Whats going on....

I seem to have a lot of different things going on at the moment and i thought i would take some time to share them with you as well as make a note of them for myself for the future.

*I would like to wish Adrienne a happy birthday for today! Hope you have a wonderful day.

*On Monday i am off to London to go see the embassy. It is way too expensive to catch the train down to London so i am going to have to go by bus. A three hour journey there and a 3 hour journey back. A long time! I am hoping to get at least one knitting project finished and possibly a second.

*My new car is working fantastically and i am really enjoying driving her around.

*We also bought a new DH ready flat screen television on Wednesday night. We have been borrowing a family members TV for months now so thought we had better get our own and give them theirs back.

*Last night we met up with my family and my gran and we had a lovely meal at the Hobby Horse Pub.

*Over the next month i will be spending so much time on this Handmade Holidays Tutorial site by Sew Mama Sew. It looks fantastic.

*Stu's engine in his motorbike has got some problems. We have found a new engine for the bike and if all goes well we should be picking it up this weekend.

*I have not been doing any scrapping lately but i have been doing a lot of work in my art journal. I will get some photos posted some time this weekend. If you are looking for something fine to try your hand it have a look at Suzi's site, D'blogala's site and doc.u.menting site. Your art doesn't have to beautiful to anyone else except to you so don't what others say or what that critical voice inside of us put you off trying this.

* I have only recently found the creative organizing blog but i can not wait to get my teeth stuck into it a little more.

*I seem to be going off of tea for some reason. I am not sure why or what i am going to drink if i keep going the way i am but my daily cups of tea just aren't doing it for me anymore.

* I love Greys Anatomy

* We have made no further plans on the wedding front

* I am really missing my old friends lately

Have a great weekend everyone and keep safe.

Sewing Tutorial: Apron

This is my first apron that i have sewn and i am a very new sewer but thought that someone else out there might find it useful to see how i made this little cutie. I finished it last night and am so pleased with how it turned out.

I searched loads of places for a pattern and although there are loads out there i couldn't find one that i liked or that i could figure out - so i made my own. Now i know its not exactly rocket science or anything but i took each step one at a time.

Step 1: Choose the fabrics that you want to use as well as get together all your supplies.
Step 2 : I drew my own pattern onto brown paper, cut it out and pinned it to my fabric. Once i was happy with it i cut out the fabric.
Step 3: I decided that i wanted to have three pockets on my apron and my mom suggested, to make them a little stronger, that i added some sort of bias to them. I didn't have any at home so decided to use ribbon instead. I pinned the ribbon down and then sewed my seams on the front pouch. My seams are 3/4 inches wide.

Step 4: Place the front pouch on the backing fabric and pin this down. Once you are happy with the positioning sew on both side of the ribbon or bias.

Step 5: Sew the front pouch onto the back fabric, remembering to leave the top part of the pouch loose. Pin and sew the seam on the larger backing fabric.
Step 6: Cut out your ties that you are going to use according to your preference. I didn't measure mine so not able to give you any of those details.
Step 7: Pin and sew your seam on the ties and then attach to the sides of the apron. The first tie that i put on i attached to the top of the apron and then had to unpick it and resew it so just double check! lol

Once both ties are done your apron is basically finished. Once i had this i decided to add the felted birdie to it. I hand drew the bird, cut it out and then sewed it on by hand.

I should have ironed my apron before photographing it but i was just so pleased with it i couldn't wait.
I hope that this has been helpful to someone.

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