My Creative Space... a little early

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The mission should I choose to accept it.... is to make a Lego Ninjago Vest.

It involves quite a bit of artistic license, some felt, giant ric-rac, and copious amounts of coffee and red velvet cupcakes.

The small child seemed pleased when he tried on the work-in-progress version, and has now requested that I make the headgear.

To be continued....

The home of my creative space

Trick or Treat

It was a big night in the 'burbs lastnight as Ghosts and Devils, and Witches and Ghouls (and Buzz Lightyear and Shrek) trawled the streets collecting lollies from unsuspecting neighbours....

Cool Ghouls wear skinny jeans....

I tagged along to trick or treat the neighbours houses...

.... and then treated myself to some lollies as they traipsed further afield in the neighbourhood

...and when boredom set in.

The home stretch

Princess Skirt dress-up ensemble to go with Princess Crown

Even though it's quite a bit of work, making handmade christmas pressies is actually lots of fun. It's completely different than sewing for orders, or for markets, or for special requests.

Superhero Crown and matching Superhero Cape

My favourite part is always choosing the fabric from the stash. The fabric stash at my house is approximately twice the size of my walk-in-wardrobe.... I will never need to buy fabric again for the rest of my life (notice that I used the word need, which is completely different than want or will)...... the only thing that I've had to buy for the christmas presents was a lot more velcro.

More unidentified animal ears and matching tail

I sometimes spend just as much time choosing the fabric combinations, as I do actually making the end product.

The list has nearly been cleared. I just need to make another Superhero Crown and Cape for Moo Moo, and maybe some appliqued tees for all the boys, and then a trip to Bunnings for a gift voucher and I'm all done!

I'm promising myself to start earlier next year (even though I'm sure I said that last year)....oh well.

It's a finale

I'm still working on dress ups....

It's lots of fun being able to just make anything. I picked up this spangly offcut in the remnant bin at Spotlight last week for $2. I've teamed it with some net curtain offcut, some ribbon from the stash, and some binding to finish the raw edge (have I mentioned how much I hate hemming). It reminds me of The Jetsons.

Tonight is the grand finale of the Northcote Kris Kringle Market, so if you've been meaning to come along over the past few weeks, it's the last chance. I'll be there from 5.30 PM - 10.00 PM, and I'm hoping that we can break the cycle of thunder and rain this week!

For the King and Queen

I managed to make a lot of progress on the list yesterday.


The King and Queen now have matching crowns for their dress up box.....

.... and matching tutus

I ended up making the tutus wrap around with a velcro closure as the recipients are very young and would struggle get them on if they were elastic waisted. I still need to shorten the pink one a little bit.
I had no idea just how how scratchy the tulle would be as I've never used it before.

The forecast is for 39 degrees today, so I'm going to sit in my little sweat shop with all of the blinds closed and sew sew sew!