‘Stitching’ Posts

Works In Progress- Doomed?

June 1st, 2012

We had a garage sale a few weekends ago, and I thought I would sell off some of my leftover stock from when I was selling iPhone/iPad cases, and also see if people wanted some of the unfinished projects I had. They didn’t. I’m pretty sure noone even looked at them, *sigh*.

I decided to sell them off because I seriously was never going to finish them. You know when it’s been so long and you realise that you’ve lost the ‘omph’ you need to get them done? Plus, what am I going to do with them now that I’m not selling them any more?! I’m not much of a business woman, so I thought I would see if any of YOU are interested in them. For FREE. Except for shipping if you live far away… Or even if you live relatively close I guess… unless you want to pick it up.

Anyway. There are a heap of iPad and iPhone cases half done, as well as a bunch of bags and iPhone cases that ARE completely done. Send me an email, or leave a comment if you’re keen!

Question of the Day: Do you have any WIP you need to give up on? Have they passed the use by date of interest for you? Do you think you’ll EVER get time to actually do them?

Doily Onesie

May 29th, 2012
Doily onesie- handmade

I saw this mega cute doily onesie on Pinterest the other day, and immediately got a little sad that I didn’t have a daughter to make it for. I sent my heavily pregnant friend Katie a message on facebook requesting that her baby be a girl so I could make it for her instead! Well, she was very kind and DID have a girl, which meant that I could make the doily onesie I saw!

Lets just stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that I actually MADE something I pinned! Woah.

Anyway, this is the little cherub below. Isn’t she devine?! The onesie is a 00, so she still have a while before she can wear it, but I think it will suit her!

The onesie itself was super easy to make, because I just purchased a doily from the opshop (I actually had bought it quite a while ago- they’re one of those things I always buy when I see nice ones!!), and used some embroidery thread to stitch it on. I didn’t want to go crazy with the stitching, but for a baby’s outfit it needed to be pretty secure, so I did three ‘rows’ of stitching- one in each of the main section of doily. So up and down around the very edge, through the middle of the middle section, and then around the top of the inner section. I think it looks best with the doily positioned over one side of the onesie, as opposed to straight in the middle, and this also makes it much easier to do because you don’t have to worry about it being even!

Tilly Brain

P.S: Sorry for the dodgy photo of the onesie- it was a quick iPhone shot before I rushed out the door!

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