hang of it before trying some different patterns .... so watch out you might all get coin purses for Christmas

 ... probably better than a knitted dishcloth !

Bathroom blind

 Here are some pics of the new roman blind in the bathroom. It is the first time that I have used the chain winding system for raising the blind and am quite impressed with it :-)