I love Holidays!

I love the Holidays.  With lots of friends and family to catch up and spend time with this big school break over summer is such a wonderful time especially to share with my girls. 

Well, while it may be holidays there has still been plenty going on in the Tied with a Ribbon sewing room.  I have put the finishing touches on some new Felt Kits which will be available in my Etsy Shop hopefully by next week.  This is a sneak peak at the making of one of them.

Because Christmas is now over it is safe to show you some of the presents that I was busy making but could not post photos about incase they were seen early by family and friends.



These are some Christmas Sacks I made for my nephews.

I made this swing top for my beautiful God Daughter.

This i-phone cover I made for a special friend to celebrate her birthday.  It was from Janelle Wind's book Pieces of Me which I had bought a few weeks ago.  It was very easy and I could not believe how quickly it came together.  

I have been able to tick lots of things off my to do list this week and lots of other new creations are in the works.  Now that Christmas is over I have been putting the finishing touches to my Easter range.  I have made lots of Easter Bunny Party Bags and Bunny and Easter Egg Decorations which have been listed in my Etsy shop. 

Sewing for my girls!

Late last week I had one of "those" days.  We all have them, nothing seemed to go right no matter how much I had planned and organised I just seem to have hit a wall.  So what should one do - well 12 months ago "these" kind of days would have resulted in a huge shopping spree with wonderful new treasures and some explaining to do to the hubby due to the over expenditure.  Well instead I decided just to do some sewing for me or rather for my girls.  Things have been so busy at Tied with a Ribbon that I decided to make some pencil cases for my girls for school next year. 

Inspired after catching up with some friends for dinner I took my Babushkas and Cupcakes and some scraps and made these pencil cases!  My girls were thrilled that they had some special new treats.

My Custom order for Hair clip Hangers with a Pinkaliscous theme are now all finished and ready to be delivered to their new home.

And these cuties I have listed in my Etsy Shop.

I have had more Custom orders for Christmas Sacks this week and this one will soon be ready for Santa to fill with only 5 weeks to wait for a special little girl.



Starting on Friday Night Tied with a Ribbon will be attending the Joondalup Upmarket.  We will be having a FREE kids craft activity table running with different craft activities organised for each of the five weeks.  Felt Kits and Patterns will also be available for sale so you can make some Christmas Decorations of your very own along with inspiring kids to learn some new crafty skills.  - Starting from 6pm in the Central Walk, Joondalup (19th November - 17th December) 

I'm "baking" Gingerbread

Today I'm "Baking" Gingerbread men !

All this making is making me hungry!





Some time away!

Yes, I am still here.  It has been busy in my household these past few weeks due to school holidays and some family trips away which has meant that Tied with a Ribbon also was on holidays!!!!

I spent some time in Melbourne with my sister and had a great time.  Much to her disgust the first stop on our trip was to a fabric shop!  I have not been to Gee-Jays in Melbourne before but fond some wonderful fabrics.  I picked out several fabrics and until pointed out by the lovely ladies there had not realised that I must have a thing for spots!

Some bright new colours that I have already cut into to make some treasures that have been in my head for a while waiting to be trialled and made.

So with some new fabrics and plenty of ideas I started about making this - can you guess what is on my mind?

There have been some other custom orders on the table this week with the start of a personalised cushion in these colours

So armed with some hand stitching to complete and Season 1 of Gossip Girl (don't judge!!!!) I have some work to do and pondering of a youth long since gone!!!



Poor little Sewing Machine!

My poor sewing machine has been getting a workout!  I know that she can't wait to be put to sleep at night these days. Since my launch it has been non-stop here at Tied with a Ribbon central.  Many of the orders are now on the way to their new owners and one such order was for this special custom made brooch.  

 This brooch will be headed to a Kindy Classroom.  There are always lots of parents and  helpers who give up their time to help out in schools.  So this brooch is in special recognition of the "Parent Helper" of the day.   I thought it was such a wonderful gesture of the mum who ordered it.

All those fabric and felt hearts have now been turned into Needlebooks which I will be taking with me to Perth Upmarket.  This will be my first market so keep Sunday the 27th June free if you are in Perth. 

I am working on getting an online shop up and running.  This is a work in progress and which I hope soon to have launched.  If you want to contact me in the meantime you can leave a comment or drop me an e-mail and I can reply.

Here is a sneak peak at one of my new designs which I am working on. Well next on the cutting table are Notebook Keepers.  I will post a picture once they are complete. 

A week of BIG progress and a Birthday Party!

When I decide to start my little business there were many things I wanted to achieve. Well today I made a rather big step forward as the first of my range of Patterns went to the Printer. I have been working on these since Christmas - Devising, making, sewing, re-sewing, writing pattern instructions, pattern testing, having the patterns tested by others and now finally they will soon be ready to package. My sneak peak from last week is my Boy cushion.

We celebrated my little (well not so little anymore!) girls 6th birthday last weekend and by the cake around many of the kids mouths it seemed a roaring success. If you remember all that Dougnut Fabric here is what they looked liked - Party Bags for all the kids - and even a few big kids (Yes you all know who you are!!!!).

I hope you have a wonderful Easter and that the Easter Bunny is very kind to you all.

Easter Stitching

With Easter just around the corner I have been busy stitching and creating Easter Treats of the non-fattening variety. With many little ones that we give to at Easter time, chocolate seems to be in abundance so I like to give gifts that last a little longer. Lots of felt bunnies have been waiting to be made.

I have been working on a few special orders in the theme of "Easter Hat Parades". I can remember as a kid all the time spent preparing and creating such hats with my brothers and sisters and it delights me that the tradition still stands.

It is also my younger daughters birthday next week so I have been sewing Party Bags. The fabric with the doughnuts on it was just calling to made into lolly bags for the kids to take home. It looks just delicious.