Another Knitting Bag

Making Mothers Day presents is not easy when your Mother is also a bit of crafter...but she's not really one for making things with a sewing machine so making her a bag is a good choice. She's into her knitting at the moment and apparently stashes her knitting in a carrier bag when she's done for the day...can't have her doing that.

For Mothers Day I made her a knitting bag to stash her unfinished projects in, using the tutorial over at Emmaline. I've used this tutorial previously to make my Nan a knitting bag for her christmas present, here's the post if you want to see it again.

This time I used a pair of circle handles rather than twisted rope effect, just means the bag will look totally different to my Nan's bag. The fabric is different too but I wanted to experiment and see how it would look using different handles as it changes the shape of the top of the bag.

Once again there's a pocket inside with one of my handmade labels sewn to it.

Hopefully Mum likes her new knitting bag and it shall keep her knitting safe in a more stylish manner than a plastic carrier bag.

 

Mothers Day Cards

 Here's this years Mothers Day card design in a 3 different colourschemes. 

Each card uses:

• Pistachio Pudding ink
• Gumball Green ink
• Stippled Blossoms stamp set
• Sweet Laughter stamp set

This card used:

• Coastal Cabana cardstock
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Bermuda Bay ink
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels

This card used:

• Strawberry Slush cardstock
• Strawberry Slush ink
• Pink Pirouette ink
• Basic Pearl Jewels

 This card used:

• Blackberry Bliss cardstock
• Blackberry Bliss ink
• Wisteria Wonder ink
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels

Hopefully everyone liked their Mothers Day cards too.

Vintage Plane Cushions

 Last October I bought this gorgeous vintage aircraft print fabric from a craft show and I was going to make cushions from it straight away.... 6 months later I've actually got round to making the cushion cover I planned to do...well in the end I made 3 as the new cover made me hate 2 more old covers on our sofa cushions.

I used the tutorial over at Craftaholics Anonymous to make my cushion covers, you can get to it by clicking here.

This cushion used to be a plain coffee colour with a couple of applique birds I added to it years ago, safe to say it looked a little lifeless and sorry for itself so I whipped the cover off and measured it up ready for it's new fabric.

 The tutorial is easy to follow and they really are quick and dead easy to make...well as long as you're paying attention when you pin it all together and don't sew it together with a right side facing a wrong side, then not realising the mistake till you turn it out... Had to unpick it all and start again but that will teach me to pay more attention when I'm pinning... 

Please say I'm not the only one who has those days were you sew the wrong sides together?

After putting the new aircraft cover on the cushion then throwing it onto our cuddle chair I realised the 2 cushions on the main sofa also looked awful, the brown and red leaf pattern just seemed so out of place. So I ran off to my fabric stash and cut some more pieces out to whip up 2 more covers.

20minutes later this is how our cushions looked....much better..and I still have more of this fabric to play with but I think it may become a handbag for me as I've just bought an ace set of handles that need a purpose.

I'm thinking cushion covers could feature in 2015's presents for friends and family..simple, stylish and personal...something they won't be able to buy and that most of them don't know how to make themselves.

March Card Club

 Here's the cards we made at March's card club. This month it was all about the stamp set Flower Shop.

Card #1

We used:

• Lost Lagoon cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Lost Lagoon ink
• Pumpkin Pie ink
• Hello Honey ink
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Pansy Punch
• Petite Petals punch
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Petite Pairs stamp set

 Card #2

We used:

• Blackberry Bliss cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Mossy Meadow cardstock
• Blackberry Bliss ink
• Smoky Slate ink
• I Love Lace stamp
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Bird punch
• Pansy punch
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Scallop Oval punch
• Petite Pairs stamp set

 Card #3

We used:

• Hello Honey cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Hello Honey ink
• Tangelo Twist ink
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Pansy punch
• Petite Petals punch

 Card #4

 We used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Mossy Meadow cardstock
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Pumpkin Pie ink
• I Love Lace stamp
• Petite Pairs stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Pansy punch
• Petite Petals punch
• Basic Rhinestones Jewels

Next m onth it's all about the Happy Hour stamp set!

 

February Card Club

 Just realised I never shared February's card club pictures... We used the Celebrate Today photopolymer bundle so we had the stamp set and the matching dies to play with.

 Card #1

We used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Pistachio Pudding cardstock
• Pistachio Pudding ink
• Baked Brown Sugar ink
• Glimmer Paper
• Celebrate Today bundle
• Stylish Stripes embossing folder
• Itty Bitty Star punch

 Card #2

We used:

• Crisp Canteloupe cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Crisp Canteloupe ink
• Glimmer paper
• Celebrate Today bundle

 Card #3

We used:

• Coastal Cabana cardstock
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Smoky Slate ink
• Glimmer paper
• Whisper White cardstock
• Celebrate Today bundle

Card #4

 

 We used:

• Strawberry Slush cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Strawberry Slush ink
• Sweetheart punch
• Glimmer paper
• Celebrate Today bundle
• Hearts embossing folder
• Confetti Heart border punch
• Happy Hearts embossing folder
• Itty Bitty Heart punch

 I'd best get writing the post for March's card club now too!