Still here!

Yes still here - if a post was written for every time I thought that I must go and post at my Blog - then you would get tired of my posting!  I don't think I have ever had as much going on with my Family and trying to juggle a business at the same time.  My girls have really needed my focus lately and that has meant that things like blogging have had to go on the back burner. 

I have been sewing lots of Aprons all ready for Perth Upmarket on October 2nd.

 I have gone to a short course on Crochet down at Calico and Ivy.  Mostly I learnt about all the things I was doing wrong with my Crochet and now here is the start of a Scarf that hopefully will be ready for next Winter.  I am going to thread Liberty Tana lawn through this and I am so in love with the colours from peacock feathers that they were my inspiration for the colour theme of the scarf! 

I have also put the finishing touches on my Smiling Santas Felt Kits - these will go into my Etsy shop hopefully in the next day or two.  Lots of people last year asked if these ready made Santas were available in a kit and well now, in time for this Christmas they are all ready to go.

To Market, To Market

I think I said last post that it has been very busy behind the scenes here at Tied with a Ribbon Head Quarters.  The next Perth Upmarket is on Sunday June 26th at U.W.A - so I have been getting lots of new items ready and giving some of my other favourites a makeover.   If you are in Perth and want to get out and see some beautiful home wares, jewellery, clothing for kids and adults as well as great food and lots of other handmade items then come along for a great day out.  Want to see all I have been getting ready for Market?

Introducing my new Felt Kit - Babushka Beauties.  These are the newest addition to my range of Kits that encourage anyone to pick up some sewing and have a go - especially children.  Although Babushka's are not new around I thought it was time to add these very girly treasures to my range.

I have also put together some fabric and embellishment packs which I have called - Sew Cute Scraps.  These are a selection of fabrics, ribbons, buttons, braids and ric racs. 

I love making Aprons - I love making each one of them as a one off handmade creation to reflect peoples personalities or to match the decor within the kitchen they end up in.  Now all of my Aprons have one of my favourite recipes Tied with a Ribbon to them!



I have also been working on some Christmas Stitcheries together with Claire Turpin Design.  I showed you a little sneak peak a couple of posts ago - here is the finished design - what do you think?

Kits of these will also be available at Perth Upmarket.

Look at my crochet squares - they are multiplying at a rapid rate - I love seeing the colours all stacked up.  I just have to learn now how to sew them all together. 

Here are 52 squares - the pattern still needs another 250 plus squares of varying sizes - so this will take a little longer than I first figured!  But I am loving it.

Goings on this week and Giveaway winner

After a fantastic day at Perth Upmarket last Sunday I have been left gobsmacked at the response not only on the day but also since continuing.  Thanks to all those who came along and said hello.  I was wonderful to meet some of my Blog and Facebook readers in person and I appreciate your support.

This photo was taken with my I-phone.  Hubby said I wasn't allowed to take my camera as I still don't have a bag for it yet - but with a new Epiphanie bag on its way to me for Mother's day soon I will be coming out everywhere with me. Can't wait to show you it when it arrives.

I have been sewing lots of Bunnies and Easter Eggs this week.  And I have also been sewing lots of new Aprons with Mother's Day coming up.

A few weeks ago now I won a Giveaway and won a great gift pack. I won a huge lot of embroidery threads and some mini hoop frames. The girls and I have been putting these goodies to great use.  The girls used some Sublime Stitiching iron on transfers that I had and made these sweet little faces with all the supplies I won.  This is my eight year old's stitching that she made along with some of our winnings.

And now for the winner of my Birthday Giveaway:

Melissa said...

I love the bouncing bunnies - too, too cute - my girls would love making these in our craft room (if I only had time.... only time...). Happy Birthday!



Congratulations Melissa - I will send you an email and get your prize off in the mail to you.


This week I want to spend a bit of time revamping my Blog.  I want to add some pages and other features so stay tuned and hopefully I won't need a Masters in Computers to work it all out!!!

I love my new Camera!

I have been spending a bit of time lately playing with my new camera.  I love it and I can definitely see that it was well worth the investment.  I have been out and about taking some shots of the bunting that I showed you in a previous post.  While it will take me a little while to work out all the things it can do I hope you too can see the difference in the quality of my photos (still need to work on setting up shots though!)

All the Easter Eggs I started a few weeks ago are now finished and so to are some bunnies that I started.  With my next Perth Upmarket only a few weeks away I have been stocking up on these.  I hope you have enjoyed making the ones in my Tutorial in the last post.  If you have made some I would love to see some pictures.  If you would like some ready made or a kit to make your own there are some in my Etsy shop.

 I have been sewing lots of Aprons lately.  This sweet cupcake Apron has been sent of to its new owner and I love my new Mannequin to help as a prop for my photos.  I came across her in a Secondhand store a few weeks ago while on the hunt for a mannequin and she was just perfect.  I also roped in one of my closest friends to model some of my Aprons for a Mother's Day Flyer which I will show you next post.  You can see lots of my Aprons on my Facebook page in the Apron Album.

We have been celebrating lots of birthdays recently and this year I thought I would go with a PJ theme.  They make a great present and I love choosing fabric that I will think will go with each kids personality.

A special thanks to those who have left comments on my last few posts.  It has been great to read your thoughts on all the things I get up to in my sewing room and know that someone else is interested.  I think I do tend to bore my family with all my talk about fabric, patterns, craft and all things sewing!

How did it get to the week before Christmas!

I know that I have been planning and making Christmas treasures for ages now but seriously - how did we get to the week before already!! 

I had a parcel of fabric arrive last week from Ballarat Patchwork.  They were having a sale so I treated myself to some fabrics and some books and Patterns. A girl can never have to much fabric (can she!!!).

I am especially keen to get started on one of the projects from Janelle Wind's Book - Pieces of Me.  I finally entered the world of the 21st Century and got an i-phone and so what do you need most importantly when you get one?  Yes of course you need a cover for it.  There is a beautiful cover in Janelle's book so I hope to show you next time some completed photos of my i-phone cover.

I also made some Aprons for my girls with some Amy Butler laminated fabric that I also bought.  My girls love art and crafting and mostly this involves lots of mess and paint so I wanted to make some Aprons that I could just wipe off.  I have not worked with laminated fabric before so I was a little unsure of things like when I normally iron the press hems - how do I do this with a plastic coated fabric?  And the fabric was folded so how do I get out the creases?  If anyone can help me out would love to know the secrets of working with this type of fabric.

It looks like Christmas

Most of what I have been working on this week has a Christmas flavour about it.  All those Christmas Fabrics that I showed you in my last post now look like this

Lovely Christmas Aprons - some of which have already gone to be tucked away as Christmas Gifts.

I have also been working with these fabrics which are going to be turned into a Christmas Table Runner to match its new owners Christmas Scheme. 

And after all the Christmas Sacks that I have been making for others my two girls wanted to know where theirs were.  So after discussions about which colour and characters each wanted I have been working on completing one for them each. 

Love Birds

Well I finally got to take the picture of the Machine cover that I had made a couple of weeks ago at Sunday Stitching.  This sits on my mum's sewing machine, well one of her machine any how as a few months after making her the first one, mum upgraded her sewing machine only to suggest that she would also need a cover for her new machine!!!

The revamp has continued in my sewing room.  Many, many months ago I bought this big white frame from Ikea, always with the intention to fill it with some sort of birds to go with the birds in my Babushka Quilt hanging on my sewing room wall.  After the clean out I knew it was time to finally put something in the frame instead of continuing to trip over it.  So this is what I put together (mostly with the inspiration from Claire!).  The birds are simply machine stitched onto the fabric with a decorative stitch just inside from the edge and then I free hand quited the white background.  I love that my sewing room is now coming together as I had imagined it.

These Matryoshka Dolls are from Kristen Doran. I was lucky enough to meet this very talented lady earlier this year in Melbourne.  We share a love for variegated DMC thread and these dolls. 

Under construction this week is this pile of Christmas Fabrics which just arrived in the mail.  They are destined to be turned into an order for Christmas Aprons. 

I finally got to eat the Chocolate Biscuits!

Well I did get those chocolate biscuits in the end!  I was going to eat them anyway!!  Many of the Aprons have already found new homes and the one for my sister should hopefully arrive on her doorstop today.  This pic is of the few left.  I will be busy making some more for the Upmarket next week.

I said many posts ago now that I was working on some Christmas goodies.  Well I have been working on some felt Christmas Bauble Garlands.  Here is the box in progress...

And here are the finished Bauble Garlands.  Several of these have already been ordered and will soon on their way to new homes. 

I have enjoyed sitting down and sewing these.  Well I must get back to the sewing room.  

I am a Woman on a mission !

See all this cut out fabric - well they are Aprons in waiting.  All cut, ironing and sewing to go.  Today I shall not blog hop, I shall not net surf, I shall not eat a chocolate biscuit until these are finished!!!!.  My sister was here in Perth recently and she has dibs on the top Apron with the black and white floral print on it.  So hopefully by the end of the day I should have these complete and then I can eat the chocolate biscuits calling my name from the pantry. 

This Make "Me" Boy Cushion was a custom order for a friends little boy's birthday.  Here it is sitting on his bed - He is soccer mad so with a few extra touches to my pattern this is the end result.  These patterns will be available at the Perth Upmarket and come in two versions - Make "Me" Boy and Make "Me" Girl.  They have different clothes and hairstyles that you mix and match to suit your child.  I have also had so much fun making them that I have decided that I will take custom orders for them if sewing the cushions yourself is not your thing.