Crafty Holiday Fun

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Here in South Australia we are one week into the school holidays so the girls have been looking for things to entertain themselves with. Today we decided we would start to cover over some of the stains on their plain t-shirts. Out came my scrap bag and I left them to it. First they decided what colour combinations they wanted. This involved pulling out their new pants and skirts and picking fabrics that matched. Then making up the words they wanted, finding fonts on Word and printing them. Vanessa then traced the words onto fusible webbing. I had the fun job of cutting out the tiny letters and ironing.

As you can see they're pretty pleased and were soon off in search of more t-shirts stained or otherwise.

I haven't stitched round them so I'm not sure how they will go in the wash.

In between I managed to get something made too! A new placemat.

I used the linen look Osnaburg, lovely to work with and I am pleased with the machine hemstitch.

One down, three to go.

Oh, and would I be crazy to be making my own tea towels??? Everytime I buy them they are hopeless, don't absorb water or like my latest ones leave fluff on every thing. Think of all the beautiful fabrics I could trim them with... Will have to do a test with the osnaburg and see if it is suitable.