I decided to make an egg cosy for a little girl’s birthday present this week. Okay so it’s not the latest expensive girly toy but it’s hand-made, personalised and I had fun making it while the boys played with their friends… It’s good practice for next week too, when I’m planning on machine embroidering my pictures onto the pile of tea-towels I have. Not sure they’ll be so easy but just as much fun.
Just a short post today, only one computer in the house and a school project to work on…
Okay, this might have to be the last drawing for a week or so because I really need to get back to screenprinting and then make some lampshades now that all the kit has arrived. There seems to be a bit of a kitchen/retro theme going on here don’t you think?! The only problem is I don’t have a retro looking salt mill but I found this one on etsy, shame it’s sold already.
This fabric is from Heather Moore’s Cut Out and Keep collection and is called ‘Avenues in Straw’. I love the yellow and the simplicity of the design is so clever.
I’m posting this as my first update from my new gilhoolie Facebook page so I hope someone reads it, I need some ‘Likes’!!
I know not many people use egg cosies these days but my six year old wanted me to make him one and how could I refuse? It gave me a chance to have more of a practice at machine embroidery and was pretty simple to make, thanks to my lovely Poppy Treffry book. I look forward to seeing him use it when he has a boiled egg for breakfast this weekend! 🙂 It’s not as big as it looks in the photo by the way and just fits an egg nicely.
Oh yes, I asked his friend if he would like me to make him one and he said “Yes please, can I have a lego brick on mine?!” Now there’s a challenge!
