Mini Celebrations

We had a lot of fun watching Play School yesterday and celebrating 'Eva's Imagination' being read out. It brought back memories of the time when it was on every afternoon. The bubbles were non-alcoholic, and when the kids were little they certainly didn't have chocolate and crisps for afternoon tea. Who knows if this little bit of exposure will lead to more projects, but it was certainly fun!

Fabric and sewing plans

I finally received the fabric I ordered a while ago from Spoonflower and I'm looking forward to whipping up a few tea-towels. I love Spoonflower for all sorts of reasons, mainly the mock-ups and the design challenges though. Actually ordering and receiving fabrics in a timely manner is pretty restrictive when you live so far from the USA. I've decided to stick to NextState. It's local and many of the fabrics are locally farmed and woven. That's just sensible all round. Next year I'll be making some pretty baby wraps and muslins for markets. I've ordered some fabric labels for products, so I'll have to wait for them to arrive before I start on my tea-towels. In the meantime this gorgeous sewing pattern is waiting for me to sew something for myself for the Summer. I've ordered the fabric in the Lily pattern I created a couple of weeks ago.

Two weeks is a long time

It's hard to believe it's been just over two weeks since I had a nightmare phone call from my daughter travelling in Europe to tell me she'd been in an horrific coach crash. She's been home for ten days and is doing remarkably well considering what shes been through. So, as things seem to have settled just for a moment in our mad household we've decided to shake things up a bit with this little bundle. I stress about not having time to do all the design work I want to do. Not entirely sure how this is going to help. Christmas is going to be fun.