really easy baby bib make

soooo...I'm now 3 days past my due date and there's no sign of this baby turning up! so despite being the size of a house I am determined to keep busy. Iv been meaning to make my own bandanna style bibs for ages, with my first born I spent a small fortune on them, and realised too late just how simple they are to make. So I picked though my fabric stash, found some bits I liked and that are unisex! and basically traced around an old bib of my sons, used that template to cut out the fabric and the cotton backing, them whizzed it through the sewing machine inside out leaving a little gap to turn it right side out, sewed up that hole, and added some poppers, basically cost nothing, and each one took less then 15mins. It is addictive, because it ticks so many boxes for me, its a project that is super quick, it uses up fabric I cant find any other use for and they are going to be practical...

so I'm off to make some more and hopefully baby will decide to turn up this week.

 

 

 

creative holidays....

I'm now officially the most pregnant I have ever been!

 summer holidays+ 3 year old+ pregnancy = a challenge!

so we have been getting creative, seeing as tree climbing and football in the garden are off my list for the time being, we have been painting, scrap booking, baking and making good use of the library!

I have found keeping busy is very helpful, and this mobile design has been in my head for about 6 months, I finally finished it, and I love it! its incredibly satisfying making something for your child, that you know is just for them...now I might have to make my son a big kid version...robots and dinosaurs knowing him!

We also found this amazing little place in St Albans called pots of art, which lets you paint a piece of pottery, which they then fire and you collect a week later, it was a lovely way to spend 2 hours, and I now have something I will treasure forever made by my son.

 

now roll on September!!

 

its been a while......

well its been a while...

I'm now at the every end of pregnancy, the bit here your feet swell and walking 5 minutes down the road seems to take all day! Work is definitely on the back burner at the moment and the nesting instinct as well and truly kicked in. not only is my house the tidiest its every been, my 'stuido' (essentially a shelving unit covered in fabric, thread and ribbon) is all packed away and replaced with baby stuff!
Its my sons first summer holidays, and we had the chance to go away for a week to France, at 34 weeks pregnant it was a challenge, it was hot, and humid and I slept a LOT but it was an amazing week full of very happy memories, good food and lots of photos!
I have had time for a little bit of making, its sometime really lovely to just make something for fun....
My son tried his hand at plate decorating, he painted, I traced over his lines, it will be fired and ready to use as a real plate in a weeks time!
I also made a start on a baby mobile, I have big plans for it, with elephants, clouds and balloons, and I hope it will be done in time!

July makes and winding down......

Happy July! Summer has finally arrived and it is lovely! I wish I wasn't 8 months pregnant and could actually wear comfortable clothing, and enjoy the heat wave, oh well, there's always next year (hopefully). So after a busy 7 months for Me&My I'm finally able to slow down the pace, 4 regular stockists, a lot of plans in action for autumn, and a emerging customer base means I can actually start making something for the baby with out having a load of orders needing my attention.

I always have a list of new things I want to make, with my son it was a cot quilt, which having never made one before was a tricky task, but 4 years later its still going strong, despite being washed a million times and dragged through the park several times , so this time around my new make is a mobile, I'm going to scale down my toy ellie design and see how that goes! in the mean time I made my baby its first toy (not knowing the gender means using as many colours as I can!) and my first attempt at a dribble bib! (as modelled by bear) enjoy the weather, my heart goes out to all the heavily pregnant women out there who are just preying for a cool breeze! :-)

 

 

July! already?

 

Wow, so June flew by in a whirl of making and designing, what started out as a break from clothing design has turned in to its own little business, Our Me&My soft toy range is proving incredibly popular and they continue to sell out at all our stockists a scary rate!

This week we have added a whale toy, taking a break from the world of floral and pastel patterns and going for something bold! these little beauties will be available at our Etsy Shop MeMyUk or selected designs are available at our stockists, Felix & Lily's in Islington, We Make London in Camden and Raindrops on Roses in St Albans....

 

 

Im a busy bee

 

 

 

 

This week I have mostly been sewing, sewing and more sewing! not to mention running around London with bags of stock, dropping them off to different stockists, its all very exciting and lovely to see that hard work does pay off, and all the late nights, sore fingers and neglected house work are worth it when your stock actually sells out! amazingly at 7 months pregnant I feel full of energy and ideas, and can believe in a few months Il have a tiny person to look after and all this will have to take a break or be handed over to a very clever friend of mine to run for a while!

what do you think of the new designs? everyone loves elephants! I'm thinking I will attempt to make a whale soft toy next, but for now its back to sewing these little ellies up for my Etsy shop!

 

 

Stockists

Felix and Lilys http://www.felixandlilys.com/

We make London,Camden pop up boutique http://www.wemakelondon.co.uk/

Raindrops on Roses http://www.raindropsonroses.org.uk/home.html

an obsession with Elephants....

 

Now I'm a fabric hoarder, I tend to stick to the same key colours and styles in my designs, but like a magpie I will buy anything that catches my eye, and I had this beautiful brushed suede sitting on my shelf for nearly a year, there is only about half a metre of this and I couldn't bring myself to chop it up, then one night when my mind was racing with ideas I decided to try and make a suede Ellie and I love it! (its the cream one in the photo) Suede is a joy to work with, it is strong and doesn't fray, and it feels amazing! so I now have VERY limited stock of cream suede luxe Ellies. Wish I could keep them all, but that just wouldn't be fair!

 

These beauties will be available at my Etsy Shop shortly....
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MeMyUk