Little girls...

Another Embroitique machine embroidery design, and another favourite.

Love these wordblock designs.
A friend has just passed on a collection of quotes to be made into bookmarks.  I wonder if I could make some of them into this type of design...
Shared here:

Happy Hour Fridays	Can I get a Whoop whoop	Anything Goes
5Days5Ways	30 Handmade Days

Shefford Gala

This is the first year I have been to this event.  Hopefully it will not be the last.  It was a lovely event - and a large one, as village events go.  Lots of sunshine, and lots of lovely contacts made, including two new volunteers to help with the sewing.  I am finding it very exciting to see how complete strangers see the value of what I am doing, and want to be actively involved. 
Just to put the icing on the cake, the lovely Frances came along and helped me to set up.  That was so much appreciated.  Even more wonderfully, despite having a Sunday lunch date with her mum, Frances returned to help me pack the stall away.  Setting up and packing down are by far my least favourite parts of an event, but her help made it so much easier.  Thank you, Frances, and thank you Shefford!

A bunch of flower bags

This is possibly the only bag I have had specific requests for at a sale.  For a long time I have been out of stock, and in a way I hope I soon am again!  In the meantime, hopefully these will sell well.

I'll be adding this project to the following link parties:

Create and Share	Made by Me	We Made it Wednesday
A Creative Princess	Whatever goes Wednesday	A Little Bird told me

Wild baby alert!

Here are some bibs to suit those babies with more than a twinkle in their eyes!

Denim is such a good material for baby bibs.  I have backed these with fleece - I bought some fleece blankets from a discount store and they have been a great purchase.  The fastening is velcro, which I feel is so much safer (and easier!) than ties.

I'll be adding this post to the following link parties:

Sew Cute Tuesday	Too Cute Tuesday	From Dream to reality
Fluster buster	Nifty Thrifty Tuesday	Ladybug Blessings

Pocket backpacks

These bags are so very popular.  They have a special significance for me as well, knowing that the children of Casuarina House each have one, made for them for last year's Christmas presents.  I have become quite adept at running them up quickly, and they are often a project which goes with me to sales, where I have found it is easy to thread the cord through a batch while manning my stall.

The tutorial for these bags can be found here.

I'm sharing this project at the following link parties:

A Round Tuit	Sew Can Do	Hand made Monday
	Sew Chatty	Calling all Crafters
Make it yourself Monday

Warning...

There are occasions when, as customers look through my bags, I have a good idea which one they are looking at from their reaction alone.  This design is one such:

"I can only please one person each day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow's not looking good either."

Maybe not politically correct, but it echoes a feeling I suspect most of us have had at some point or other.

Shared at these parties:

Sew Darn Crafty	Sunday Funday	Submarine Sunday
Bouquet of talent	Sundae Scoop	Sew-licious
Just something I whipped up	Petite Hermine	The weekend creative

Always...

More lovely slogan purses.  Embroitique has the most wonderful embroidery designs, and that is where this one came from.

Lovely font, and great to be able to include so many colours.
Shared at these link parties:

Serenity Saturday	Saturday Sparks	Handmade Cafe
Saturday at Seven	Strut your stuff Saturday	Check me out Saturdays

Sporty bookmarks

...with a footballing theme!

Very appropriate for my fundraising really; football is very popular in Utange!
I'm adding this post to the following link parties:

Happy Hour Fridays	Can I get a Whoop whoop	Anything Goes
5Days5Ways	30 Handmade Days