Design by Jamie!

I made this Imke before we went away...I've only just got round to posting it! 

Now, the story behind this one...I was looking on EBay for some fabric for Jamie to make him a fleece hoody, and found some gorgeous 'kid' fabrics - robots, cars, trains, bright colours...

I saved them in my watch list, and decided to let him pick.

So, he looked....and picked a plain, dark brown stretch corduroy that had been in my watch list for another project! lol! No amount of persuasion would get him to change his mind...so I ordered it!

When it arrived, I decided to let him go the whole way and choose everything...the style, the applique wording and fabric - even down to the colours of thread!

So this is what he came up with...I think the boy has some serious designing in his future, it looks great - definitely not bad for a soon-to-be-4 year old!

The orange and blue zig zag stitching...they had to be on top of each other, not side by side...

The pocket on the sleeve...

The 'DUDE' applique...

and a couple of pics of the finished item!

Thanks for looking! 

Lisa xxx

Stuff Jamie Makes . . . (and a very simple tutorial!)

I don't always remember to post (or photograph) the little projects that me and Jamie come up with to keep him entertained, and I'm pretty sure that some (most!) of them you wouldn't want to read about ha ha!

But it was raining bucketfuls today, he was bored, and so I came up with this!

It's really very easy, very fun, and you can eat the leftovers. No, really, you can! 

You will need...

a piece of card (not too thick - you need to be able to put holes in it!)

the largest needle you can find (ours was a very big, very blunt darning type)

some thinnish ribbon (you need to be able to thread it through the needle)

some Cheerios (Note: other ring-shaped cereals are available.)

Ok. Got all that? Good. 

Firstly, draw a simple shape on your card. I wanted a heart - Jamie, being a boy and finding hearts 'too girly, Mummy!' chose a triangle.

Now, all around your shape, poke holes through the card at 1cm intervals.

Then thread your needle with the ribbon, put a knot at the end, and start sewing...

needle up through the hole from the back, add a Cheerio, down through the next hole, up through the third, add a Cheerio, and so on. It looks pretty cool when you're finished, it's simple enough for a young (ish) child to do (mine's nearly 4) and they get a great sense of achievement when it's finished!

Here's some photos of our project this morning...

Let's get started...

I'm getting the hang of this now, Mummy...

FINISHED! (I think I'll just eat these Cheerios that were left over nom nom nom!)

Thanks for looking, hope you have fun with this!

Lisa

xxx

Stuff Jamie Makes???

I was sitting doing some hand sewing this morning, when Jamie asked me if he could have a go!

So I dug out my biggest, bluntest needle, some scrap fabric, some thread...and set him off! He loved it - but didn't want to stop ha ha ha!

Here is him sewing, and the final results...I'm hoping I can incorporate this into something I make for him (somehow lol!)

I hope I'm not going to have to start a new blog for him.....lol!

Thanks for looking!

xxx