Birthdays, heat and it's just all too much!

Bad old fabric market!

Bad bad bad BAD! But oooooooooh! Next time must take less cash with me... then again at 3 euros a meter can you really complain??

Creamy fabric is a rough cotton- good for printing. Still working on some ideas!
Flower patter would make a brilliant skirt... also quite heavy....

Stretchy stretchy! Great dress.... or maybe soemthing funky for my little one?

More Jersey... only little meters for my little one. T-shirts, PJs and shorts all planned.

For me! Dress or a top- I was thinking maybe a wrap top... or wrap dress!

The grey is thick and stretchy and will catch dust like hell but will make warm easy trousers for my little one. The funky material I am in the middle of making two shirts. I am actually thinkin about stealing some for me. Damn nice material. Hope there is enough,  I do only buy little amounts as one meter goes MILES when you are making t-shirts and clothes for little ones. Love it!

This is the point I am at. I used Ottobre magazine, the last two. I copied an envalope top section ment for a girls dress and then applied it to a t-shirt design. It works really well. The one thing I have learnt that help with envalope t-shirts...

• ALWAYS find where the original shoulder seam would be and mark it. It helps when you match the front and back to fit in the sleeves.

I saw this on another blog. Use washable felt pens for marking fabric. I am trying it out. I know this wont work on all fabrics but it makes it so much more acurate and faster than chalk. I feel if you sew well enough it shouldn't matter if the pen marks stain a little... right? Hmm, so testing it out.

Busy hot days and 'wild quilting'

My husband loved his jeans.... and then he got some holes not even I could fix. So naturally I ripped those suckers apart and made my little guy some very nice jeans!! I got the pattern from the last Ottobre. The pattern should have been with fine linen but it worket well with jeans.

 Now my husband is hiding his other trousers and wearily eyeing up my sewing corner!

I have been quilting like crazy with almost every spare moment I have and I am getting there slowly. Looks good huh? My little monkey goes in regularily to my corner and swooshes over my fabric and picks it up for a walk through the flat. I don't mind... I just laugh and tidy up.

I so wished I had got hold of more variants of Military fabric... but it still looks good. I wasn't too sure what to do with the back... so I just made it up- 'Wild quilting'!! Got scraps, put them together....

Ripped random sized lengths of fabric....

And somehow it just worked. Now I have to make lots of it. More 'wild quilting' as I don't believe I have enough of the green.....

Also on top of that I am playing with the idea of making my own t-shirt prints. I got a silk screen... I have textile paints... it's all too easy sounding. Need to research a little more. Some cardboard templates cut outs maybe....  Help, anyone?

Pelicans can ruin your ornamental gardens....

I love these Pelicans at the zoo here. They are allowed to roam free. They are quite friendly but I have never realy been brave enough to pat them. I feel sorry for the poor groundsman- the pelicans sit on the flowers, crap on the grass and leave feathers everywhere!!

Still love them!

Isn't the zoo lovely? I love my summer days.

Bees!!

I love bees. I love honey.

I love these bee boxes where you can look in. It looks really scary... all those stings! And surprisingly it is really warm when you put you hands on it.

A variation of a bee house that is actually being used! I found that amazing.

And lots of other bee houses... including one weird one with a face on it at the end. Not susprisingly, even the bees avoided that one.

The weather is just right for days by the lake. (Mosquitos haven't found me yet which is also a good thing!!)

Bird prints

I have mentioned that I have a thing for bird prints?

I took these at sunset. The colour of the sand is just gorgeous and the shaddows are really good too.

Colder. Darker. Later.

Crow. ( 'Seagull tastes like crow' Apparently... well, here is the crow print.)

And the Seagull.

Table adventures

Baltic coast...

The houses on the baltic coast were really pretty, almost too pretty. Everything is white spit and polished. Then again it is a holiday area. It must be awful in full summer and in winter when no-one is there.

Some really gorgeous old features- I love all the details... and might I add facing the sea.... good direction!!

The old sea bridge- looking towards it. (and a random German woman in there too....)

This little honey was a bit more in the village.

We took a trip to the wind mill...

Since we were so close to Poland we skipped over the boarder ate fish, drank beer.... had ice cream and then took a huge wonder about....

This would be the smoked fish stand that my little one ate his own weight at....

 How absolutely great is this place??? For sale, by the way.

(Fish)

To finish, some random snaps. Phew, what a day!