Stop the press guys… A while back I pinned this super cute romper from Erin at Lemon Tree Creations, with the promise that if Hercules was a boy, I would be making it for his Christmas outfit. Turns out that Herc was Ronan, and so it was time to get stuck into my Christmassy fabrics. (and FYI, if Herc had been a girl, I would have been making this sunsuit from Made By Rae in Michael Miller’s Yule Critters in [...]

Last time I updated you guys on Project Nursery things had stalled a little as I realised that we had a slight problem – the citron in Michael Miller’s Citron Gray colour story was far more green than I’d anticipated, and so matching it up with anything bought locally or any of the fabrics currently in my stash was going to be near impossible. This meant that the fabric stack I ended up with (the one just to the right [...]

I first spotted this pattern over at Living With Punks, Susan made an awesome version in Michael Miller’s groovy guitar fabric and I fell in love. Of course, I wasn’t so in love that I bought it straight away, instead I fussed about for six months, staring at it on Etsy about once a fortnight and daring myself to give it a go. I know I’ve said it before, but I’m not a clothes seamstress. I can make a quilt [...]

My order from Hawthorne Threads just arrived, primarily made up of fabric for Hercules’ nursery. You know, the $150 one. And I don’t like the fabric. Okay, it’s not that I don’t like it, as such. It just wasn’t what I was expecting. Part of me is concerned that it’s so dark, we’re lucky that our bedroom at the moment has a HUGE window, so it can probably pull it off, but was a colour scheme involving gray and black [...]

Just got an email through from Fabric.com saying that they have an additional 20% off of clearance fabrics, with free shipping to the US. If you’re in Australia (or any other postage outside of The US) they can fit 6 yards into a flat rate envelope for $15. Just add the code “ADCL9″ into the coupon box at the counter. The sale only runs until midnight US eastern time on 24th of November (If my maths is correct, that’s 4pm [...]