Apologies for my lack of blogging at the moment, but with new fabrics coming in and holding workshops every week, there's just not enough hours in the day.... Here are the latest photos of the two scarf workshop from yesterday:

As promised more bags :-)

New bags

I will be exhibiting at the Flower and Food Festival in Dundee next week and the preparations in my sewing room are well underway. I've tried a new bag pattern from the Farbenmix CD Taschenspieler, and I must say this one in really fun to make, done in an afternoon, and somehow addictive...

I'm sure there will be some more soon :-)

It was so nice

having my friend from Germany here for a week. We had a lovely time catching up over various glasses of wine :-), we went shopping, to the beach, and even did a bit of sewing. It went too quickly though, as always....

Boys Boys Boys

A few things I've made for the next craft fair - the Flower and Food Festival in Dundee at the beginning of September:

 Size 92, age 2

 Size 86/92, age 2

 Size 110/116, age 5-6

Size 92, age 3

A bag goes into retirement

When my friend Jo bought an El Porto bag from me last year (round about April), she said she needed it for carrying her stuff about with her. Jo is a fitness instructor and walks everywhere and only occasionally takes the bus. So the El Porto bag was the ideal solution with its many pockets and the spacious body. For normal use I would say a bag like this would probably have lasted a little longer, but not when you walk with it about 20miles a week. Definitely not. I have to share the photos before and after with you as I've never ever seen a bag being so used as hers:

 and this is what she carries around with her to work, unbelievable, but it all fits in.

And here is her new bag:

waiting to be packed :-)

Lanzarote 2013

It was lovely! Two weeks of summer, sunshine, sea and great food - the hotel was great, the beach just across the road, the village not far away for a little walk. If Leoni wasn't in the pool, she was either in the Hotel's art studio or kids club or playing with a little girl she met right on the third day (they were inseparable). It's just as shame that two weeks fly so quickly.....