Challenge – Day 7 – The End!

Ah ha! I have completed the challenge my husband set me a week ago – to make five things a day for a week.

Each day I have racked my brains for ideas of what to make, surfed Pinterest and even dreamt of things. Each time when I asked my husband for ideas he kept saying Pumpkins and Crocodiles. We have a running joke about making a crocodile after some time last year when he drew me an idea for a crocodile on a Post-It note and I have always avoided making one.

So the first thing I made today was… a crocodile!

The Beast was an utter gem with this one. We might become good friends one day!

I then made… hanging pumpkins!

Next it was another set of hair grips – this time I went for a pirate theme – because girls like pirates too you know! These are done on glittery felt for that extra bit of zing!

Then finally after being inspired by the knitted hedgehog from my Mum I decided to make a little hedgehog brooch out of felt.

So after this week of making things I am a bit pooped. Like I’ve said before, I don’t work fast, I make mistakes, I unpick things, I glue myself to the table, I shout at the sewing machine, I jab myself with the needle at least 8 times a day, I drop stuff all the time and I get easily distracted by the interpipe.

I have also finally added the items from the last couple of days and today to the shop so you can find them here:

Lobster, Kangaroo, Sock Pig, Camera Brooch, Daschund, Crocodile, Hedgehog, Hanging Pumpkins, Pirate Hairgrips, Anenome Hairgrips, Grey & Blue Pearly Hairgrips and Dragon.

Thanks for following me on this challenge!

 

 

Challenge – Day 6!

Today has been a fairly good day. I have not shouted at The Beast once! I have only dropped things a few times and haven’t sworn that much!

Day 6’s efforts are these wonderous items!

A rather lush little daschund….

A set of lovely anenome felt embroidered hair grips…

A camera brooch!

And a quite awesome kangaroo finger puppet!

Hopefully will get the last two days worth of items up on the shop tonight or tomorrow!

Only one more day of the challenge to go!

Challenge – Day 5!

So today I ended up cheating a little as I finished off something I started to make over a year ago! I found him looking a little sorry for himself in my sock bag with no eyes, no tail and a messy looking rear end! Now he is looking somewhat better!

Then I made a set of two hairgrips – and the little card to present them on.

And lastly two rather cool little finger puppets – The Green Dragon and The Lobster…

They will be in the shop tomorrow!

Challenge – Day 4

So I have already made my items for today’s challenge. (Get me!)

I was a little inspired by my dino magnets yesterday with the whole felt and fabric thing and as I have this great die cutter my husband bought me for my birthday in July, it is just perfect for doing repeatable items for precision especially when you want to make a set of something and consistency is key.

I have this great fabric with a bird motif and I thought perhaps they might help accent some star shaped hanging decorations.

And I am not sure why I haven’t done something like this sooner, as they are my favourite animal ever – Behold the Platypus brooch!

I also made this little bookmark – with a cow parsley embroidered detail.

As usual you can find them for sale in my shop – Stars, Bookmark and Duck Billed Love.

Oh and one of my challenge items has just sold on Etsy – my awesome little bat from Saturday! Whoop whoop!

Challenge – Day 3

Monday I felt a bit manic and rushed. I spent a couple of hours sorting out photos from the weekend’s work and listing things on Etsy and finishing off painting the front door…

At one point The Beast (aka the sewing machine) decided it hated my sock material and all it wanted to do was chew it up in its feed dogs and I started to get a bit hot and bothered.

Then my Dad sent me a text asking if I was around that afternoon as he wanted to call me for a chat so I was feeling under pressure to get things done. In the end we spoke at around 8pm so the whiff of desperation had faded by then!

So Monday’s efforts went like this… Bertram the Bunny…made of (clean) socks and buttons and a scrap of felt.

The coolest little dino magnets – cunningly displayed here on the magnetic wall in my kitchen which is plastered with magnetic poetry, family photos, the alphabet, numbers and a handy reminder that 7am is morning time for my stepson – rather than 6am or any other unholy hour.

You can also find these little beauties on my shop – Bertram and The Dinos!

Challenge – Day 2

So Sundays efforts on the challenge went a little something like this…

Some decidedly unspooky ghosts…

A rather super awesome little witch doll…

A non-Halloween fox brooch!

All listed on my shop here, here and here!

A challenge…

On Saturday my husband decided to set me a challenge, to make 5 things each day of the week this coming week. I accepted said challenge and have made ten items already, five on Saturday and five on Sunday. May not seem like a high figure, but as you may have realised by now I tend to make things up as I go, so it’s not like using a set pattern you have used time and time again, with pre-cut bits all sitting and waiting to be used. Most of my items are hand sewn and are not the work of mere moments.

He also tasked me to start making things for Halloween – yes, I know it is the start of September, but I need to get myself all stocked up! So queue several Halloween themed items to begin with!

I decided to make a little set of four hanging heads and a bat (may make more of these cute little bats – pretty easy – although admittedly the first time around I put the wings in the wrong way round and had to unpick and do it again… *sigh*)

So here are the ones from Saturday! My husband’s favourite is the zombie…As you can see I used felt and played about with some white bias binding for the mummy, had fun making the exposed zombie brain and his dangling eye!

And you can find them listed on my shop here and here.