Chevron

I have a new fabric love...

It's called chevron.

I even bought a dress in chevron fabric!

Other pretty things featuring chevron:

Lovely Things

I finally got my Erin Condren teacher's planner the other day. I love the way it was packaged, with this cute little sticker on top:

This is a sample of what some of the pages look like:

It even came with a little freebie- cute notecards!



In other news, I've finally got all of my fabric and sewing stuff organised!

I love polka dot fabric!



Other cute fabrics I found when cleaning out my study/music/craft room:

Stationery and cute fabrics make me so happy!

How to Applique

So, I'm on holidays. Holidays mean I need a project.

My new project: sewing. To be more specific, applique.
I went to a craft group with one of my dance teachers last week and was captivated by one lady who sat at the sewing table appliquing a rocket ship design on to a t-shirt for her little boy.

Since I don't have a sewing machine yet, I decided to try appliquing by hand. My other dance teacher just had a baby girl two weeks ago, so I thought I'd try appliquing the baby's name onto a onesie. That worked out so well that I thought I'd make one for each of her other daughter's as well!

It was actually pretty easy, just time consuming.

I went to the fabric store and bought matching fabric in different colours for each of the three girls.

Then I printed out their names on paper in block letters to trace.

With the printed names underneath the fabric, I traced the outline of the name.

Then I cut the letters out individually.

Here was the tricky part: using an iron and fusible webbing to stick the letters to the t-shirts. It took a few tries and a few different methods before I figured it out.

Once I ironed the letters with the fusible webbing, it stuck pretty well.

But I thought it would look better if it was stitched on, so I stitched the letters by hand.