Isn't Yoda the cutest!

I first saw the Yoda amigurumi on Geek Central Station and I sent the link to one of the biggest Star Wars geek I knew and he immediately said he wanted one and asked me to make him one. So I did when the pattern came out at the etsy store I bought one! You should see Darth Vader, he's just adorable! So when I brought Yoda to work, the rest of the boys were horribly jealous.

Now I have 2 more Yodas to make...

On other news, I now have my etsy store up! Except.. I need to make more stock... It's all coming your way very soon!!

Tags: Amigurumi, Crochet, star wars, yoda

I made the Frenchy Bag! Eeet ees sooo preeeeety!

I finally bought the Amy Butler Frenchy Bag pattern on ebay after weeks of consideration and I am so pleased I did because I am so so happy because I now have a bag that fits all my stuff and more should such capacity was required. *Heehee!* Now that I've made this, I'm really eyeing the Sophia Carry-All Bag.

I sat myself down for 4-5 hours and was determined to complete the bag and I love it! I have a pretty red bag! I love the colour red! I have since I was 3 and always owned red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I am also a sucker for tiny red flowers against a white background also found a really nice red cotton drill for the main body which gives a really nice sheen to it.

After showing it off on the first day, I've received 2 requests for it! It's all quite exciting. Friends and family have had been encouraging me to sell my stuff online and I am begining to consider it... you might be able to find me on etsy.com soon!

Tags: Amy Butler Frenchy Bag, Shoulder Bag, Tote

I just found out that our vintage Singer sewing machine that I thought was my grandmother's isn't really ours. As it turns out, years ago when my Mother sent it to be motorised the guy who did it swapped it with a cheaper and similar-looking model. And Mum never knew about it.

We only just found out about the scam 2 days ago because of the new buttonholer attachment we bought (Woo!). We checked the serial number against our original documents - it's different. My grandmother bought her machine for $460 on 13 April 1958 - in 10 days it would have been 50 years old! $460 was a lot of money then.

I feel really cheated of what I thought was a connection to a grandmother I never knew. This sewing machine isn't so special anymore.

Tags: singer sewing machine

I've sewn a blouse. A proper one this time. A white cotton waffled blouse with shiny red hexagon buttons! Featuring the amazing as Pin describes "Imelda Marcos sleeves"!

Quite a few years ago when I was a student living in Melbourne, I procrastinated. I'm not a very good student. One of the things I decided to do instead of my assignment was to sew a blouse completely by hand (I did not have a sewing machine). It was a black tunic. Needless to say it really didn't turn out well... all I had was pattern, cloth, scissors, needle and thread. I did not serger my pieces and oh, did it fray. I had no idea what interfacing was so of course it really didn't turn out well. I hardly ironed the fabric. I think I wore it once to humour myself and that was it.

Now 10 years later I decided to sew myself a blouse. Some months ago I came across this pattern at Simplicity by Built by Wendy and I was inspired to make it for myself. It looked simple enough. So I thought about it. Then a month later I found this book Sew U by the very same Wendy Mullin and it taught me how to sew a blouse. So I went and bought the pattern online and slowly planned my project.

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Tags: simplicity 4112, Wendy Mullin