lets ric-rac it up..

After being given some of my mums old ric-rac I started to get inspired, this zig zagy stuff is very cool! I found this material which just reminded me so much of my boyfriends auntie and cousin, I made these for them, spatulas for mum, tea pots for daughter. Luckily both their birthdays are in March! ps. I am very excited cause my very own sewing machine should turn up in the post next week!woo hoo! I'll show you a pic when it gets here, an Elna of my own!....I know, they need to be ironed...oh well!

Here comes the fancy stuff

My friend's Mum jokingly asked me to make her a white frilly apron with a satin ribbon, lace and d'Entrecasteaux embroidered across the front, and so I did. I took her joke as a challenge I suppose and taught myself to embroider, well at least I taught myself to do more than backstitch... after lots of hand sewing, for the words and when the machine wasn't gentle enough for the frills, it was finished, whoopie!

Hello

A first taste of my newest obsession, and the reason I have begun this blog. These are the first two aprons I made, one for me and one for my buddy Jetika. They are lovely and trusty, now however, since I have moved on in apron land I look at them and wonder where the Ric-rac is...