Count down to christmas (week 3)- Really last minute pressents

If you still haven't got a present yet (then you've left it very late this year :) ) but still want to make something personal for your friend, family member or anyone who you want to give a gift to, then I have the perfect video for you, which I found on YouTube!

I thought this may be useful for you, even though some of the ideas are not as crafty as I usually do for Christmas as I believe they are very easy to do as last minute gifts.

I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas (week 2)- Pot of Love

This one is a very simple but time consuming present all you need is:

• Paper
• Jam jar
• Ribbon
• Scrap piece of square fabric

How to make your pot of love:

1. First write 52 (one for every week of the year) loving, inspiring or just simply nice and cute  massages on your paper and cut them up.
2. Now fold your messages in your jam jar.
3. Next screw on the lid and place your piece of fabric on the top of the jam jar.
4. Finally secure your fabric in place by tying the ribbon around the bottom of the lid. 

I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas (week 1)- home made soap

There's nothing more personal than giving a home made item. My first home made item of my christmas pressies is soap. You may remember that I blogged about making my first ever bar of soap here. I made them using this video tutorial.

From there I started to come up with designs as shown bellow. These are great as a centre piece of a present or as a present on it's own. However I should warn you that it takes 3-4 weeks to be ready for giving, so if you want to make them as pressies get making now!

 I hope this has inspired you!

Count down to christmas

Hello fellow crafters, it's that time again... IT'S CHRISTMAS! Well almost. over the next four blog post I'll share with you what I'm making for my friends as presents. My hope is to give you some last minute ideas before Christmas, so stay tuned.

Elf shorts

A while ago for my school textile project I had to make a pair of pyjama bottoms. I made mine for my little sister. I used a thin green and whit polka dot cotton material and lined the hem with red ribbon, as I finished quicker than expected. My final decoration was the green and red bows.
Once I had finished my classmate commented that they looked like elf shorts, which was kind of cute as I finished them a couple of weeks before Christmas.

This was also the first project I had done using an over locker.

Sadly these shorts no longer fir my sister but I'm keeping them anyway because of the memories they hold and how cute they are.

I hope this has inspired you!

A sewing holiday!

A couple of weeks ago I went on holiday with my extended family to what can only be described as the middle of no where. We stayed on a very large farm meaning there was lots to do... when it came to walking! Don't get me wrong I enjoy walking but I can't do it 7 days in a row. So for some entertainment I decided to take my sewing machine with me.

This was a first for me but it got me wondering do you ever take your sewing machine with you on holiday or have you ever sewn in a bizarre place? Please leave a comment bellow :)

I hope this has inspired you!

september high waisted denim skirt

It's sad to say but autum will be here soon (as you can tell I adore summer, from my other post, and all it's bright colours) but it's not all doom and gloom because autum brings its own set of colours and gives me an opportunity to work with darker more subtle colours.

This can best be seen in the skirt bellow. I got the top half of this skirt (the orange bit) pattern from a pattern online, which sadly I can't find at the moment but if I find it again I will update this post.

The bottom part of this skirt was improvised making sure that I calculated in space from the widest part of my hips and added in seam allowence. The final result is a simple but autumery skirt that can be teamed with many diffrent styles.

 P.S. I'm so sorry that I haven't been blogging regularly because things are a bit hectic at the moment but as soon as they calm down I will hopefully be able to blog more regularly. 

I hope this has inspired you!