Wedding decorations.

In August twinny is getting married. Yay!
Being the crafty pair we are and having a very large marquee to make pretty I have cracked on with making some decorations.

I have begun with bunting. lovely bunting.
All red and white and many, many metres of it.Twinny sent me a link to Martha Stewart's DIY Wedding website, which has lots of ideas.

I have since made coffee filter pom poms.
These were much easier to do than I expected and look really nice when strung across the room.
DIY tutorials suggested ten coffee filters to a pom pom but I went with six which worked fine. I will do some more and dye them red.
Paper garlands were also on the DIY wedding website.
These looked good in the red and white paper I used but were very time consuming for not many meterage!Martha Stewart has been a suprising help. For now I am going to carry on with the bunting and will keep looking for other super DIY wedding ideas as there is still lots to do.

Pinny for Twinny

I have finally got round to making a pinny for twinny!

Woo.

Picked up a meter of red and white polka dot material and without a pattern made this:

The pinny has a little pocket and a frill edge with a generous red tie and a matching bag for storage. I like the retro feel of the pinny and also it matches twinnys cake stand and cake tins.

This pinny was pretty fun, quick and easy to sew. If I make more I think I shall have to make a pattern so I don't waste any fabric. Although I did manage to make two out of the 1 meter I purchased.

I've also finished off the bag I started over Christmas. I used the same pattern as I had before for the smaller bags but just used bigger needles.

I added knitted hearts, a red zip and a denim lining.

Once I get round to it I will list it for sale here.
http://www.folksy.com/shops/boozyfloozydesigns

Here is a beret I knitted on my first attempt with round knitting needles, I used a lovely ball of wool twinny got me - but ran out towards the end so cheated and threaded the last of the wool through the remaining stitches and pulled tight, resulting in a pretty neat round at the top.

Lovely stuff.

Last week was the start of dress making phase 2, in which I have begun a wrap around dress. Already done in one class what I did in 3 during the winter term which is good stuff. Hoping to make a petticoat and to find an inspiring pattern which will test what I have learnt so far.

This week I have started a bag for twinny and *finally* the ties for the Metson-Kane wedding.

I have also been very inspired to learn to crochet after seeing these amazing projects:

http://artiststakingthelead.org.uk/east-midlands/shauna-richardson-lionheart-installation and http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=298664.0