You know what they say about rabbits .....

All true !

Honey Bunny

Now that the Sew It Together girls are all together sewing

I can show you the pattern that I

 designed especially for them .

Honey Bunny is the first in my new range

of handpuppets called Handfuls of Fun !

Honey Bunny is very easy to make and I just

love her reversable dress !

Honey Bunny is not just for kids as

she is quite happily spending time with me

in The Craftroom sitting on tall jar .

If you would like your own pattern to make Honey Bunny

hop over to my shop !

my creative space

I posted a tutorial the other day here

for shabby Easter coasters

and still had bits of quilted fabric left over .

I used the scraps from the coasters and cut

them into little egg shapes .

I stitched on some pretty buttons and

 then attached brooch backs .

They were then pinned to scrapbooking cardboard .

Now I have some pretty little gifts

for a few special little girls this Easter .

Lots more creative spaces here .

still here

Just popping in quickly to let you know I'm still here .

I've done a bit of shopping at Vinnies , love my new tin !

Lots of pattern folding .

Adding new patterns to my shop and my eBay store .

and slowly , slowly cleaning up The Craftroom .

What have you been up to ?

easter coasters and placemat tutorial

I've been promising a new tutorial for a while

and finally here it is !

It's quick , it's easy and you can change the colours

and make it for kids or big people .

They would look great on your Easter breakfast table !

You will need about 20 x 1" x 60cm strips

 in fabric of your choice .

wadding and backing fabric approx 65cm x 40cm .

Make sure your wadding and backing is

a bit larger than your front piece.

 

Join your 1' strips to make a piece about 40cm .

Lay your backing fabric right side down .

Sandwich the wadding between the joined piece and

the backing fabric . Secure.

Stitch in ditch along all joins .

Use a fabric marker and trace 4 egg shapes about

the size of your hand on the back of the quilted piece.

Repeat for a larger egg shape for placemat about A4 size .

Do not cut shapes out yet.

Stitch all around shapes .

Cut out all egg shapes about 1cm from stitched line .

Use clippers or small sharp scissors to snip little cuts

all around from the edge

to the stitched line taking care not to go too far .

Give your coasters and placemat a good shake to shaggy up the edges .

I hope these instructions are clear enough for you .

I.am.not.a.quilter.

Please let me know if you make some as

I'd love to see them in your choice of colours .

the last dance with the fairies

Do you remember a few weeks ago

I bought the prettiest chenille from GoLo

called Fairy Dance?

I have been happily crocheting a blanket with it .

It sits on my chair in the loungeroom and I

reach for it as soon as I sit down .

It is going to be wide enough to go on

my queen size bed .

It sure isn't going to be long enough though

as I've run out of wool !

The shop assures me they will be getting more .

This is the result of 14 balls so far .

Just enough for a very short queen .

                                  

the carrots aren't the only things that are stuffed

I don't know how I stuffed up so badly yesterday ....

I thought I would repost my fabric carrots from last year,

at the same time I was working on a post about buttons .

Anyway no buttons but the fabric carrots tutorial

is in the post below but no one knew it was

there because it didn't show up on anyones

sidebars , told you I stuffed up !

It doesn't matter though as long as you're here now ,

thanks !

Something quick for the Easter Bunny

The bunny has hopped away with

 all the lovely carrots!

I followed them over to my new blog

and made them welcome there

and you are too.

Hop here to A Confetti Life.

My Creative Space

I'm still playing with my gorgeous hankie stash .

It seems such a shame to not let them be seen .

I hemmed the edges of some of them and

threaded some wire through .

Vintage buttons were strung on beading wire .

Now I have a very pretty lightshade .

It took about 10 minutes from thought to completion .

I love a quick craft fix !

More creative spaces here .

more softies - book winner

The winner of the more softies book is .....

Silly Gilly

Congratulations , please contact me with your details .

In the post below I asked for your favourite

crafty blogs . I received a few but it isn't

really going to be a great big list unless

we have a few more suggestions , hint , hint !

In case you are wondering why Toby is the

photo here , I just thought I'd remind you

the pattern for Toby is available in my blogshop

Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow for My Creative Space.

Also hoping I can have been creative by then .

great big list of great craft blogs

Do you know some great craft blogs ?

Would you like to share them ?

I thought I'd gather a list of them and put

them here on my sidebar .

Someone told me about a craft blog the other

day that I had never seen ,

Just Something I Made has over 5000

followers and I never even knew about it .

Yes I am following Cathe now too .

So if you know of a great craft blog

please tell us about it and

then I'll leave it here so you can

come back and find new blogs to inspire you .

more softies - book giveaway

I have one copy of "more softies" to give away .

Unfortunately it was in The Craftroom when the

cleanup of the century began and the top

right hand corner got bent , oops !

Before it gets totally ruined I need to send

it to a new home .

If you love softies and sew or crochet and

would like to save this book from more damage

please leave a comment on this post .

Until the cleanup here is finished

I'm not making anything !

The pace I'm going at I may never create again !

I let you know who the new owner is in a few days .

This giveaway has been drawn ,

thankyou for your interest.

something just doesn't add up

No matter how many times I tried I couldn't

fudge the numbers anymore .

So this it , I'm 49 today .

I really can't see how this is possible

because although my body sometimes

feels like it is 100 ,  my mind feels like a teenager

and that is not always a good thing .

I hope you have a great day too !