Fabric and Pattern

Here is a picture of the fabric and pattern I am using....the fabric is different isn't it lol lol.....I have washed and pressed it ready for cutting out, I won't do that today because I may be going out later. When I saw this fabric made up it was a child's duvet cover.....lol lol......I hope it turns out alright, if it doesn't I can wear it to craft in....Willow thought it would be lovely made into a tote bag.

When I cut this out I will have to make sure I match the pattern fronts, so I won't have to put right sides of the fabric together when I cut it out, I will have to open the fabric out and cut out on the right side, one pattern piece at a time to make sure it matches.

Competition

I told you we were going to a dog competition yesterday, well here is one of the photographs we took.....it was lovely the rain kept off all day, we saw old friends and also made new ones all in all I thoroughly enjoyed it. They are the Cheviot Hills in the background.

Shape

I don't know if anyone can tell by my photograph but I am a funny old shape.........I find it really difficult to find a shirt that fits me comfortably......I am not very keen on collars, they make my neck ache, I don't know why. So I have a favourite shirt pattern that I make my shirts out of, it is a simple round neck with 3/4 sleeves with a slit, a pocket and front fastening. It took me ages to fit this pattern to my shape but once I got it right I can just cut out and make up, I can also put a collar on this shirt because it fits me comfortably.
The reason I am telling you this is because I went into L. Ashley today as you do when you are shopping and I found some lovely cotton fabric that they used made up as a child's duvet cover, well I thought this fabric would make one of my shirts. I bought 2 metres and as it shrinks when you first wash it, I asked the assistant to check for me, I will wash it first, straighten the grain and press it then I will be ready to cut out, mark it and sew. It isn't as quick and easy as that but I am ready for a new one, I already have 3 of these shirts a pink cotton one, a white linen one and a beige linen one. I also have some pale lemon fabric to make another one. When I have washed and pressed the fabric I will take a photograph of it with the pattern.

The weather we have had over the past few days has been absolutely dreadful, the tall flowers in the garden have keeled over, rose petals are all over the lawn and I haven't even finished planting my bedding plants.
I hate wet weather because my dogs don't get the exercise they need, I don't mind showers but 24/7 torrential rain.......no! It looks as if it is going to start again, it's getting very dark......tut....
We are out tomorrow to a dog competition so I hope it dries up a little.

Goody Bag

This is a goody bag made with the daisy tartan paper, fairy dust bag and cup cake stamps. The idea is to give these goody bags to children as they leave a party, but you could use them for adults and fill them with chocolates or a small gift, a piece of birthday cake anything you like really and make the appropriate header card.

Magical Day Card

Here is my magical day card using the fairy dust bag and cup cake stamps, the paper is daisy tartan all from Willow Designs. I used my cricut machine and Jasmine for the font and the candles are from the Celebrations cartridge.

My Wedding Photographs

Here are two of my wedding photographs.......the one with the wedding cake was chewed by a little Yorkshire terrier we used to have and I have digitally repaired it.....I have got to give myself a round of applause for that because I thought it was lost forever.....I am delighted.

My intention is to design a paper especially for these photographs, I only scrapbook in 8 x 8 so I will do a double page LO.

I have a , what we would call a proper, album which Dougy had done for me on our 1st wedding anniversary as a surprise and it is rather beautiful. These photographs are the proofs, the best of course were kept for the album and they are a lot bigger than these are. I like these two.....I have lots more that I could fill a whole scrapbook with but I am sticking to a double LO