WOYWW....

Another week has passed and  life here is always pretty hectic,,,,,that's the way I like it  :-)
This week has included...

• Knitting
• Sewing
• Opening wonderful parcels of donated fabrics
• Cutting out of very many little dresses for little girls in Africa
• Gardening
• Chopping down trees 
• Picking wonderful fresh vegetables and eating them same day
• Enjoying family times
• Going to the cinema to see the latest Harry Potter film
• Baking bread
• Shopping
• Writing yet more letters for solicitors to sort out our dear neighbours affairs
• Oh yes....and a little cooking, cleaning and housework  :-)

How many hours are there in a day?  Did I manage to sleep?
What's on my desk today then?

Shhhhhhh....Please don't tell anyone cos I only have one pair of trousers on my 'to do' rail today.  Only a little picture cos I hope no one will notice  :-)

But I do have a box overflowing with ready cut out little dresses to run up and that's what I plan to fill my day with today.

And for all those who love to see a little of what's happening in the garden I just thought I'd add a couple of snaps to show you I'm in the pink today  :-)  Hope you leave a quick comment before you leave and pop over to Julia's blog to join in the WOYWW madness.  Have a great week.

22, 23 and 24...

I have had a fun afternoon today making some of the little dresses Twiglet helped me cut out yesterday.

Number 22 is made using some of the gorgeous fabric Anne sent me.  I added a little pocket on the front and trimmed it up with bright yellow bias binding.

Number 23 is made using some material out of my fabric boxes trimmed up with a pale green pocket and bias binding.

Number 24 is made using some fabric I made a long dress for me many many years ago. [In the days when you wore a long dress to go to a disco....showing my age now!!].  It was just enough fabric to make a tiny dress with but I'm sure even tiny girls need clothing out in Africa.  I've trimmed it up with a pretty pink pocket with blue bias edging.

Can you tell I am really loving making these little dresses and I've had the promise of more fabric today too  :-)  :-)

Our Funday Monday....

Twiglet came down this morning with these beautiful freesias.  Thanks Jo.  She knows they are my favourite but they were also the favourite of our Mum and today would have been her birthday.  We put them in my sewing room window and have both enjoyed their perfume while we share our memories of that very special lady in our lives.  She would have loved to have seen us working and laughing together today while we cut out lots more little dresses for the African girls......Happy Birthday Mum xxxx

This was my table first thing this morning and since then we have carefully cut out dresses from all the wonderful material....a lot of which has been very kindly donated by blogging friends......we have put each little cut out dress with it's bias strips and pocket pieces into it's own little bag so that now we can quickly run up a little dress in between other sewing jobs.

This is the little twinnie's waistcoat I finished last night....cute eh?  Pink girly one in the making next  :-)

Look what the postman brought today....

I want to say a huge thank you to Anne and Wanda for sending me material to make more little dresses with.  I am pretty blown away by their generosity and will soon cut out and make gorgeous little dresses with the beautiful material they have both sent.

Anne sent me 4 gorgeous pieces of children's printed material.  These will make really cute little dresses so thank you so much Anne for being so generous.

Wanda sent me 4 pillow cases and two pretty pieces of material all the way from USA......the world really is a smaller place to be isn't it?  Thank you so much Wanda.  We will have a lot of fun making all this gorgeous fabric up into pretty little dresses.

As they say the more the merrier.  The 30 dresses we have already made are now winging their was to Louise so I can now fill my rail with more pretty dresses.  Thank you all for your wonderful support for this great cause.  I am happy to have any spare pillow cases or pieces of cotton/poly cotton fabric posted to me and will keep running up as many little dresses as I have spare time for....I am really loving the challenge and having little girls in our own family makes me realise how important feeling pretty is to all little girls the world over.

Friday night's fun time...

As I said in one of yesterday's posts Twiglet was coming down for a fun evening last night and the plan was to parcel up the dresses we had finished to send to Louise at Sew Scrumptious.  Twiglet had managed to make three more dresses in the afternoon taking her total up to 9 and I managed another one yesterday afternoon to take my total to 21.

Here is the last one I made to go in this parcel.  It's made from material from a double quilt cover with a pretty little pocket on the front....so plenty more fabric left to make other.

We then parcelled up our 30 little dresses and I will post them later this morning.  It was such a thrill to see them all together and we would really love to see Louise's face when she opens the parcel.

Twiglet then lifted down my boxes of stored fabric pieces and we found enough fabric to make 5 more dresses and many more other pieces to trim up others.  Probably the next time you see these pretty fabrics they will be trimming up lots more little dresses cos we will be making the next batch very soon.

What a pretty pair....

Twiglet is coming down for the evening tonight [whilst the men are at a footy match] and we intend to parcel up the dresses we have made so far to post them to Louise so me, being me, and my OCD, had to round my dresses up to the 20.  :-)  After all 18 just wouldn't do would it?  :-)

So here is the pretty pair of dresses I have just ran up this morning in my coffee break  :-)

They are both made from pillowcases and I've used the trimmings from the one to pretty up the other....nothing gets wasted here  :-)

So Louise keep an eye out for that postman cos they will all be winging their way to you very soon.

If there is anyone wanting to know more about the Dresses for Africa then please pop over to Louise's blog and if you are unable to sew but would like to support the great cause I am more than willing to make dresses out of any pillowcases or pretty cotton/poly cotton fabric you are willing to donate to the cause.  Just email me at wipso@toucansurf.com for details.

Colour from our garden....

I had a quick walk around our garden last night snapping a bit of colour to share with you.

It's not the best snap cos he didn't really want to pose for me but this is our visiting woodie feeding on the nuts literally just 4 foot from the shed I was standing in  :-)

These are a couple of the thistles in our wild area at the bottom of our garden....some,as you can see, are rather more planned than others  :-) The finches will enjoy these when they go to seed.

The veg garden is looking good too....here are the kidney beans now growing big enough for the picking and sharing....you need to help yourself Twiglet.  :-)

We have put a new obelisk for our everlasting sweet pea to grow up this year and it really seems to be enjoying it's new home

Wow.....look at my poppies now.....just my most fav flower.  They are such a stunning bright red at the mo.

And to finish off here's one to put a smile on every face.  Sunshine on a stem....cos there isn't much up in the sky here today so far.  Enjoy your weekend.

I'm hooked.....

I am really loving making these little dresses for African girls and have to say I'm rather hooked now.  I have been promised lots more material so I shall be setting to and making all I can in the spare time I have during my working days.  It's such a well worth while cause so I feel my time is being spent wisely.

Therefore I just might be posting a few dresses to keep you posted each day or so.  These are my today's selection.....

This is another one made with the blue sheeting one of my customers gave me trimmed up with the trimmings from a dress I shortened for another of my customers....A great way of using up such pretty materials don't you think?

This is one made from the navy spotted material Penny sent me from France.  Being a darker fabric we thought it would make really pretty dresses for bigger girls and I've trimmed this one up with white bias binding and a pretty embroidery anglaise pocket.....I hope you approve Penny.

Another little dress made using the blue sheeting but this time trimmed up with bias and pockets made using the pretty quilt cover I picked up in a charity shop....a gain gain situation don't you think?

I can see a parcel will be heading your way pretty soon Louise to make room for the next batch here  :-)

If you want to learn more about why I'm making little dresses then please pop over to Louise's blog at Sew Scrumptious.  If you are unable to make the dresses yourself but have fabric you are willing to donate I will keep running up as many little dresses as I have time for.  I'm really loving the challenge.  Just email me for details of where to post to.