The Nutcracker

Only 3 days to go and 1 until we head off to the coast and I have just finished my Christmas shopping, well creating, this morn I made two little nutcrackers for my younger sisters. I am hoping that this time next year I will have made Clara for both of them. These little nutcrackers came from the Wee Wonderfuls blog but I kind of re-did the pattern. Well Merry Christmas and have a Happy and SAFE New Year because this is my last entry for 2010!!

Not Long Now

Hello,

I can't believe that it is only 4 days until Christmas Day!!!!! In all the leading up excitement involving the advent calender and Christmas Parties, my sister and I have made time to make a Gingerbread house and my, it has turned out well, with a few dramas. Both our walls broke in half and we under cooked the roof so we had to make a frame for the inside of the house. I also was worried that the royal icing wasn't going to set but with the help of my sister telling me that is would all be fine our house looks fantastic :-)

A New Dress

To start off the Summer Holidays (YAY!!!!!) Mum put me in to do a sewing class at Gardems. The class went over 2 days from,10 - 2:30, and in that 8 hours (we had a lunch break for 1/2 hour) we were to make something using a pattern. I look through the choices they had given us and decided to make a dress with pockets. I chose a very original fabric, spots, and got straight into it. The first class was a little boring because some girls there had never sewn before so I had to wait for about 1/2 for them to catch up.,In the first 4 hours I had sewn on the pockets and sewn the 2 dress pieces together. The second 4 hours was slow with lots of unpicking and me getting fed up with the instructor which resulted into me not finishing the dress before the end. Though it sounds like I didn't enjoy it that much I did like it and met a few nice girls. I must congratulate the little boy for making a wonderful stripey shirt surrounded by girls. After my long, long explanation you are probably dying to see the dress, so here it is-

What a Lovely Headband

Good morning,

A few weeks ago mum bought a very pretty dress for me (I really like it) and yesterday I wanted to wear something in my hair that would go with the dress. I looked in my new sewing book and I decided to make a headband with roses on it. My dress is blue so I made the roses blue and the headband is white. It looks really nice with the dress. Mum said I should make one to go with my graduation dress. Here it is :) -

HP7 Troubles

Hello,

I went to see HP7 on the weekend and what a movie it was. I t was really scary in some parts (I sreamed 5 times) and when dobby dies it is so sad, I cryed but I loved it! Just before my friend came to pick me up I realized I had no bags that were easy to carry around and that were small, so I whipped one up in no time and the bag turned out really well. I was so proud! Here is a picture of a gorgeous bag!

1 Month To Go!!!!

I am so excited it is just under 1 month until my 13th Birthday!

For My birthday I really want the new ipod nano called nano touch or something and the new Meet Me at Mikes book called 'Sew La Tea Do'. I have had a good look through the book at a book shop and it looks fantastic, there are patterns for dresses, pants, skirts and even hats!. I am also getting my ears pieced on 30 November which is 27 days away.

Hello and and good afternoon,

This week I have been working on a doll inspired by Catherine from Made by Maisie. Catherine makes the most beautiful dolls so I tryed to design one similar. I had two attempts of the doll and I had to fiddle with the pattern for my second doll because my first wasn't quite right. I would like to introduce you to my dolls (Not named yet- can you help me?).

1st attempt

2nd attempt

Can't wait for your answers!

Just a Quick Entry

Last weekend my aunt came up to say with us for a few days, her family has just bought a new house so I decided to make three owls for her three daughters. The owls I made will hopefully hang on the girls doors outside their room. Here are is a photo of them:


I was thinking this afternoon that I might sell a few softies on the internet, maybe on madeit.com.au but I am not sure. Bye

Holiday Projects

Hello all,

As a fact all my Softies sold at the Carnival and hopefully went to nice caring homes. During the school holidays I have been making a lovely doll that Mimi Kirchner has come up with. She has a beautiful doll pattern that I used to create Nacy and Clancy. If you would like to try it out just go to-www.purlbee.com/hand-sewn-felt-dolls/and you will find an amazing doll pattern.

The following photos are og my goregous dolls-

This is my second atepmt of this doll and is much better than the other. This is Nacy.

Beacuse you can't really see in the above pictures this is the little flower

that is attached to the dress.

Here is my feeble first atempted of the lovely doll. This is Clancy.

After Nacy and Clancy I bought a book called 'Sew It Stuff It'. When mum and dad went to Sydeny for a day I had a go at 'Spot the Dog'. For me he turned out quite well. The only thing I wish I had done better was the eyes. Spot doesn't really look like he has two eyes on one side of his face!

After Spot I made a cute doll called Eloise. She has long light pink locks and a very pretty drawstring dress. She is one of my favorites so far.

To wrap up th Holiday's Here is a cute photo of all the softies my sister has. She has made two herself see if you can spot them.

Softie an her Friends

Good Afternoon,

In February this year I made a Softie for my sister's birthday. She loves it and it has had much love over the past few of months. On the Ekka holidays and weekend I made 10 friends for her (softies name is Rosie) I am selling them at our school Carnival in two weekends time. This is what Rosie looks like.

These are her new and short-term 10 Friends

A coulple of MY favorites. This is Molly.

Meet Poppy!

Say HELLO to Sage!

Greet Skye Nicely.

Hopefully they will all sell at the Carnival!

'Quapo' Challenge

Hello Wold,

It is hard to believe that I am talking to you, even though you don't answer it's still amazing

This is what I made on the weekend. I found a pic on the Internet of these fabulous what they call 'Quapos' and decided to make a pattern and create one.

First attempt!

Legs are a little skinny and face is much too big for is body. 'Mara' was made out of cushion so she was very hard to sew!

Second attempt!

I am so much more proud of this one it is so perfect!!!

Don't you just love my flet leaves!!!

Birds and PJ's

Good afternoon peps,

Right now I am eating a lovely Monte Carlo!!!
Today I would like to share some simple creations that I've made.











This simple pin cushion looks so lovely and is so easy to make. I used wadding to stuff it which is a silly mistake because some times I have to push the pin in a great amount of force!!




These are my sweet little coasters I made with birds machine sewedon. I hope you can tell that they are birds. They are one of my favs because my family uses them every night.


These are some pj's I made for a birthday. As you can see I made a softies that matched pj's. I just think it is so cute.

Hello

Hello World!

My name is Charlotte and I create and make softies and many other things.

To start this blog off I will show you a couple of my favorite photos of the softies and things.

I hope you enjoy.

These shoes are made using felt and an innersloe from a shoes. Hand sew it together, add some buttons and ribbon and VOLAR.

One of my fav photos and softies based on a farm. I hope you can see
that the softie on the left is a cow and the one on the right is a lamb.