All in the cause of research!!!!

A strange sight on a street corner in Wendover last Saturday morning.  Ladies gathered, looking in  each other's brown paper carrier bags - lots of oohs and aahs.  You don't need too many guesses to know what they were looking at, and where they had been shopping!!!

So using the lovely Emmy Grace fabric, another bag had to be made. Experimenting to find the right interfacing and the right wadding is a wonderful excuse to buy and use the beautiful  fabrics at Plainstitch.  It would be rude not to!!

I have been addicted to knitting and felting bags for years, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before fabric bags just had to be made.  All in the cause of research, you understand!!!

A bargain, two bags for the price of one!!

Fabric Luurve - I've got it bad!

Have you seen the Emmy Grace fabric by Bari J in the PlainStitch ShopRoom? Well I'm a teeny bit well actually completely truly madly deeply in love with it , the beautiful vivid flowers on grey are just the most gorgeous combination, I literally can't get enough! (WARNING: if you want some go see Debs soooon as I don't think whats left on the bolt will be left for long! just saying!
First I bought a fat quarter, just to have in my stash, then a half metre to make into this ....HAPPY!

and it goes with this

I made it at the fab PlainStitch Clackety Clack Granny Bag Class with Debs and my lovely sewing friends. If you need a bag like this - I have 2 now and will make another as they are perfect - then Debs is running the next class on September 11th ! Happy Summer Sewing to you all.

"Reindeers are better than people....."

Well this is according to my biggest girl and Kristoff from Disney's Frozen (if you haven't seen it yet then PLEASE do!)
And this wonderful Ameo Designs "Frame Deer" fabric has arrived just in time for some serious summer sewing. Ameo Designs is the creation of surface and pattern designer (and local Halton friend) Vickie Price www.ameodesigns.com

I bought Vickie's beautiful place mats and scandi-butterfly coasters a while back and a few of us persuaded (ok begged) her to make up the stags head design in fabric , and very kindly she did! ps you can buy yours (and coasters and greetings cards) from Deb at the PlainStitch Workroom in Wendover www.plainstitch.co.uk and she is open for business every Thursday and Saturday during the summer hols - yippeee - but don't leave it too long as I already have my eye on more for another cushion and a lampshade and .....well , lots of other projects :)
I love the idea of locally designed and made and Vickie is so talented you will be blown away by her fabric, coasters, greeting cards and stunning wall paper! Thank you Vickie for giving me and many other sewing friends your unique and very special "creative lift".

2014/2015 Bee Dates For Your Diaries!

Here are the dates from September for The Wendover Sewing Bee. We will be at St Anne's on Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings once a month. There will be no Bee in August. As ever this is a drop in Bee, just £4 on the door and unlimited tea and coffee and biccies. Bring your own project and make some new friends or catch up with old.

See you on the 9th Sept

debs + helen xx

Inspirational Teens

We took delivery of a lovel;y collection of fabrics called Emmy Grace, inspired by the designers daughters and it reminded me of another Grace from a conversation at the Bee this week with  Caroline Mailes-Graham about her lovely teenage daughter Grace who is getting her gorgeous long hair shorn to be donated to children who are cancer sufferers to make wigs.

Those of you who know Caroline, know that this is a very dear topic, close to their hearts and I wanted to share the just giving site link here at justgiving.com in case you also wanted to encourage an inspiring teen making a very grown up sacrifice. Good on you Grace x

https://www.justgiving.com/Grace-Males/