My Creative Space

In My Creative Space today there is singing!
Spontaneous Way OUT OF TUNE type singing!
The kind that begins with...Brown paper packages tied up with string...
Well the delivery was not quite tied with string, more cardboard and adhesive glue but these are a few of my NEW favourite things!
MY HEART IS FULL and overflowing! Oh how I HEART these beautiful books!

The first book I went to buy on amazon was Scandinavian Stitches by Kajsa Wikman her blog is syko.

She does fabulous, amazing things that I adore. I wanted to buy it around christmas time, but well, I figured I had bought too much already *g*
I think the very first thing I would love to make is "at the summer house" you can see it right there on the front cover of the book. But, I have this enormous frame in my spare room that has just been waiting and waiting for a project. I had hopes of stitching a tree with different fabric leaves, but life got so very complicated last year! Now I am wondering if I can stitch a smaller tree, and the summer house and some of the birds from 13 birds art quilt and maybe some other houses and make it a neighbourhood scene...some flowers and make it fill the enormous  frame. This might be a year long project! I can already hear my husbands reaction in my head "don't you have enough to do already, what with work, and art studies, and crochet and other sewing stuff"...hehehe
So when I went to purchase Scandinavian Stitches amazon had this deal for 3 books so I bought the other 2 as well.
The next book was Scandinavian Needlecraft by Clare Youngs

This book has some beautiful projects in it. Like the Reindeer that I would like to make for Christmas this year and the blue dandelion felted bag and the folk bird garland and felted wool slippers, floral winter scarf, felt baby boots, crested bird chair pad and the lovely, lovely book is full of templates and stitch guides..ahh heaven!
The third book, Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection by Aimee Ray

I vaguely remember I had seen the books around the bloggy traps, but hadn't really taken too much notice. Boy oh boy I should have!!! This books is choc-full of delicious little motifs and sparks off a storm of ideas in your head for what you could stitch them on. It is fantastic! It has a great simple stitch library and instructions for applique and embroidering with beads. Some of the projects I love already are the All weather Draft dodger and the happy day flag banner(I want to make this now), the  fabric basket, hoop framed embroidery art, soft sculpture trio. Oh my! The Motifs section has some gorgeous letters, flowers, garden, trees and leaves, weather, woodland fairytales & animals, space, embellishments and farm animals to name but a few! It even comes with a CD & 17 projects to make! My mind is racing with all the possibilities and..more to the point my fingers are twitching at the thought of stitch-stitch stitching all those lovelies!

Thank you Husband, writers of bookalicious lovelies, Amazon, Aussie Dollar AND delivery man for making this spontaneous outburst concert performance possible.

My Creative Space

My Creative Space is all about Raising money for the QLD flood by making softies.

These 5 Softies are being auctioning off, Have a look and bid please! All the money goes directly to the QLD flood appeal!!

Seth the Robot Softie.

Falafel the Cat Softie.

Dave the Giraffe Softie. 

Arcan the Owl Softie.

Bunky the Bird Softie.

My creative space

My creative space this week is all about the ruffles.

After some initial but short-lived joy at being finished the ruffles, I realised I had sewn them to the side piece not the back!!! I seriously hate making little mistakes..and this was a BIG one!
No unpicking this...it's too much!
So...back to the cutting out new ruffles and new side pieces, which required some extra fabric to be purchased.

Finally made it onto the rest of the dress...

and then to the other

One is stripey, stripey spot, spot spot.
And the other is spotty, spotty, stripe stripe stripe.

I've got spotties and stripes and holly hobbies, elastics, casings, straps and ties, unders and overs and ruffles galore (and uppers and downers! I feel a little Dr Zeuss.
It's been an epic battle, 9 days now! Today with a little luck and no more mistakes!! I hope to be finished the Feliz  Felizes  Felizi Feliz' Felizeses dresses and finally on to other christmas gifts!
Hopefully my sister, but most importantly the twins will love their dresses.

For more creative spaces pop on over to Kootoyoo for the last My creative space for the year! I know! what will we do with our thursdays now!

P.S. If you feel inclined, please take part in my giveaway!! It's drawn on Saturday.

My Creative Space

My creative space today began with making ruffles for feliz dresses and took an unexpected twist with a last minute call into work.

Buttermilk muffins in the making

Soooo, my creative space today is a school kitchen surrounded by young creative minds, hungry for learning, and of course muffins;)

My creative space

I wasn't even going to participate in My creative space today- I've been cursed with a very swollen sprained ankle from tripping over the vacuum cleaner (therefore, cleaning should never be attempted ever again.) and instead of doing other things, (like cleaning) I have been knitting while catching the occasional cool breeze through the window. Now that I have a shape that resembles a bunny I'm stitching him up.
He's all pastelly colours. This little fella is destined to join the other little Softies I have made to send down to Meet Me at Mike's to be donated for Softies for Mirabel 2010.

I'll have you know that Thursdays are my least creative, but most inspired day! Simply because as soon as Kirsty over at Kootoyoo posts My creative space each Thursday (and it so quickly fills up with links), I go off into blogland never to return!
Well OK, not never...just...some time later...after refreshing Kootoyoo over n' over, It's like a creative, inspiring drug! There's so many websites to look at and everyone is so very creative and inspiring and influential so go on, take a look.