Fabric/Patterns and excitment in a small village.

Hello all, and welcome to my new followers,

I have been away for a while doing more fabric, pattern shopping and actually starting projects. While at the same time it's summer hols with three teens at home and still preparing for the new roof.

So whats with the news on projects lined up so far,

I have finally chosen my fabric for the walkaway dress sew-a-long with Edelweiss

In the end I decided to go with a day dress, something in cotton. Mainly because I am used to how cotton feels and sews up.

The spots are not as large as they look in the picture.

At the moment I am still bit a tad slighty unsure on what I think about the fabric. My main reasons for chosing it are, It was in my price range (and at 5 metres needed, at £ 3.30m  bargin) Being rather small I didnt want to be overloaded with an all over pattern with all that fabric. My Ideal would have been a pattern for the front central part of the dress and something plain to complement on the wraparound part, However I couldn't find this, If I found a pattern I couldn't find something simple to 'go with' , Hence the polka dots. And if it does perchance look 'off' well at least it's cheaper than calico at the moment so I can use it as my draft.

Also at the end of last week my fabric from Linton Tweeds arrived

(image copyright of Linton Direct)

as of yet I haven't got a pic of the fabric

and so the hunt was on for the perfect pattern to use this fantasic bargin fabric and today I saw my local fabric shop has an offer on Simplicity Patterns and there I found this

 I think view C and D would be just perfect ( it's the jacket and skirt in the lower left picture.)

And as for items currently drapped over Betsy (the dressform). There are two more Loud, Loud Shirts.
One waiting for buttons and holes (I forgot to buy them (Doh) and the other just needs side seams, hem, buttons and holes. Hopefully they will be finished tomorrow.

And before I leave you tonight dear followers here's what counts for excitment in our little village in Wiltshire, Yesterday all was quiet until my daughter screamed 'Mum come look NOW!'  I ran to her and what she wanted to show me was this

We weren't the only people out there taking pictures, (good to know) but they really were so very low. they started to land in the field just in front of our house, then lifted on up and carried on.
It was very cool.

Back to my (sewing) roots

I took a trip down memory lane while creating these little beauties. When I first started sewing it was patchwork that grabbed me. The small pieces of fabric that didn't need much concentration, no patterns, just sew together strips of different colours and textures to create a new piece of fabric. However I soon learnt that once the quilt top had been created next came the momenous task of the actual quiting part. Needless to say I have a very large stack of UFO quilt tops, some actually started but all need to be finished. On Wall hangings I am much better at getting them completed.

Anyway this leads me to my latest sweet-heart make up bags

view 1

view 2

internal view of bag with lovely pink crepe back satin

view 1

view 2 (makes me dream of lemon meringue)

more satin lining.

The outer fabric on both bags is Tilda design.  

Whats your favourite fabric construction ?  Crazy patchwork is another of mine, I think its the randomness and the heavy embelishment that I love especially when it made in deep autumnal colours.