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I finished putting together this storysack for the school Storysack Library yesterday. It’s for ‘So Much’ by Trish Cooke, with really lovely illustrations by Helen Oxenbury.

I spent my summer holiday ’embroidering’ this little chap’s hair, using knitting yarn and sewing thread. Finally got round to finishing the romper suit and cloth sack this week.

I will really miss him sitting on my desk but he will be loved so much by the children and teachers!

I finally got round to photographing these cushions yesterday, and putting them on Folksy today. They are made from graded t-shirt logos from Mini Boden: I did the original designs for them. The design director gave me the samples with some fabrics, to make some ‘stuff’ to sell to raise funds for the school Storysacks Library.

I finally finished the Peace At Last storysack on Thursday and it was out on loan straight away on Friday! The bear is very cuddly indeed, I’m particularly pleased with the knitted dressing gown. The printing on the bird whistle bag was an interesting experiment (see my last post).

I finally got round to giving this a go. Basically it’s a sheet of cotton fabric (poplin weight) with a paper backing. You just print out your design or photo etc – it dries really quickly – rinse it (actually no ink came off anyway)- wait for it to dry – peel off the paper backing – iron. I used it for a little bag for wooden bird whistles (Storysacks) – the box had broken so I scanned the information, tidied it up in Photoshop and printed it out on the fabric, cut them out and sewed the pieces onto the bag fabric. I’m really pleased with the quality of the result, I’ll definitely use it  in future. I need to do a few washing tests next – it says hand wash or dry clean.

£10.25 for pack of 6 sheets from http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/.Cotton-Washable_002.htm made by Blumental Craft

Finished a chicken applique which completes a new Storysack for school, The Little Red Hen; the colours  worked out well.