Wishing on a White Christmas - FOLKSY

Wishing on a White Christmas




Go on treat yourself, not others, you know you want to....



Sometimes I wish (although I shouldn't waste a wish) I could have to homes one full of colour the other all white and creams, where I wear white linen trousers a slinky white top, I am 2 stone lighter has a healthy suntan, and chocolate doesn't drop on my lap, and wine wine doesn't stain.These are just a small collection of folksy's whites and creams.

Happy Friday, and don't forget treat yourself.
Kx

p.s click on the picture to go to the Folksy shop.

Mmmm Scrummy Bias Bindings

I have been waiting for these to drop through the post,

and finally have my fix of spotty bias bindings!

Following a long search for the best in scummy bias bindings, I now want to stock every colour and type possible (a binding geek in the making!).

Watch this space for my next lot of gingham coming soon and some super college stripes!

All for sale in my blondesbackyard shops on folksy and etsy.

Get your colour fix now, just scroll  down........

Kxx

Let it Snow Let it Snow

I know I know, by the weekend we will be sick of snow, but for now it remains pretty, the air is so silent, and all we can hope for is everybody bored at home on thier computers finding things to buy on folksy & Etsy!

So I can't get into work, and have a list of things to sew, and the bright light from the snow means I may just get a couple of photos taken!

Kx

New Packaging.......

 I got bored with my plain luggage tags for my bias binding, buttons & pincushions in my blondesbackyard shop, so using my blog header, played around on photoshop and a ream of white card later, I now am happy happy happy with my new image coming through.

It may give me the boot up the backside to get packs organised and go to shops that are likely to want to stock this type of supply items, giving them a discount, reommended selling price and see what happens.........

Thats on the new year list!

Kx



HO! HO! HO!

HO! HO! HO!

Finally got around to finishing some mini 10" linen Christmas Elf Stockings, for sale in my blondedesign shop, EVEN though I have a list now reaching approx 20 orders. But I needed to take time out, just to do my bits, otherwise I will be sewing Elf stockings in January.... Which doesn't seem like a bad idea. So note to self, do not attempt to 'make' come up with 'ideas' from MID October to I guess MID December.

Make Stockings in the summer slump or no joke January

and make THREE of everything or at least two

BE prepared for custom orders.

Happy Sunday, I'm off to cut felt strips for my pincushion rings to sew on the train at 6.30am, I have a 300 ring blanks to make (not all at once!) - and as I sold 5 today alone, I need to replenish the non existent back up stock!

And a BIG sorry I am reading blogs but no time to leave messages, maybe by mid December, normallity will reture to my house and I can get a haircut, go for a coffee, and and see the seafront once more.

Karen X

SUPERHERO BEANBAGS

A super large project I was working on for a customer, 1m square beanbag cushions. Fully lined with internal zip to top up beanbags, and zip on the outer cushion. Baby cord in super bights that I now can get in lime, blue, black and yellow! Selling these as custom orders on babyblondedesign in customers own colour preferences. And I already have an order for one at work!

Is anybody else having lack of time to blog? Just wish I was this busy all year around, maybe I could one day get the dream of giving up working for somebody else. I just need more hours, I have so may ideas and things to make, but all I am doing is making custom orders from folksy and etsy! I had a plan of making tons of elf stockings to sell at work, so far the fabric still sits on the shelf in the cupboard.

Kxx

LOVE TOTES

New to my blondedesign shops, fully lined 20" x 14" shopping totes, with an added bit of love!

Happy Weekend.

Kx

Dear nephew Thomas I'm a bad Auntie

Dearest Thomas

I know quite a while ago, (2 years....) I started to make your name in felt to spell THOMAS, I made the T and M in blue felt, and then I made the O and S in lime green felt, and finally should have made the yellow H and A to finish your name. So for now we will have to call you TOMS.

I got an email message from a buyer on folksy asking if I did felt letters as they were missing a couple as their supplier had let them down, and could I do them quick as they had been waiting a while for them.

Thomas as you know I am blonde, (with a little help from a bottle), but blonde all the same. I replied saying, of course I could, just let me know the sizes and colours and if you have a picture of the other letters I could them match them up. (At this point I would like to let to let everybody know, I did not have a clue this was sis-inlaw and my cute nephew wondering if he will ever get his letters before his 10th or even 18th birthday!).

And then the picture arrived....

So Thomas, I promise tomorrow night I WILL be making your missing felt letters. And you will recieve them before the week is out. And when I see you you will get a big sloppy kiss, even if you don't want one, and I have to chase you around the garden.

With lots and lots of love (and a massive SORRY)

Auntie Karen xxxxxxxxxxx

FINALLY FINISHED QUILT

 Feel like I have been making this quilt for ever, but now I have the bug!

Laura Ashley and a bit of vintage floral thrown in (same as my FQ floral bundles I sell.)

 Pre-washed, to pucker the fabric giving it a vintage feel.

 Free hand stitching on the gingham.

I machine bound the front of the binding and hand stiched the back.

Kx

TIME FLIES!

 Where does the week go! I didn't feel like sewing all week, I think it was the weather change, going to work in the dark at 6.30am and arriving home in the dark at 6.30pm, think I was going through a week of SAD syndrome, or it could have been to do with taking my calorie intake down to around 1000 and having no energy to do anything. But I feel great now and have lost 6lb in the week, so I am going to up the intake just a little so I can lose less next week a max of 3lb.

 These are a few tissue cases I have made today, I am liking the 'clashing colours'

 This is new in a wonderful blue no fold 1 inch bias binding, for sale in blondesbackyard for only 30p per metre. This will make great ruffles along the bottom of a skirt or even down the front of top, on cuffs, or to jazz up a tote bag.

This baby pink single bias binding 1 inch folds to 1/2 inch, is perfect for binding the edge of baby quilts, this colour also goes great with grey, and I have some grey linen coming in, so I will be attempting cute bound purses in this with the grey linen. this is 45p a metre in blondesbackyard.

Have a great weekend, and I forgot to do the wool FQ giveaway, so i will be uploading tomorrow, and do the draw later in the week.

Kx