My First Ever Dress!!

My sister has asked me to make her a few dresses which I am really excited about, she is a very beautiful women and it will be a total pleasure to make clothes for her.

In order to get my head around what I would be doing for her, I made myself a version of what I think she is after. I finished it this morning and I proudly wore it around town all afternoon. I dropped in to see my sister who works for a big high street clothes shop in Nottingham town centre and she LOVED it, one of the other staff said it looked like one of their dresses so I was chuffed to bits.

I'm a bit nervous about this one as it is my first dress and I made it without a pattern....



Yay!!!!

Ah ha! Thanks to the wonderful Mr T here is another shot of the dress:







It's made from crepe fabric brought from Victoria centre market and has a Sabrina neckline, shirred waist and full skirt. It's lovely to wear and my sister is very excited to get her version of the dress now, we are going fabric shopping later on in the week :D

Love Lola x

Bed Sheet Curtains

I needed some curtains for the kitchen patio and I couldn't afford any fabric, so I used this old bedsheet that had been stuffed in a drawer for ages deemed to boring ( I like BRIGHT PATTERNS to wake me up in the morning)



I have to admit I have been really lazy and not ironed her hoping that the creases would drop out...but alas they haven't and now she looks like me after a late night, crumpled and tired! So I will do the decent thing and give her a good pressing.


You can see my poorly acer tree in the background :(



The Long shot.


Not bad really, cost me nothing and fits in well with the room, just need to sort out those creases before my mum comes for a visit!! I will be in trouble :D

Love Lola x

My first ever skirt (I think anyway :s)

Drum roll please...........

TA DA!!!

My First Skirt :D




This was made from some left over polka dot fabric from another project and the bottom panel is off a bed sheet (which later got turned into my new patio curtains which I will blog about in a mo jo)

I think she is a very beautiful skirt and I have finally started to accept that it's no longer the 1990s, I'm not a member of All Saints and wearing my clothes on my hips is just not a good look for me, so here is a picture that will make my mum proud....look mum it's on my waist!! wowowowo!!



Cute as candy!

Love Lola x

Clippity Clop

Clippity Clop was made last summer after a failed attempt at camping with me, Mr T and The Greenwood-Lamberts. We did manage to go for one night but it rained all night and we were floating by the morning.

Not wanting to ruin the whole weekend we used the refunded camping money to buy crafting materials and spent the rest of the weekend hanging out and making stuff, Clippity Clop is the result.



Here is his sexy back, he is actually a deep Cadbury's purple but I just cannot get my camera to stop looking blue, grrr oh well you will just have to trust me when I say he is totally adorable :D



Clippity Clop, Clippity Clop, Clippity Clop!!

Love Lola x

Table Covering

This was a nice simple project and he only took me an hour to do, the fabric was brought from ebay for pennies and was originally brought to extend a pair of orange curtains that were a little short, I was going to make a contrasting panel...but then we moved house and I no longer needed the curtains so the fabric got turned into this bad boy:



He is also very proud to say he can be worn as a superhero cape! WOOOOSHHHHH!!!!

Love Lola x

Birdie Cushion Cover

Well this is my first ever post! I thought I would start with an old project which I completed in maybe 2009 possibly early 2010. Anyhow she is a lovely cushion cover I made from fabric brought from Ikea in Nottingham...unfortunately it's been so long that I can't remember the name of the fabric or the price (sorry). She was hand stitched and she is very much loved...hence her being a bit grubby...just like me...;)

I think that will do for my first post, Hopefully I will become a bit more verbose and interesting as I go along!

Love Lola x