Brides and Fairy Wings

Wedding days and fairy babies...

Removable wings mean these little flower girls can be used as fairies as well...

These were all made by gathering ribbons after neatening the cut ends and making a running stitch waistband and threading the elastic through it.


The wings are made by folding ribbon and gathering it.

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A big cocktail celebration and fun in the snow....

A Little Visit

 Great news!!


Farrah and Hettie have come to visit Nana's Sylvanian Workshop. 


So today on Easter Monday 9/4/12 at 2.25 p.m. Farrah is helping Nana to make the blog. she is telling Nana what to write.


Yesterday when they saw all Nana's Sylvanian things, Farrah and Hettie were very excited and amazed.


There is a fashion shop, with a pretty tree outside. Inside there are lots of clothes on little hangers and a mirror so the Sylvanians can try on any clothes they like.


Then they can pay  for them at a the till.


There is also  a shoe shop which is full of fantastic and brilliant footwear.


There are baby shoes, sports shoes, grown up shoes, and even some lovely at home shoes.

The Sylvanians have some Visitors

Look who dropped in to see the Sylvanians! Auntie Emily's monkeys with their new red sweaters!

Mmm maybe some Sylvanians would like sweaters like these.....

Fancy Dress - Sylvanian Bear Sister/Brother in a Cat Outfit

 You can buy super cute Sylvanians in fancy dress...

There is something very strange and very appealing about Sylvanian cats dressed up as a chick and a rabbit...

However, Farrah wants a cat fancy dress outfit so Nana has spent quite a bit of time working out how to do this....





And voilà! We have a - slightly scary*? - cat outfit worn by a bear...


* yes scary - my daughter (grand-daughters' mummy) says the cat looks like a serial killer lol

The cat face mask is stitched onto a hood which can be worn up or down

I could not work out how to make a kind of hooded romper suit all in one,so it has ended up as a hood, which can be worn fastened at the back as shown or at the front as a kind of scarf.

It is worn over a jacket which was cut all in one including the sleeves,

then there are little pull on elasticated waist trousers with an added tail.

I will probably try again to make an all in one now I have had a go! I have found some baby all in one patterns so may try to scale those down.
I used fabric glue for the felt applique and embroidery silk for the features.

TECHNIQUE I USED 

I used this fabulous pattern from http://www.246.ne.jp/~jr1vvc/sylvanian.html and adapted it for a cat suit, re-drawing the sleeves to make them wider and shorter.

The cat suit is for a sister/brother so it was very small to work with .

The all in one sleeves took several goes as they were very tight at first - so I might go back to separate sleeves next time,  or try a very wide all in one sleeve - I widened it several times on the pattern  but may try flaring them out more...

Sewing this outfit  was not helped as the fabric was quite bad for fraying (and I had not used fray check as I did not find this out until it was too late :(). Also it was cut on the bias so I thought there would be enough give in the fabric... 

I tried a tip I found on a doll dress making site that suggests using kitchen roll to cut out templates and fit them on to the figures before cutting out the material - this was great except the kitchen roll was fray proof and the fabric wasn't-  still I will know next time...:) 

The fraying was also a problem for the cuffs as I just could not stitch inside the hems so they are blanket stitched a bit scruffily... however I am living and learning!

Party Balloons by Petr Kratochvil   

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School Uniform...

Finished Hettie's school uniform now so here are the girls in uniform...


I copied the school logos using ordinary sewing thread; I have blurred the words as I am not sure what you can show on the web re children... 

Farrah and Hettie waiting for the school bus





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School Bus by Peter Griffin

School Days

Farrah Badger in her school uniform T-shirt and skirt...

School motif was stitched with ordinary sewing thread and lots of patience!:)


Playground by Peter Griffin
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