Christmas in April

I xmas item a month 

Although it's April, this is the first time I've joined in, mainly because I only found out about it last month. Thanks Narelle over at Pins and Whiskers for coming up with this idea, I think it's great  let me tell you why.

This is a project a few year ago to give you some idea it's from Cross Stitcher magazine 2010.

I finished them this morning by sewing the little buttons on.

The hearts aren't perfect but they got better with each heart, but you can see I really need that goal to get the job done. 

The backs have a little story, a few months ago, I wasn't very well, had come home from hospital and I was shivering, I stood too close to the fire and scorched the back of my favourite dressing gown, it was so soft I loved it and the colour, then while thinking about how I was going to back my hearts the idea came to me to use it. I can't tell you how hard it was to take the scissors to it, at least now I still have part of something I loved.

Also linking to April book challenge over at Heart of Charnwood.

Now I need to decide what Christmas Item I am going to make for May.
Bye for now
Shirley x

Patterned Daisy

Snippet Day 6

I seem to be doing a lot of firsts lately, today I made my first fabric flower, a patterned daisy to be precise. plus I used my first self-cover button. It's from a book called Twenty to make Fabric Flowers by Late Haxell, there are a lot of other books in the series, I bet whatever you like to craft there will be a book about it,  I have 4, rrp is £4.99 but they are cheaper on Amazon. 

from 5 circles of fabric

to 5 quarters

Gathered into 5 petals and turned into a daisy. 

Peony the bear said she wanted to help show off the daisy and who am I to say no, I think she does the job pretty well, don't you? 

I'm linking to the Monthly Book Challenge and Giveaway over at Heart of Charnwood pop over and say hello to Ange.