Hats off!

I have a rare moment of peace this afternoon- obviously in typing this I've now cursed it- Wilbsy is at pre school, Pambers is playing in her bedroom and hubby is out. I'm sure I should be doing something important, washing, washing up, maybe even plod down to the allotment for an hour to try and find the few plants that are actually growing in amongst the weeds, which are now so high that if I took the girls there, I'd lose them. Maybe not such a bad idea...

It feels like my evenings have been taken over by repair work. This is a good thing. Its what makes the money after all, but leaves little time for crafting and my sewing machine is getting lonely.

Pause for a moment to open my delivery of goodies from u-handbag, thank you Mr Postman..

Talking of u-handbag, my first make comes from Lisa Lam's new book, the follow up to The Bag Making Bible. A few people have given the new book A Bag for all Reasons a bit of a scathing review on Amazon, and fair enough, the techniques section is very similar in both books. Then again, not everyone will have both books, so I really don't see the problem there, not when its another collection of lush bags to make. The first one I went for was the trifold wallet.

Nice straight forward make and easily done in an evening. I always have a bit of a problem making things for guys, but this is ideal and I'm starting to find some really cool fabrics out there.

Plenty of room for cards and a change pouch in the middle, a pocket section for notes and a separate one for receipts, and every child's dad is a super hero, right? (Shameless plug for fathers day!)

As you probably know, I love making purses with purse frames and have recently been sticking to sew in ones, but I got an absolute bargain on eBay, an 8" silver rectangular frame. Theses are the ones that only glue along the top and I have always used a pattern from the Martha Stewart site. But I found this one on seriouscraft.com and its great.

This was completed in just over an hour and is a nice light structured purse with plenty of room inside and tabs to attach a strap or chain to.

Finally, as the title alludes to, head wear. A redundant pair of jeans met a lazy flick through an old copy of Making magazine. I found a project I had been meaning to do, but just never got round to. I don't know if everyone else is the same, a shelf full of magazines with the corners folded over at things I fancy making, then forget about. Not sure if hats are totally my thing..

but it was a bit of fun, never the less! Right. Peace broken, daughter returns, I'm off. x