Hope you are having a good Easter, I used a Mary Berry
recipe for these easter cup cakes, but found some great
cup cake recipes here too !

Makery - book review.

 I popped into my local T K Max and found this book by Kate Smith.

It's got a good selection of craft projects including decoupage and
machine embroidery, hand stitched items, knitting and crochet projects.

 Maja, made this purse from the book and I think it looks fantastic.

 Maja got her clasp from Ebay, but you can buy them from Kleins too!
The size of purse Maja made is more of a bag and Maja is going to add a strap.

As a purse or make up bag or bag with a strap this is the perfect gift,
thats if you can bear to part with it, I am not sure I could !

Half price patterns !

I find dress makers paper patterns expensive, so I jumped at the chance to stock up with New Looks offer of all patterns reduced to 2.95, but hurry the offer ends this saturday.

Choosing patterns I find can be very "off putting" as the manufacture's choice of
fabric would not be mine. On the back of the pattern there is always a line
drawing which I find really useful when making my choice. On line some
of the sites also offer  enlarged or black and white line drawings

. (It normally says
"click here for out line diagram" )

The Great British Sewing Bee

The makers of The Great British Sewing Bee,
got in touch with  Sew Retro, to ask if
any of my wonderful sewers were interested
in taking part in the third series !
So far, no takers, but if there are I will
keep you posted.

The professional touch - Labels

It does not take long at a Sew Retro sewing class to go from being a beginner
to a competent seamstress making wonderful outfits and gorgeous gift.
A label gives the gift or outfit a lovely profession finish. Vicky was given
these labels for christmas they are from Easy2name. You can choose the
font, size, colour, etc............. I was very impressed with the quality.

Merry Christmas Every One

May all your christmas dreams come true.

The Great British Sewing Bee Christmas Special and Kath Kidson "Sew"

I am looking forward to watching the Great
British Sewing Bee Christmas special tonight
on BBC 2 at 7.40pm
Lets hope it's a good one !

Using the Cath Kidson "Sew" book I have made
these Christmas present. All of the items shown
in the book  "Sew"are made in using Kath
Kidson fabric.

But it shows how versatile the patterns
can be when you use different fabric.
The Kath Kidson pattern's are great
shapes, you have to trace them off !
This was easy to do. The instructions
are (I think ) quite hard to follow, but
each project is marked, easy not much experience,
more experience, etc. Pop this on your christmas
list if you like making gifts and lovely items
for the house.