Ella's Felt Photo Frame

Ella has been off school for the last 7 days with Swine Flu so it was the perfect opportunity to do some art and craft :) One of our projects was a photo frame made out of felt. We cut a rectangle of felt, then I got Ella to stitch around the outside with some red embroidery thread. After she'd finished stitching we measured the size of a photo and cut out the middle part just a little bit smaller than a photo (so the photo sits behind it), then she stitched around that part too. Next comes the fun part - decorating! Ella raided my sewing boxes and chose buttons, ribbons, little flower embellishments and some bows.

Concentrating very hard!

The end result

I have many many more projects and pictures to post but it's going to take a while so I think I'll space them out a bit and do one every few days.

Spring Ruffle Top

I made this little top for Ella today using the Spring Ruffle Top Tutorial by Rae from the Sew Mama Sew blog which can be found *here*



I had to adjust the ruffles on the straps quite a bit because the tutorial is for an adults top and they looked massive on Ella since her shoulders are so tiny. I probably should have adjusted the width of the actual straps too but by the time I realised how wide they were it was too late =p Overall though, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

This is probably the first time EVER that I've been able to follow a tutorial and do things properly =p My usual method is just to cut blindly without measuring and then sew blindly without using pins (or anything else that I should be using) and hope that it turns out okay.