Embroidery

 Springy and some of her friends went to the Embroidery Guild last week. I can't believe how well their work turned out. It started off as bits of thread and material and ended up as a book cover with gold thread, crushed velvet and so on.

Christmas 2009

We had a lovely Christmas so far. We didn't put the decorations up until Christmas Eve which worked really well. We had springy's Birthday and C's birthday as well.

Springy had a number of birthday playdates. We made gingerbread, decorations and so on.

N came round for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and yesterday too. We had some old films to watch like The King and I and Singing in the Rain which was nice.

I just finished sewing up a third gnome sleeping bag from the Wee Folk Art pattern I've been using. The first was a present for Springy for Christmas. I think she wants me to go into fullscale production for each and everyone of her little toys but I think three is enough for now.

Springy had a Brer Rabbit story last night. I'm going to read it to her again later and then tomorrow I'm hoping she will do a picture and a summary.

Me and sewing

I have not done sewing for years. Well that's not true as tonight I had to restitch one of Springy's Beaver badges back on to her top. I love the idea of sewing and want to sew but always felt intimidated by the whole thing. I've had sewing lessons and even did Textiles as a GCSE but I did everything by hand, badly. I really want to get myself a sewing machine and run up some pretty things for our home. I know that there is all the pattern stuff that I would need to learn about, then how to thread up the machine and so it goes on and this is why I've not gotten around to it (not forgetting that a sewing machine is way down on our list of financial priorities as well).

Sewing onto Binka

The other day I bought some Binka with which to make a sewing sampler as part of our home education provision. I've got a bodkin needle and the plan was to borrow my old sewing sampler that I did years ago as the model. However, my mum seems to have lost it somewhere! Oh well... so I'm trying to find out about sewing stitches at the moment because I haven't got much of a clue any more (since in a typical school fashion we did this project once so my brain has since forgotten it). I am hoping that we will sew a lot so that this will become a skill into adulthood (but I'm going to have learn alongside Springy).

I've also bought some felt to make the ballet shoe stocking thing as a room decoration. So far we've cut out the pattern (well I have - she just watched a bit but is so busy playing with everyone else here).