Annies Shack

Ok, I am busy getting little bits and pieces ready for our next craft stall which is in November so it should be good. I have made quite a few small items already for selling and I needed something to display them in, so I thought a basket with a lining would look nice, I thought a nice box and then KJ said why don't I sew one, what a brilliant idea as the stall is about sewing so follow me as I make the box. I need to tell you I am completely making this up and have made a mistake already, but guess what, my mistake turned out making my box even prettier, have a look at this. So first of all I cut out a piece of backing fabric and attached all little strips vertically, this is one side, so I have to make 3 more of these. Mistake 1 I attached the lining and turned it inside out, pressed, then the mistake dawned on me, I hadn't attached the corner ribbon closures. Then I was going through my sewing draw and had a good idea. If I attach some of my ribbon along th...

Saturday - myself and my sister in law did our first craft stall ever, it was an experience and we learned a lot, ideas, layout and to take a book for quite periods. Here we are all set up and ready to sell, that's me in the black t-shirt 😊 We took far too much different stock to sell, the table we used was really big and we had all the following for sale bunched up on this table: Fashion jewellry Makeup Greeting cards My handmade items It doesn't sound like a lot, but we had it all in tubs and it was just messy. My handmade bags had to lay flat and bunched on top of each other so they couldn't really be seen which was a shame. There weren't that many people shopping, but we did manage to sell a few bits, really today was a learning curve for us and we also met some really lovely people, it was a nice day. We have booked in to do another craft fair in November and I have lots of plans how to layout the stall, it will be fabulous if I can pull ...

Here is another one I have made recently, I love this, it is so girly with it's shades of pink fabric. It has a really fabulous shade of pink lining, and has two nice size pockets inside, these photos don't do this bag justice. You can find this one on Annies Shack if you are interested in this bag. Note:  If you are interested in this bag, please note that I only ship to the UK at the moment.

As promised, here is my green and blue patchwork tote finished. Features: 1. large pocket on the front 2. fully lined 3. two large pockets inside 4. magnetic closure I added black base to the bottom, I think it's lovely, I really enjoyed making this bag, you can find it in Annies Shack for sale. I really enjoy making patchworks, I love the way all the colours blend in together, the bag actually looks a lot better in reality, I'm not very good taking photos of things, I think I need some lessons in photography, mmm something to think about for the future.  You can see here the lovely cream lining and the two large open pockets with a black trim to match the outside trim, you can also see the magnetic closure. You can use this bag for a shopper or just about anything really, it's a nice size and real good quality. Happy Days

I didn't get very far today with my sewing project, I followed the pattern for the pocket that goes on the lining, the pocket came out ok, but when I tried to sew the edges together the zip down the edge was folded over and guess what? MY NEEDLE BROKE! I have only been sewing 2 days on this project and so far I have managed to break 2 needles 😞 I have undone the pocket and started again with my own version which hopefully won't cause me any grief. I haven't finished the pocket yet, I will update here when it's done. Have a great day!

Ok, I started my sewing bag and I have had a few mistakes along the way already 😒 M istake   1 I cut out the first few pieces of fabric and did them all wrong so KJ took over.  I have trouble cutting out fabric, I use scissors which don't always give me straight edge, when I use my large quilting ruler and my cutter the ruler tends to move as I get near the end of the cut so I struggle a bit with cutting. It took ages ironing all the interfacing on, there are so many bits to this bag.  M istake   2 Once my pieces were all ironed I then got my wadding and the front and lining of the back of the bag and off to my lovely machine I went. Oh I forgot to tell you, I drew all the lines on the front and lining pieces ready for quilting, I used a red drawing pen that disappears when it's ironed, how clever is that 😉 I attached my walking foot and started to sew, I obviously didn't attach it properly because as I started to sew ...