Sewing Room

There has been a lot of fabric sorting going on here in my sewing room, inspired by the arrival last week of a new white cupboard...........

............the fabric stash has been organised, lots was given to the charity shop, some chosen by my daughter to make party bunting........and the rest is being lovingly ironed, folded and stacked...........

............as you can see i'm using the colour stacking system which seems to suit me best :)............

.........the left over layer cakes are rolled up and tied with pieces of pretty selvedge which i always save and hoard........not sure how to store unrolled jellyrolls before using them.........any ideas???

.............i found these sweet ribbons last week, pink rosebuds on blue, pink and white.......the big bright orange button was bought specially to go on a particular project which i'll show you in a future post........

...........i wonder what i'll use these for.......i love these adorable new lecien prints...........

...........in other crafty news here is my happy festive project in this month's crafts beautiful magazine, a gingerbread houses cushion with cross stitched houses, patchwork and lots of little decorative extras...........

 ..........and two tags, one shown below....the other is very christmassy so i will save it till nearer the time :)

...........my rustic robins design is featured in cross stitch collection magazine this month, and there is an interview with me in this issue too, with a lovely write up ...........to find out more visit the making spot......

...........i love the red and white look for christmas and am looking forward to making some more decorations this year beginning very soon.......as soon as i've finished filling up the fabric cupboard and piecing together the farmer's wife quilt that is...........

.............i've found lots of lovely pieces of fabric that i'd forgotten about so it has been a really good job to get done....and now it's all colour coded i can select it more quickly for new projects, though i might not want to take it off the shelves in case it messes up the tidy stacking system............ next i'll be sorting out the ribbon collection...who knew i had so many gorgeous spools and bundles of that stashed away??

........lots of people have kindly asked where they can get the love patchwork bookazine mentioned in my last post.........it's available in the uk from w h smiths stores..........another question i've often been asked recently is what do i use to stuff the pin cushions i make?......the answer to that is polyester toy filling :).........thanks to everyone who gets in touch either by comments or email........and thank you to everyone who pops in here to read my blog..............wishing you a wonderful weekend......back soon  xxxxxxxxxxxx