What Have You All Made Recently?

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Title says it all really.
Tell me about the lovely things you have been making,any craft. Pictures/Ravelry links would be great.
I like to crochet but I've found myself in a bit of a rut and want to be inspired and find some motivation to make something, even if its a totally different craft.

Share away.

oooh I love the baby sling!!! Lushy nice!!!

onlywants: whats up with the bandana bibs?? pm me if you want..and ps: fabricland do mail order on their fabrics, website is traincrashy tho!!

stealth that dragon bag is awesome

only have you tried favourite fabrics on ebay? Perhaps a bit ditsy but good prices and v good service too.

well Ive just got back from the fabric shop (I spent a VAST amount on oil cloth,..)

hee hee, I just had my first attempt sewing oil cloth. The teflon foot seemed to work a treat. I was adviced to use a jeans needle, not sure why?! But that worked ok too.

Wondering if there are levels of 'quality' with oil cloth or not...hmmm

hmm, well Ive read lots of things that sugest a 16 needle, so you dont make HUGE holes in the oil cloth - my teflon foot arrived today
I need to make 4 wallets tonight!!

Oh the Mei tai was a combination of some of the tutorials on this site, checking out a rl babyhawk, and swearing at my sewing machine as it protested against going through several layers of canvas and fleece! Looks better from far away but am rather proud of it seeing as I can only just make my sewing machine go :)

oilcloth - and teflon foot - duly added to my wishlist - sounds like fun.

I am currently kidding myself that with DH away most of next week I might have some time in the evenings to sew. Having worked it out there is in fact 1 evening I might be able to, and I need to make a birthday cake for DH's return [sigh].

OK - someone inspire me with a new, interesting, and easy bag pattern that I can make for teacher presents (*4-ish - hence the 'easy' requirement)....please?

Ouch - fabric rehab prices look good until you realise they are for FQs.

I have a beautiful piece of this japanese fabric hoarded to make a bag for me (I bought the same fabric once before in a different colour and ended up using it to make a bag for my mother!)

Just back from the charity shop - £3 for a massive piece of oriental silk it's gorgeous!!! What shall I make? It's heavy and quite stiff. Turquoise. Lovely!

Massive floor cushion? Or would you cry when it got ruined?

how big is it Moomin?

A nice bag?

I can recommend this pattern for showing off nice fabric.

What charity shop moomin?!

It's about 2.5m long - too much for a bag really although am contemplating a funky laptop bag...I would cry stealth so can't be too down and dirrrrty...

bag pattern I linked to takes about a metre - so you could do that and a funky laptop cover to go in it??

ladies, what do I need to put snap fastenings on stuff?? Tell me what to buy please!!

snap fastenings? or magnetic ones? snap fastenings you need the same sort of plier-thingies that you put eyelets in with - magnetic ones (buy them from ebay) need no more than a stanley knife.

i put ,agnetic snaps in already but i want to use snaps (like on babygrows)

Prym is the best brand IME, and you will need some pliers like these

Stealth do you want a bag bag with strap(s) or would a zip up pouch/makeup bag do for the teachers?

Because I can recommend the straight sided prism pouch to you, very easy, and you can make it any size you want...

I've just made a Wildflower pincushion, that turned out rather monsterous.

Im making a prism bag thing... im rather dissapointed. I followed a tutorial (which I found really hard to follow) so am going to write my own now Ive figured it out!!

new post on blog in a bit

(im goin to go look at overmydead's blog now)

Oh no onlywants one! What tutorial did you follow?

The best ever way to make prism pouches is explained very clearly in this tutorial on craftster. That's how I make mine, in all different sizes.

oil cloth prism bag