Make and Do

It's been a busy week here, and i've been making something i'd love to show you.....but it's for a magazine project for next year so i can't yet........but i've been doing other things too that i've taken a few pictures of, like enjoying the last flowers and the bright red berries from the garden.........

 .............there is a gorgeous mix of late summer and early autumn flowers which i'm making the most of......

........the very last sweet peas, and the last of these cake decorations and sugar flowers too....we have had a lot of these over the summer and my stocks are low so time to buy some more.......i love the green icing........ i think halloween cakes will be next though.........

.............i can also show you a peek of my current crochet blanket too.........the dotty pink and blue crochet hook came from my  lovely blog friend robin here.........i will be ordering some more pretty crochet hooks for christmas presents soon........

 ...........the hidden gardens blanket is almost finished, i'm now onto the shell border so will hopefully have it all done soon...............

.............the sewing room is still being organised, at the moment i'm just sorting through the ribbons and trims.........thank you so much for all the great ideas you gave me for fabric storage.....especially what to do with unrolled jellyrolls :)...........such wonderful tips you gave, dear readers, and i will be implementing them all very soon............(and taking some pics too).........

 ...........the fabric ironing, folding and stacking continued into this week.........it took such a long time......

                                                   ............now the cupboard is filling up...........

                                               ..........i finished stacking the yellow fabrics.............

                                                           ...........and the green................

..........and here is what i did with the big bright orange button i mentioned last time.....it was to sew onto my crochet project bag.....i knew it was just the right button as soon as i saw it.......it reminds me a bit of a licorice allsort too.......and how nice to discover that the book someone lent me matches my project bag so well :)............
......a couple more things to say thank you for before i go today.........one is to say thanks for all your kind words about my two christmas projects in the last post and to those who asked about the red and white fabrics in the gingerbread houses, they are scandinavian fabrics from fabric rehab.........thank you too to those who have written to me to say that they have used my patterns either from my books or magazine projects and shown them on their blogs and credited them back to me.....Thank You so much for this, it means a lot :)............
...........i hope you are all enjoying these early october days, with lots of autumn sunshine, homely times and cosy crafting as the days shorten and the evenings draw in........thanks for visiting me here..........back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx