I'd love to sew but...

I'd really love to be sewing right now but, my sewing space has been overtaken by paint and uni stuff.

This used to be my sewing table...oh the humanity!

Softies For Mirabel 2012

Dear Softies that I made for Softies for Mirabel, your making entertained me for weeks on my break from uni, I hope you reached the safe hands of Pip and Meet Me At Mikes before continuing on to some wonderful little kids.

There were cats.

There were bears.

A legion of frogs.

And some dolls

Ha! I tweeted, I flickr'd and I Sent them off in the mail and I promptly forgot to blog them. I really need some completion-of-tasks-without-distraction lessons!

Softies for Mirabel 2012

This week I have been Stitching up some Softies for Mirabel. How are you all doing with yours?

If you haven't already, you can join up over here at Meet Me At Mikes

I decided to go a bit retro, using a book my Mum bought in the 70's or 80's. 

Book: Soft Toys to make for Children Edited by Alison Lowe Marshall Cavendish 1973-84 

From this book I'm making cats, bears, frogs, elephants and dolls.

Some Images from the book Soft Toys to make for Children

I got started sewing cats and bears during the week, I'm finishing them off now, frogs are being cut out this afternoon and the dolls over the weekend. With any luck they all should be done by the end of next week when I would like to start my Christmas sewing.

I have a couple of weeks more off before uni starts again. This time off has been such a wonderful thing I cannot even tell you how much it has helped me to relax and do what I wanted to each day!