Stardust Cloth Shoes + Matching Bib

I made some things for Jaydee last night - a pair of little booties and a matching bib. The shoes were made using this awesome tutorial from stardust shoes. They are the second pair I made as the first ones turned out absolutely enormous and I had to adjust the pattern a bit to make them smaller.

No pattern for the bib, I just traced around one of his other bibs to get the general shape and then went from there. These pictures are a bit crap. It's overcast today so the lighting is terrible. They are much bluer in real life!

Fat Quarters

Guess what I just bought!? A whole bunch of cute fat quarters =D I'm so excited!! I'm going to make a billion coin purses!

Jeans Makeover

Ella's old jeans. They still fit her really well around the waist but the legs were way too short for her and there's 3 holes on one side where she got to them with a pair of scissors. I was going to throw them out but decided to have a go at fixing them.


I added ruffles to the bottom, covered the holes with flower appliques, and added ric rac to the pockets and covered the belt. I'm really pleased with how they turned out!

Fat Quarter

What to do with a fat quarter!? Lots of stuff =p I managed to use almost the entire piece, with just a few little scraps leftover.

Cloth nursing pads. I actually made two pairs of these but my overlocker ate the other pair :S

A little summer top for Ella.

An appliqued t-shirt, also for Ella.

A little coin purse

Another purse, this one is zippered

What it looks like without stuff spilling out of it...

Hair clips with "yoyo" embellishments and buttons.

DIY fabric covered button hair clips

Striped Apple Skirt

This was originally a dress that I made for Ella but it ended up being a complete disaster. It didn't fit properly and it just looked awful on her. Anyway, I chucked it in my scrap box to do something with later and today I decided to try and fix it. It was never going to work as a dress so I cut the bottom half off and the top half became a skirt. Ella loves it because it "twirls" now =p

Cloth Nursing Pads

I came across this tutorial for cloth nursing pads today and decided to give them a go. I've spent an absolute fortune on disposable nursing pads in the last 6 months, I wish I had known about these sooner! My first attempt was done with the overlocker but apparently the overlocker doesn't like it when I try to stitch in a circle and the result was a huge mess that got thrown straight into the bin. My second attempt was with the sewing machine and came out much nicer. I ended up making 4 pairs and have used one pair already, they work brilliantly.

Canvas Prints

These are some of the cute canvas prints that my sister made. If anyone is interested in buying some, leave me a comment here or email me (disarm-you@hotmail.com) and I'll pass the message on to her. She does custom prints too so if you're interested in any particular style/colour/pattern just let me know.

I've got these ones in Ella's bedroom, she absolutely loves them!

More Clips!!

I'm obsessed with making these things...

Tinkerbell Purse

Army Set For Jayden

It took me three goes to get the J right. First time I ironed the 'Heat N Seal' stuff to the wrong side of the fabric, second time I got it on the right side of the fabric but then I realised the J would be a mirror image and not the right way round. Third time I got it right! (Note: I didn't make the shirt, it's just a plain white shirt from Target that he already had, I only did the blue circle and the J)

Matching bib (which looks strangely off-colour in this shot). It's backed with soft towelling to make it nice and absorbent so Jaydee can dribble and drool as much as he likes.

And pants...

Jaydee looking a bit unimpressed.

Still not impressed.

Coin Purses

I made these little coin purses last night. It was a bit of an experiment and I'm not sure if I like how they turned out. I think I'll do a few more and change the style a bit and see if I can improve them. I gave the blue one to Ella and she immediately fell in love with it and started filling it with all her little 'treasures' ie. buttons, sequins, bits of ribbon lol. The button on that one isn't sewn on yet, I just stuck it there to see what it looks like.

Word Cloud

How cool is this?! You just copy and paste your text into the box and it creates a 'word cloud' using your words. Most used words are biggest, least used words are smaller. I made this one using part of one of my lj posts from earlier this week.

http://wordle.net/

A few dresses & a skirt

Striped Dress. The straps aren't finished yet, but I'm lazy so I just pinned them on for the photo =p


Tinkerbell Dress. This is the first thing Ella has actually kept on for more than 5 minuts. I wonder if Tinkerbell has anything to do with that?!


Polka Dot Skirt. I'm not sure if I like this or not, it sorta sits funny.

Birthday Party Ideas!