School Holidays

We always have a range of school holiday activities running and this year is no exception.

This year we have opted for some advanced sewing classes as well as a series of craft beginner classes that included, beading, papercraft and stitching...

Whilst my beading photos were - lets just say dodgy! I am happy to show you some slightly better ones of the placemats and coasters done in our papercraft class. As you can probably see bling is an essential element of any papercraft activity! These are very talented 6 and 7 year olds!!

And the last one is beginner cross stitch utilising the Make It wooden cross stitch frames from Leutenegger.  Small and achievable and they can look amazing as a brooch or necklace... This is the owl I did but there were mushrooms and ladybugs getting worked on during the morning.

As to the more advanced sewers - there was a number of owl posts made with an assortment of letters to go in the pouch. Jodie - this pattern is an absolute pleasure to make up.


And as for me, I am working through some Apples to Oranges from the Straight Stitch Society.  Love making these - and of course I had to make both the Orange and the Apple

Hope your holidays are going well ... we are about to have some time with our boys!! Yay

Threadneedle will be closed for the final week of January.

Fusible Vinyl

I got this amazing stuff in a while ago.  It took me a while to get a chance to play with it but it has been worth the wait.

The Make It range have done it again with this fusible vinyl.  It can be applied to any cotton or linen (to date that is all I have put it on but stay tuned).  All you do is iron your fabric really well (no creases) then peel off the vinyl from its backing and using the paper it came off (or a tea towel) iron it straight on to the right side of the fabric.

So far I have made two bags with plans for more things. 

 

The monkey fabric was turned through to make the front and looked quite creased when I did that.  So I went back to the ironing board and simply ironed it again.  This stuff is seriously awesome as the creases disappeared!!!

With the bird bag, I simply used bias binding and had to pin it all together - again a bit of ironing and all is good again.

I am quite proud of this second bag as the design is from my head......  And it worked!!!!

Just make sure that you cover the whole vinyl with something before you iron or it will cause holes.  It does come with some instructions as well which is great.

If you would like to play with the fusible vinyl you can buy it from our on-line shop or come in and have a look at it... I am sure I will be playing some more very soon...  I want to see if it can cover a stitchery.... if so I am absolutely hooked.