Friday night sewing

The news came today that Ofsted are going to be paying us a visit next Wednesday and Thursday. I'll still be on Jury Service. How lucky am I? I think we've been expecting them for a fair while and I think they've choosen a good time (for us - or at least my colleagues!) to come. Our Year 10s will be on work experience and our Year 12s left for study leave today. It's the people who have a full 6 lessons on those days with all Year 7, 8, 9 and 13 teaching (like my Head of Faculty!)

So, I decided I *needed* to do some sewing this evening. I made cards.

I hadn't been planning on making cards, but the Kid's Mail Swap got me thinking and half an hour later, they were done.


Made entirely out of scraps. I think a zig zag stitch may have been better, but I'm not very good at zig-zag and plus I quite like the 'rustic' feel to them.

Look familiar, lol?

Saturday morning project

I've had this idea in my head for a while now and finally got around to doing it this morning - in all of about 10 minutes!

I bought a set of 4 t-shirts for Cara from Next with the idea that I would decorate them. So, a piece of Sandi Henderson's Farmer's Market Apple Dot Pink, some wonderfully easy to use Steam-A-Seam, five minutes on the sewing machine and voila.

When I showed Cara, her response was "I like green apples." So, it's a good job I love this pattern so much, I've also got it in the green!

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