Melanie

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

A Very Cherry New Year

I found a small piece of cherry fabric in the bargain box at my favourite fabric store. Not big enough to make another Pinny of Power but I did manage to make a little cherry sweetie bag out of it. And inside I've put Cherries in Chocolate, Cherry Drops and Cherry Fizz…

Rest

I finished the banner I have been working on since the spring before my self-imposed deadline of the end of the year. Here is a picture of the work in progress during a critique at Committed to Cloth. The lettering is always one of the most time consuming parts of making…

October Cake of the Month

I'm a bit behind with Cake of the Month and I'm having a catch-up. I invested in three very good quality 20cm loose bottom cake pans from Lakeland so that I can make the layer cakes from the Hummingbird Bakery books.The question for October Cake of the Month was : -I…

Pinny of Power #2

Do you remember I made a pink polka dot cherry frilly pinny for a friend who has a cherry business? Well I made another one for his colleague. Here it is modelled by my lovely husband. As you can see I have sewed blue polka dot frills this time to make it…

Committed to Cloth – Last Session of 2011!

I had my last session at Committed to Cloth for 2011. Next year I will be doing independant study in stitch and as we do not go back until February there is quite a long break. I spent most of the last session scraping thickened dyes on to some new fabric…

September Cake of the Month

September Cake of the Month was a Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Cake. It smells absolutely delicious when it's cooking and the recipe comes from Nigella.comSo, here's the question: -To win the September Cake of the Month answer this question - If the following heads of state competed in an arm-wrestling tournament…

Salvation Army Auction Quilt

It was the black tie fundraiser for the day centre yesterday. It was an Auction of Promises at the Town Hall and although I haven't heard the final figures I do believe the target of raising over £3000 was met. Excellent!! The Salvation Army Stitchers (the S.A.S!) donated a beautiful…

Bye Baby Bunting

Finished another baby quilt just in time for the arrival of the grandson of one of the stitchers in my day centre sewing group. I've covered his name with a little mouse! One of my quilt group friends made the orange dog block.His Grandma made some of the blocks and…

Cake Update

Let's have an update on my recent cakes. I had a break from Cake of the Month in August as I really needed it! Yesterday I finally made the winning cake for July Cake of the Month. The question was: -I am going to make an intergalactic, time-travelling Dr Who…

Bagz

Seem to have been making a lot of bags lately. I've been holding on to this adorable piece of vintage fabric for a while now and I recently used to make a little cocktail bag for my brother-in-law's girlfriend. I had enough material and trim to make two so I…

Melanie Makes Meringues