I'm pleased to announce that Sewing World editor, Julie Briggs, will be leaving the magazine at the end of this month and then starting with me me at The Sewing Directory mid April. She will be focusing on the content side of the site building up more great projects, tutorials and features for you to read. Find out more here.
I've managed some sewing in between all the business side of things and have kept on track with my pledge to make a handmade gift a month. In February I made my mum the yarn holder she wanted from the book Sew-Licious Little Things by Kate Haxell. It was a mother's day present so I have it to her this weekend and she loved it.
For March's handmade gift I made fabric boxes from the book Stylish Home Sewing by Torie Jayne. I made the celtic one for my mum, and the woodland one for my mother in law - again both as mother's day gifts.
I couldn't resist making a few for myself to, they perfectly fit fat quarters of fabric in (around 25-30 per box) so are great for organising your sewing room. I made the black one above for myself plus another woodland one. I'm sure I'll be making more in the future too.
If you'd like to make your own one the publishers, Cico Books, have kindly let me put the project from the book onto my site - find it here.
I'm hoping that once Julie starts I'll have even more time for sewing (and blogging).
What have you been making lately? Do feel free to include links to pics/details in the comments.
3 comments:
These look fantastic. I really want a sewing machine but haven't got any space. I went to an event last year and was shown how to use fat quaters as photography back drops and I bought loads. would love to actually so something with them now i'm bored of using them as backgrounds
You can make smaller projects with hand sewing Steph, it's slower than with a machine but you can still make nice things.
You could make the fabric boxes by hand, you'd just need to buy some stiff interfacing and binding. :)
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