All Sewn Up

Ello Dearies! 

I've had a bad day and I'm fed up, so when I got home I looked through my latest craft book-buy All Sewn Up by Chloe Owens to lift my spirits, and it worked like colourful fabric therapy! It is full of cute and quirky designs and projects like seratonin on a page, and leaves me feeling heaps better and inspired to the brim.

I bought it from the bookshop where I work (WHSmiths, the book department in the basement where I refuse to surface from until home-time), having abused my discount plus hoarded store coupons, so I got it for a great price ;) 

I couldn't help it...it's so YUM!

There are butterflies and birds, flowers with BUTTONS! and colourful fabrics for hair...

...and a cat that looks like a cross between our own cat Pickle and a puss from one of Hayao Miyazaki's animations! He looks like he might be chuckling and saying in a Japanese accent 'ho ho, too many butterfwies!' (no, there's no typo.) 

(you can tell I'm in a good mood now...)

It's just simply gorgeous :) I'm surprised I hadn't shared it with you until now. I recommend you buy this when you're feeling blue! Especially with rain in July, (as I type this a sunbeam just came through the window...see? It does work!) if you appreciate vintage fabric, quirky design, kitsch and colour - YOU. WILL. LOVE. THIS.

I also bought, mid-promo abusive behaviour, this How to Sew boxset of books. They're ever-so-handy reference books, and they're so titch and so sweet and have polka dots, and look charming on my bookcase next to my Rob Ryan mug that has perched upon its doilie. 

So that's my sunshine offering for today. I'm just finishing up my 'Hoar Frost' embroidered ditty so I'll be posting pics of that up in the next few days,  plus I know Katie's finished the cutest owl, her biggest yet, as I've seen it, so I virtually implore her to post pics of this too. 

Pleasant grey skies People! 

Nina x x x