WOYWW...

 Hello all.  There's not many of these gatherings left before Christmas now and I've been being kept on my toes with making Memory bears and tackling other challenges.....wait til you see what that was!!!

The two Memory bears and elephant I told you I was making to go with the other's I had previously made have been received by my customer through the post and she put them all together and sent me the photo at the bottom of the pic....don't they look lovely all together?

Since then I've made 5 Memory bears for a customer down in Cornwall in memory of her husband....and may be having orders for more from there at some point for other family members.

I have also made one for a local customer out of her much loved Dad's jacket....and will be getting more orders from other family members soon too.

This was my biggest challenge of the week and I know it's one that will make you chuckle.  It's not every day you are asked to reshoe a 4 foot unicorn!!  I knew I was expecting the unicorn to arrive but I had no idea at all just how big it would be and my face must have been a picture when I opened the door to my customer!!

In the top pic you can see his worn out pink shoes and my customer had brought 2 cushion covers to replace this fabric with.  The original fabric was stretchy and the new wasn't so that was the first problem to start with.  I had to make a pattern without removing the old shoes and the new ones had to be stitched on by hand because, as you can imagine a 4 foot unicorn doesn't fit under the sewing machine!!

But, you know me, I love a challenge and the unicorn is being picked up with his new shoes later today and will be going home to one very happy little 6 year old girl.  :-)

I bet not one of you can say they have made new shoes for a unicorn before but if you have one that needs reshoeing then you know I have a pattern made for it  :-)

I hope you have all had a good week and will leave me a little message so I know you've called by.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

Well, what a hive of industry it's been here at Sewing by Annie's this week.  It's all or nothing when it comes to customers at the mo and having had no customers for weeks it was a bit of a shock to the system to have 3 Memory bears to make, two pair of jeans to shorten and a Nursing Sister's dress to shorten in just two days at the end of last week!  So without more a do here's my desks today.....

On my computer desk are the three little Memory bears waiting to be collected....in fact since this photo was taken the little navy one at the back [made out of a Nursing Sister's uniform dress on her retirement] has now been posted to Yorkshire .....that's another area of the country I've reached with them now :-)

The one front left is a school bear made out of an old school uniform for a little girl moving to a new school and the one front right is made from tiny babygros to go in a little girl's memory box with her when she moves from her foster home to her new forever home.....such a lovely idea and it makes this one very special.

Of course with me being so busy the playmat is slow going [but there's no rush].  It now has a flower garden, a vegetable garden, a pond, a ploughed field with little bales of hay in one corner and I'm now working on a den for Peter Rabbit in the far right corner with a few bushes in front of it so he can hide from Mr McGregor. :-)

I'm really enjoying creating and am searching round my sewing room for ideas of what to do next. :-)

Not my desk but I thought you'd like to see what Phoebe and Lulu have been sewing with their mummy.....they have certainly caught the sewing bug. :-)

This is Phoebe's unicorn and....

....this is Lulu's sock monkey.  They are both made from kits but arent they gorgeous?  It really thrills me to see them sewing[....even if their mummy isn't a very keen sewer she can do it!....I know cos she had a good teacher :-) ].

That's all I have to share with you this week but before I go I just want to wish Lulu a very happy 9th birthday today.  I hope you have just the best birthday ever...where have those 9 years gone?

Hugs,

Annie x