Bits and pieces

I've been ill for the last 3 weeks - some sort of viral bug - so haven't really been doing very much at all in the way of crafting. In fact, all I've done pretty much is go to work, come back home and fall asleep on the sofa in between the coughing, breathlessness and wheeze... Getting better now so hopefully be back to doing a bit more sewing soon.

I have made 2 things however.

I've made a card for some friends who got married last weekend with fabric hearts and ribbons. Unfortunately the photo just doesn't do it justice (damn the blasted iphone camera!) - but believe me, I was really chuffed with how it turned out in real life.

And I've made the ribbon-wrapped initials for the wedding:

I'm really pleased with how these turned out. They will be proudly on display, probably next to the card/gift basket on the day.

I've also started to make an apron as a gift for Mum (I know it's Mother's Day today but I won't see her till next week so I've got more time to finish it!) - hopefully I can model it for a photo on here soon.

In the meantime Happy Mother's Day!!

Wedding prep

Highbury Hall

I've been a very busy bee...Lots of wedding prep, lots of stress...Found out this week that we have to revise our order of the day as we now can't hold our Nikah, the religious ceremony, in the Drawing Room at Highbury where we are having the civil ceremony due to a legality in the licence. TWO months before the wedding!

Very upset initially but have calmed down a bit now. They've offered for us to have it in the lovely gallery/balcony upstairs so going to see if that will work.

I'm making a few bits and pieces for the day - the seating plan, table names (which are the names of all our current and childhood pets combined!) and decorative letters of our initials.

Here's a practice go of the paper flowers I'm hoping to put on the seating plan. I've used the tutorial here from Under the Table and Dreaming.

The colour theme is deep purple and gold - my sister, who is my Maid of Honour, is wearing our Mum's purple wedding sari and I've got antique gold embroidery on my dress so it seemed appropriate. Hopefully I'll be getting some really nice purple, seeded Lokta paper to make them from...

Well, lots more to do so I'd better get on!

Only 3 months left...

...till my wedding!!

Bunny rabbit

I've made a toy! I followed this tutorial by Chez Beeper Bebe - except that I didn't have a printer to print off the pattern so I had to draw it freehand... which is why it's a bit asymmetrical! I didn't do everything in the pattern either so my bunny looks very different from the original mooshy belly.

cute little pom pom tail

Oh my god, it took me ages to make the pom pom for the tail. I'd completely forgotten what to do (school seems like a really long time ago!) and had to do start all over again as I totally messed it up the first time.

I even had a go at embroidering the face on - which I'm so pleased with as I thought it would be really difficult but turned out to be much more manageable than I thought...although I did have to redo the mouth as it was just a straight line originally!

But even though it's all a bit wonky, I really love the way it almost looks like an old-school vintage toy, just in very bright, modern fabrics! I've given it to Daisy, who is the daughter of one of my colleagues, for her first birthday. She and her brother Ben have a pet rabbit called Zebedee and apparently she quite likes bunnies so I hope she enjoys this one.

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Little collection of owls courtesy of tutorials by Moonstitches and Efemera Ink - sort of a mish-mash of the two. My favourite is the little brown one with the stripy tummy! These will all be going as presents to some little boys and girls...but my favourite is going to a big boy (my fiance)!