Tripp Trapp Cushion

My son and I adore the Tripp Trapp, the only part of this fantastic chair that disappoints is the cushion. We even forked out for the 'Premium' one because it had laminated fabric thinking it would be easier to keep clean, which it is compared to our other Stokke one which is linen, the major property of which seems to be an amazing ability to absorb any food consumed nearby.

So essentially to keep the chair clean you either need several cushions or to use it without one at all. Enter my new TT cushion, sporting some new and very cute $3.99/meter Ikea fabric, with foam the whole thing cost less than $9 and took an afternoon; good deal compared to $90 for a Stokke one. ;)

I plan on making more so will try to do a tute with another but really it is quite easy. Using Easytrace I copied the Stokke cushions, the key to the construction is that the front seam of the seat base & bottom seam of the seat back are over-locked closed after sewn together.

Teepee love

I want to make my beautiful boy a Teepee for the playroom, I have been very inspired by a few I've seen about.

I am being motivated by the way this one has been constructed with the guides for poles and the cute port-hole.

I adore, admire and covet the applique technique on the Mozzlehome ones.... for a mere £134.00 +pp.


So I've completed my favorite part of any project.... the shopping. ;)

I choose to use 6' Bamboo poles from Bunnings & 3m of 150cm wide Calico, and so far, with no sewing it seems to be pretty popular already!



Stay tuned for when it starts to take shape.

... so last year all I made was..

A beautiful little boy named Finn Jude:

.. So I am sorry I ditched the blogging and craft for a while... who wouldn't for this perfect little guy?

But 15 months on I am back into crafting and over the next few days I will update with some of my favorite projects of the year and try to be a more reliable blogger!

I think the nursery is finished!!

I think I have finished the nursery, here is the finished room!

Notice the valance, I didn't follow the Simplicity pattern I posted about last time, it was too small for Boori cots and I ended up making one by just measuring up the cot.

Using starch to make fabric murals on a wall

A while ago I posted about the tree I painted on the nursery wall inspired by this very talented ladies blog. I have been thinking that the tree is a little plain and I remembered this post from ohdeedoh and finally put 2 and 2 together and decided to use starch to add fabric foliage to the tree.

Materials

Fabric to attach to the wall
Scissors

1 can of spray starch or liquid starch

1 sponge, or I used a facewasher

Start by cutting the shapes you plan on attaching to the wall, I didn't bother edging them, once attached they don't seem to be prone to fraying.

Next make sure the wall is clean and dry, and the process for attaching them is really easy, first spray the starch on the wall, so it is damp.

Next place your fabric on the wall and smooth out, make sure it is all saturated. Remove any air bubbles it may have, though as it dry's I found a few returned.

Finally use the cloth or sponge to dab up any excess starch.

Once finished run your cloth or sponge under some water and clean up any starch marks. They dried in about 3 hours and they also just pull off.

Amy Butler's Cuddle Kitty

While trying to stay up to get my hubbie from a very late flight I made Amy Butler's cuddle kitty which is a free pattern from her new book, Little Stitches for Little Ones. I am pretty happy with it, although the pattern needs some proof-reading, the cutting instructions are all wrong, asking you to cut a second unnecessary set of paws and ears. I also assembled it in a different order to the pattern.

Otherwise it was quite good, the odd shape isn't entirely the pattern, I was tired and started overlocking and stupidly left the cutter down on the feet... oh well it is very cute none the less:

Big Bag Baby Blanket finished!

It took months, but I have finally completed Debbie Stoller's Big Bad Baby Blanket from the original Stich n Bitch.

I am really happy with it, I wanted to make this blanket since I bought the book when having a baby was so far in the future I never imagined making it for my own.

Ta da: