WOYWW...

 Here we are at our weekly catch up with our creative friends from all round the world....have I mentioned that it's my favourite day of the week?

I'm not sure my feet have touched the ground since we were here last week and last week ended on a high...

I was asked to make a Memory elephant in memory of a life long school friend.  The clothes that came for me to make it from lended themselves to a really special elephant.  The lady it was in memory of loved her costume jewellery and the centre of one of her neclaces fit across the front to perfection.....I think this has to be up there with my favourites.

I've even managed to find a little time to make the 9 squares for my next Fidgety quilt....just got to find time to make them up into a quilt now :-)

Phoebe and Lulu have spent some time sewing this week.

Lulu made herself a Minion pincushion.

Phoebe made herself a new hair scrunchie.

I get such a thrill knowing they choose to spend time using their sewing machine and creating.

That's all from me for today.  I will do my best to pop over to all I can.  I hope you're all well and finding time to be happy creating something special.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

It's been a busy desk here at Sewing by Annie's this week so I will share a few pics of what's been going on...

We were babysitting for Amy's three on Friday night and after picking the children up from school they requested crafty fun so we made pom-poms....Phoebe made the unicorn at the front and the two to the right are the two 'dogs' like their two at home that Lulu made from joining two together so they had heads and bodies.

This is the Arsenal pom-pom that Steve made.

The pom pom makers are brilliant for quickly making pom-poms so they get a result before boredom sets in for the younger children.

Phoebe wanted to make a heart to give to her mummy so we made a heart shape from card and stuck lots of pom-poms on the front and attached a ribbon so Amy could hang it up....I think we were all rather pleased with the results.

Making one pom-pom was as much as Steve wanted to make so he played with the Lego with his Grandad while I had a sewing session with the girls.

Phoebe is 10 now and Lulu will be 9 next month so I suggested they had a first lesson on the sewing machine....of course they jumped at the chance.

Here they are carefully cutting out some hair bows.  I don't have photos of them on the sewing machine because, of course, my hands were being used to guide them but ......

Here's the results....5 hair bows on bands and 7 hair scrunchies [one of the bows was already in Lulu's hair at this point :-)

It was a brilliant first lesson. They learnt how to..

• pin a pattern on two layers of different materials with the right sides together.
• carefully cut out the fabric around the pattern in the corner of the fabric so it's not wasting any
• Stitch the two layers together on the sewing machine on the seam allowance and leaving a gap to turn right sides out
• Turn right sides out of the bows and pushing edges out to the row of stitching to get a point and proper shape before pressing.
• Turn a tube right sides out and threading the elastic through for the scrunches.
• and of course which scissors are allowed for cutting paper/fabrics ;-)

They were really proud of the finished results and went to school Monday morning wearing one each so they could tell their teachers how they made them....and of course you can see just how much I love my grandchildren that I allowed them free choice of my fabrics :-) :-)

On my desk today is another little Memory bear being made from babygros so you can see my desk sure has had some action this week.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit this week....sorry it's a rather longer post this week.

Hugs,

Annie x