Merchant and Mills The Camber set

Today I have a little bit of the blues, its the last day of my lovely summer break from teaching. And such a lovely summer it has been. I haven't left the UK but managed some trips to the seaside and days out. Silly red head didn't buy sun tan cream and ,yes , you can burn in the British sun! You would think I would know that by now.... My last day before stepping back into 12 to 14 hour days with no break, but this time I hope to keep up my work on Miss Gingers. If you have read my blog before you will see that one of my trips was to Hastings where I discovered the lovely Merchant and Mills. So I have had to start stocking them.

I decided on the Camber set as its a nice simple pattern and looked easy to wear too.

 

The pattern comes as both a dress or top. The pattern pieces are separate which I think makes it good value. The fabric I used was Vintage Couturier by Robert Kaufman and available here

 

Today I intend on making the dress version from this light denim as I can picture it with boots with winter. Winter... maybe I should use the heavy denim?

I found this image below on the net and love the style in a funky fabric.

 

so maybe not denim but the fabric below? oh decisions!!

 

I should be preparing for work...grrrrr.

I am hoping to do the shirt dress next and would love to do a sew along with people. Let me know if you would like to, or the Camber set. x

Verity

xxx

 

giveaway and sunshine

After much thought, well, as much as this heat will let a red head think, i have got my bits together for my 100 followers giveaway. As my blog is a bit of a mish mash of all things craft and a heap of vinatge love, i have tried to include something to please everyone.

 Firsty a metre of Saffron Craig fabric. You can have a whole metre of one, or a selection - 2 half metres - or four quaters etc. It will be up to you if you win.

 Prize B - 3 balls of sidar wool with this book for all people who love to crochet

 Prize C - the above lovely vintage pack. The magazine is from 1955, with some buttons, cotton, thread and needles.

Prize D - a top made by Moi! It will fit a size 10 - 12 and maybe a 14 because of the cut. 

To enter you need to be a follower and  leave a comment. If you are only interested in one or two of the prizes then please say which ones you would like to be entered for. You will get two entries if you mention this giveaway on your blog - (let me know you have!). I am willing to send anywhere so open to all countries. I will pick a winner next saturday. each item will have a seperate drawer, picked from old fashioned paper with your names on it by Noah and Isabel. 

xx

Fabric feast and beautiful friends

So here it is... My fabric that i ordered from Saffron Craig has arrived. I saw this fabric first on the wonderful blog flying who makes the most wonderful quilts, (and has to said seems like a fab person too) I fell in love and knew i had to get myself some...

It all arrived and i couldn't stop jumping around. Isn't it lovely. As yet my pictures do not do it justice. I have started to put them on sale on Etsy as i await for my website to get up and running.
I will also make a few bits from them.

 And lastly my lovely friend Becky wearing one of my tops. She is the sooooo brilliant and i am so lucky to have her as a friend. Plus she looks super nice in my (now her) top!

So do you like the fabric? What would you make? I like the brown and want to make it into a skirt. look out for that this weekend. x

with pleasure comes pain..

Now, as some of my people who read my post on saturday will now, it was a big day for me.
A party at my house for the Eurovision song contest. I was up at seven cleaning and shopping.
Making everything eurovision friendly..

Flags to hide the messy kitchen!

Everyone bought amazing food, which i just think looks fab with all the flags in. These two pictures don't show the half of what we had. And then of course everyone bought drink from different countries.

So as we watched and cheered, groaned, laughed and scored food was eaten and drink was drunk

I do like a little vodka, and prosecco, and cava.. As i had over 30 people over it meant there was a great atmosphere and lots of countries food and drink to choose from!

This was just the front room...

So yes the next day i was in pain!! I thought my head would explode as i did the big tidy up (why did i clean for the party!!!)

It was a great night even though i don't think the best song won. My heart was with Denmark, but then i am biased. I love Demark, beautiful country with fabulous design.

I had to show you the above picture, it's not a great image, but on sunday we had two great fat ducks in our garden. Can i remind you i live in built up South London, and no one i know has a pond or river. It was so strange but rather lovely.x

I did manage to make two tops. I have adjusted a pattern and used an old top of mine to come up with this design. I really like it and they look lovely on. I will be putting them on for sale soon.Please look out - as i also want to do a giveaway with one..

My head is nearly back to normal but i now have an eye infection. Thats what happens when you party too hard!

xxxx

OOOO i adore fabric!

a top from the dress pattern

After the success of my dress that i made, i decided i would like to make it as a top. I had this fabric waiting for me to make a skirt. I had to use it though.

 I made it this morning and then wore it to a friends BBQ.

 I just took the Pattern and cut 30cm of the bottom.

I am now looking for some different fabric to do more...I still have enough of the first fabric to make a top and a friend has asked for one so maybe i should do that first (she is a lovely friend)

xx