Rug-a-Long.

Jodie Carleton of Ric-Rac is having a Rug-a-Long and I have come along to play. I think it is a great way to use up my stash. I am going to have bands of set colours and working in groups of 3 for each colourway. This is the first time I have done something like this and this is how I have started it. Curtain fabric stash left over from Halloween costume and school play. First I have picked out my 3 colours.
I have torn them into strips and have them ready to go in a box. I have used a shiny fabric, a tapestry fabric and a stretch velvet fabric. All the pieces are in manageable lengths and will be joined in like with like as I need too. There is no sewing involved just plaiting and weaving in the plait as I go.
This is how I am joining in each strip. First i make a slit in both the end and the start of each strip.
I them add the new strip by putting the slit end of the new strip through the slit end of the old strip.
Through the slit in the new strip I put the other end of the new strip through this and pull tight.
They are now joined.
As go around in a plait I am weaving the end nearest the mat through the outer edge of a plait made before. This eliminates the need for any sewing.
As you can see i have put the yellow in the printed layer of the plait already done.


Plait a few more and curving at you go attach to the layer already plaited as before. I will continue with these 3 colours then adding another 3 different colours then back to these 3 colours creating different bands.

Meggie and Mat.

Meggie playing with the curling ribbon from her Christmas Present from my daughter. She loves it!
All the while she is trilling. I took many pictures of her playing with it and this is the least blurry of the group.
Meggie is sitting on the mat while I am sewing the black binding on it, Not easy!
The classroom door mat is finished.

Purple Fair Chair.

I remembered to take a picture this time before it goes to it's new home in the school.

Tilli and Meg and school stuff.

Tilli and Meg in the back garden stalking each other around the cat nip. (Tilli loves this plant).

Tilli after having rolled herself in the cat nip.

New Project for next week, These cushions for the floor were made 3 years ago, Time does go quick! This time they will all be different and will be the representing the colour wheel. plus one white, one grey and one brown.

These two chairs also covered here 3 years ago are having a make over. They will be plain black.

This is a small piece of carpet that will be the door mat for the classroom. I will be hand sewing this wide binding i have made out of black fabric. It will protect the carpet edges. I have made Loads of this binding to take with me to the classroom to edge the main carpet and it will make it last longer too.

Pink Chair.

I took a walk up to our local Savers and came home with these, The start of the Pink Fairy Chairs, one for the school and one for my niece, a special request. I don't yet have the chairs but this is a good start.

Fairy Chair.

Today I am working on the purple chair. The pink chair has already been snapped up and I forgot to take pictures, I won't be making the same mistake with this one though! The purple bead string came in a Christmas parcel from my daughter and I think it gives it that lacy glamorous bling that it was missing. The purple beads are one long string that is tied on in places with nylon carpet thread to give it controlled loops. I want it to be stable and still have movement. On the back of the chair is a 3 stand button necklace, It has been woven into the back.
The chair seat is wooden. I removed it and then covered it in purple plush.
Underside of chair. The plush bed cover fabric from Savers has an elastic rim casing that grips it on the bottom of the seat.
The top of the seat has now a cushioned dome, cute and soft.
The flowers and leaf shapes I have cut out and will sew around the edge of the seat. The flowers are made out of fleecy fabric that has iron on interfacing on the back to stabilize it. The first little purple flowers are going to be on the vine running all around the chair, the middle flower made up of 4 separate parts will be on the seat and have a button in the middle. The last one is a rose, the rose will have two leaves attached on each side of the flower. The leaves are made of two different green fabrics, One is a dark velvet and the other is a lighter green cotton. They will be on both the roses and the vine.

The leaf shapes ready to sew.

Pinned on for show of final placement.
The vine is made out of recycled electrical wire and green fabric tubing. The reason for this is that I do not want the vine to be tight against the chair but i do want to control where it lies.

This picture shows how I will attach the flowers to the vine. Each flower will have purple beaded centres.

I Won!

I an a Winner! Lavender Quilts was having a Giveaway and I blogged about it and won!

Look at the wonderful goodies I have here, (I have eaten the chocolate and it was Delicious!) Thanks Kris, I am ecstatic!