Long time no see lol!

Sorry I've been MIA for a little while - I've had a project or 6 that I've been working on, but had to keep a secret until now as the people they were a surprise for have my blog addy lol! So now they all have them - I can show you!

Some of you will know my Dad's been in hospital...and his nurses did such a good job that he wanted to give them a thank you gift! So he asked me to make each of them a bag, as some of them had seen the one I made my Mum for Mother's Day and said they liked it!

And here they are - all six of them lol! 

By all accounts they were very pleased with them, so yay! I'm glad I was able to do something nice for them after the great way they looked after my Dad!

Also, remember my post with the photoshopped Farbenmix Vida dress? Well, I finally got it made! Yay me! 

Here it is.....I'm so happy with it - I think it's the most ambitious single item I've made since I started sewing!

The back of the dress....

 and the front! 

I think I'm going to have a weekend off now lol! 

Thanks for looking, hope you have a great long weekend! 

xxx

Using Photoshop to plan fabric choices!

This was kind of a lightbulb moment for me this afternoon.....so I thought I'd share! Those of you who sew and have Photoshop have probably been doing this for years, but I've only just caught on (I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, if you hadn't already guessed! Ha ha!).

In the post below you'll see I bought a Farbenmix Vida pattern, and I was trying to plan in my head what fabrics I had and what to put where, when I suddenly had a brainwave - why not Photoshop it?

So I took photos of the fabrics, and a photo of the line drawing on the front of the pattern, et voila! Instant (relatively!) dress right there on the screen!

I think I'll be doing this now for all my patterns!

Thanks for looking!

Lisa xxx

Yay! New Pattern Goodness!

My Farbenmix Vida pattern arrived from Dots n Stripes today! Super fast delivery, too! I'm so excited - I can't wait to get sewing this beautiful dress.

You'll see just on the right there the little label that came with it to sew onto the dress - I didn't know you got that too, so that was a lovely surprise! Here's a bigger picture of it...

Cute, huh? 

And finally, this made my day - on my delivery note from Dots n Stripes ....

It's the little personal touches that make all the difference, isn't it? I'll definitely be buying from them again!

Besides this, I have a tonne of other sewing to do too over the next few days - but hey, it's better to be busy, right? lol!

Hope you have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for looking!

Lisa

xxx