I'm toggled out!

So for once after cooking Sunday lunch I did what I planned to do! The Darlings were doing their own homework, DH was clearing up the kitchen, while clearing up a mess at work over the phone, AND I retreated to my workroom to complete the buttons and toggles.

I needed to make buttons made with cores. I used "Funky Foam" shapes and for the triangles I used foam board.

"Funky Foam" Shapes

Button One

Machine Stitchery to add interest to the fabric

Square and Rectangle Foam Shapes covered with the Machine Stitched Fabric

Square and Rectangle Buttons with embellishments of beads and ribbon

Button Two

Circular Foan Foams covered with Fabric Ink Pen Drawn Spirals

Circular Buttons with Fabric Embellishments

Button Three

Foam Board Cut into Triangles

Covered with Shop Bought Fabric

Wrapped with Threads and Embellished with Beads

Toggles

I coloured a piece of Vilene with silk paints, probably not the correct thing to use but they coloured it and that was all I needed as the toggle shape was more important to me and all the colour had to do was be in the colour scheme! I added fabric and thread to some of them.

So there you have it, what I did this afternoon - I think the Button Chapter is well and truely put to bed.

Absent without Leave

It's been a bit of a week...the last post although started Sunday evening has only just been posted as I either can't get on the computer due to the other occupants of this house being on it, or visiting parents needing me everytime I sit down at the computer, or not having time to sit at the computer as I am finally returning the house back to normal as P-in-L have returned home.

I did however get some things done on the course work front!


I need to add to the button collection as I have bought the "Covered" button kits but hadn't used them. So I took some fabric that I had printed on and embroidered into it following the shapes of the printed pattern

Fabric with the circles drawn on showing the area I need to embroider

And here are the finished buttons I completed on Monday evening at the Quilting Groups AGM!

We had a Sewing B while the official business was going on. I did take some hand quilting to do as well!

I had some tassel ideas as well...

I hadn't made an example of tassels with embroidered heads, so I did...

And while I was making the Bead Sampler I remembered I had bought some large beeds to make some tassels with bead heads, so I made them as well...

I still have some more buttons and toggles to make to complete the chapter, so that's what I'll now be doing this afternoon.

Dorset Buttons

This evening I attached the Dorset Buttons I have made over the last couple of weeks to this framework made from three frames which have been wrapped with black strips of fabric.

I used nylon thread to attach the buttons to the frame so that they look as though they are floating in the spaces. All I have to do now is find a place to hang it!

February Already!

As promised here are last night's buttons made using a plastic frame wrapped with threads

I have been busy on the idea I had last night, I have taken photos at different stages and hopefully will be in a position to show you the finished button and how it was made tomorrow.

DH and son are off to Swindon for an away match tomorrow and Daughter has asked to spend the day drawing, which will be a nice way to use the day. Beats wandering around the shops.

Coursework update

Sunday evening was spent sewing together felt circles, mainly with blanket stitch, onto co-ordinating fabric.

This evening I attended the first of many committee meetings for the Quilt Show to be held in June. As usual I have left with a job - well isn't having something to do all part of being a member of the committee in the first place? No point being there if you're not going to pull your weight! So I shall be co-ordinating the quilt enteries - no pressure there then!

Nothing done this evening on the creative front. Off to bed now and a couple of pages of "Northanger Abbey" which we are reading at the Book Club.

Today's Work

As promised here is today's coursework. Buttons created on Prym Creative Buttons, look at the one on the right-hand side to see what they look like in the packet. Filling in the gaps with a variety of threads can make different patterns...more to follow.

After spending a good part of the day sorting out what has been done and what has been started into chapter bags - yes each chapter has it's own bag and I can pick up the piece I want to do. Keeping each chapter together and it's portable to take to after school clubs etc. Obviously I will only be taking the hand stitchery pieces, have you tried block printing on the back seat of a car whilst parked in the Church car park! Then again my Daughter has a battery operated portable sewing machine so who knows what I could do?



Tonight I made up one of the buttons whilst waiting for my Daughter's Inter-house Talent Competition to begin. My Daughter and her friend have been praticing a song from High School Musical with puppets. The event was the creation of the A Level Drama students who auditioned, rehersed and organised the show. The whole evening was full of talented children - singers, dancers and actors, so we were very pleasantly surprised when the Puppets came first in the drama section.

Here is Brother Jar and Molly with their "handlers" and the Sixth Form mentor.

Daughter is on the right.

I am so proud of what they achieved, it was a brilliant evening