Gift Exchange Time Again

So once again I've been a terrible blogger I know but finishing my degree kinda took over life... but now..... IT'S OVER !!!!!!! Back to blogging and crafting freely once again :)
To get myself back into the swing of things I signed up for the Gift Exchange over at Craftaholics Annonymous which I've done before, but this time there's a twist the person I'm making for doesn't make something for me, somebody totally different does so it's a bit more of a surprise for everyone!   My partner told me she liked bold prints, buttons and vintage things, with purses bags and scarves being on her list of loves.... so I've made her a zipper pouch using vintage butterfly print fabric with black satin lining and a flower brooch made with some vintage trim... all from a vintage retro fair last summer. fingers crossed she likes them and they arrive safely soon :) 

    

Handmade Gift Exchange.. Pt 2

So Handmade Gift Exchange part 2... here's what I received from the lovely Linda from View from the Hamster Wheel.

A cute floral camera pouch, with dotty lining and a dotty flower embellishment... now I don't know if I told Linda I had a dotty obsession or if my blog gave it away or maybe she just had a good guess.. I love it, my camera's living in it already.

2 cute brooches... 1 floral print flower and 1 made from gingham rosettes with 2 strands of pearls between them, you can just see them at the edge of the brooch (struggled to get photos of everything together showing everything I wanted to).
Now I just need to pick bags/coats to put them on... or maybe I just need to make myself new bags to embellish them with lol!

Thanks Linda I love my gifts :)

Handmade Gift Exchange

A couple months ago I decided I was going to take part in Linda from Craftaholics Anonymous Handmade Gift Exchange. My partner was a lovely Scottish lady called LeeAnn from View From The Hamster Wheel, we chatted away via email about things and I learnt that she too doesn't own a posh slr camera just a point and shoot digi camera like me and she's scared of sewing zips into projects...

So with these thoughts in mind I decided to make her a zipper pouch/make up bag and a strap for her digicam.

The zipper pouch is made from a pale pink 7" zipper, white cotton lining and the funky pink print jersey... I actually bought too much of this fabric in overestimating how much I'd need so now I've got some for me to use in the future too :) Sewing this took some patience I had no idea how frustrating it is to sew jersey! I even finished off the zipper ends after seeing some easy tutorials to make the zipper look finished.
The camera strap is a funky red/pink floral pattern material a bit like a scarf... it actually came from my emergency stash of offcuts that Mum sent me from her last fabric shop trip.. while making this one I realised how quick and easy they were and made myself one out of an old scarf, but I'll show you that another day.

I'm glad LeeAnn likes her gifts and I'm glad I had such a lovely partner for my first swap, I shall have to play again next time!

Tomorrow I'll do a post on the gifts LeeAnn sent me