Felt Christmas Decorations

 This week I have been making some decorations for Christmas.  I have lots of plans in my head for more but it is school holidays here and I keep getting distracted.  Distracted in a good way though by the munchkins. 
However, I did manage to make three gingerbread couples and three plum puddings.  I have also listed a couple of things in my shop this week.

Oh, and I also had a brief visit to spotlight and picked up some felt in a few lovely colours I haven't seen before. 

Spring in the Garden

The weekend was hot (Sunday was 33 degrees) and for a moment there I thought we had skipped spring and gone straight to summer!  Whilst I am in no hurry for summer to get here my garden seems to be in a rush!

 The fruit trees are blooming.  This one above is a peachcot tree.

 I believe I might get some olives this year!

 I have little zucchinis growing already.

 And have already picked two tomatoes with plenty more on the vine.

I have been spending far ore time in the garden lately than sewing and now I have a backlog of orders to get through.  So the next few days will see me sewing away.

Sushi Felt Play FoodTutorial

It is time to share!
One of my favourite sellers and the felt food most often commented on is my sushi.  Here is my tutorial for Sushi.  As with all the handmade toys and felt food I make, it is made for little people to play with.  So with this in mind I make my felt food for little hands and the food is slightly smaller than real food of its kind.  I also take great care to double stitch and make every little bit very secure.

SUSHI
1. Gather supplies.  Green felt cut in strips 2cm wide and 13 cm long.  White felt cut in 2cm width and 39 cm long.  Various little bits of felt for inside of sushi.

2. Place your preferred coloured bits of felt on edge of white felt strip and roll up.

3. Stitch through the whole of the roll and the edge of the felt.

4. Roll the green felt around the white and stitch the ends and through the roll so it is very secure.

Well how easy was that!  Childs play isn't it!  Be sure to let me know if you give it a go.  I would love to see your sushi.  Remember if you want yours bigger simply adjust the measurements given by a few centimetres each.  Good luck!

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Sowing/sewing

This week I have been enjoying the beginning of spring.  I have a mountain of orders to sew and send off  but, boy, am I finding it hard to stay inside and sew when the sun is shining and I just want to be out in my garden.

The garden has definately won out!  I have been in a frenzy getting the vegetable patches ready. I have dug them over, added blood and bone, mushroom and cow manure and covered them with pea straw. This year I have increased my vegetable plot by double and I am hoping for good things! 

I have loads of seeds growing and some just about ready to plant out.  Seeds I am growing this year include tomatoe (tiny tim and roma), zucchini, legbanese cucumber, basil (from last years saved seeds), snow peas, spaghetti squash, eggplants, chillies, beetroot,  pak choi, capsicum and coriander.

The fruit tree have all had a feed and I have blossoms on the peach, mandarin, lemons and peachcot trees.  The three olive trees look like they have very tiny olives too!

This week coming will have to see me doing more sewing though.  I have a lot of felt foods to finish off, some half assembled cloth books that need finishing off and a few ideas rolling about in my head for new felt play foods perfect for Christmas.