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time catching up with friends and family and eating far too much scrumptious food as always it went by too fast the preperations up to the days itself were fairly hectic but i did manage to fit in a spot of christmas crafting which i am now able to share with you i ll let the sadly poor quality iphone pictures do most of the talking knitted angel made from a kit free with let s knit magazine which is now sitting proudly atop our tree homemade gift tags honey cowl applique cushion inspired by a design from cath kidston a couple of pairs of pj shorts for the boy how awesome is the dinosour fabric sadly all used up now but i am aiming to find more so i can have a piar for myself that s all my christmas crafting this year a lot of my gifts were food based for example for both our sets of parents the boy and i made up hampers full of a mixture of homemade and bought foody goodies i am pleased to say these went down really well so i m sure they will be repeated in years to come who doesn t like food after all i can also now reveal what i received from my sewist s secret santa beautiful merino wool funky lace and owl buttons of course thank you santa did you take part in the sewists secret santa feel free to share the link below once you have blogged about your gifts and if i get enough i ll do a round up post thanks to everyone who took part i look forward to seeing everyone s goodies did you take part in any christmas crafting this year k xx follow my blog with bloglovin posted by kat at 2 45 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 10 december 2013 easy reusable sandwich wraps hello all and happy december hope it s going well for you so far i must admit that i am not yet feeling very christmassy although i am increasingly feeling the pressure to get going properly on my christmas shopping eek we are hopefully going to buy out christmas tree this weekend i really want a real one for the first time this year so i m sure that will help matters today i have a very quick and easy project to share with you i am not quite sure how to describe these if i m honest lunch wraps sandwich wraps the word wrap always makes me think of a tortilla whatever you decide to call it answers on a postcard please this is a nifty little creation that can be used to wrap up your sandwiches bagel crumpets biscuits cake and keep them nice and safe during transort avoid crumbs are reuable and look so much prettier that a plastic bag the little plastic bags you get to pack sandwiches etc in are a bug bear of mine i find them so wasteful and i am very pleased to have found a reusable alternative guess which one i made for myself and which is for the boy i used a tutorial which can be found here the outside is cotton and the wraps are lined with pul or polyester polyurethane laminate a washable waterproof and food safe fabric i bought mine from fabritastic but there are many other suppliers this is a great project for using up scraps of pretty fabric these wraps were made from a 13 inch square and i can just about fit a bagel or a slice of bread in i think that the next time i make these and i predict there will be many more to come i would increase the size to 15 inch square also i would add a fabric tab over the velcro strap just to make it look a bit neater otherwise nothing to add these are a quick easy and useful make which have been much admired in the tea room at work i am planning to make some for christmas presents in other news i have joined forces with samantha schofield to organise a creative and crafty blogger meet up on 11th january in nottingham this will be a chance for creative crafty bloggers to meet up and we will be having a craft swap goodie bags and discussions all in a new cafe based in the city centre i f you would like to come along please get in touch k xx posted by kat at 1 20 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 11 november 2013 charlotte kelly skirt hello everyone i hope you all had a fabulous weekend last weekend i set up my sewing room and i am pleased to report that i am now back in the sewing game i am also equally pleased that i am finally able to share with you my latest make the kelly skirt by megan nielsen i ve called this my charlotte kelly skirt because it is pretty much an exact copy of inspired by a skirt made by charlotte from charlie says so charlie s wore her skirt to the birmingham meet up earlier in the year and i loved the black and red combination so much that i set about purchasing the materials required to make my own right there and then the main fabric is a cotton linen blend from barry s fabric superstore in birmingham this was my first time working with a linen and i must say it was a delight to work with this skirt has been a work in progress for a very long time it came together pretty quickly and i actually wore it to the london meet up on 3rd august seen here with paddington proof it was summer look at those bare legs i feel chilly just looking at this picture now however i had a serious problems with the fit of this skirt and i realised just how bad it was after i spent the whole day of the meet up tugging my skirt down basically what happened was i tried to be a little bit clever i struggle with skirts that are fitted at the waist and prefer to wear them on my hips so although i loved the kelly skirt pattern i was unsure if the style would suit me to overcome the waist issue i planned to extend the waistband so that it would fall to my hips instead turns out this was an error you can see from the picture below that the result was a massively gaping waistband excuse the flesh on show i have since learnt that there are differences in waistbands for skirts that sit on the waist and those that sit on the hips waist waistbands are straight whereas those that sit on the hips are curved makes sense right this was a revelation to me when rachel explained this to me thanks rachel after the meet up this skirt was put to one side for several months until last weekend when i picked it up again i pinched in the waistband at each side and lined up the resulting fold with the side seam so that it looked like part of the pattern i pinned both sides to check the fit then pressed and hand sewed the fold in place i generally avoid hand sewing wherever possible mostly because i m lazy but i was glad i did it on this occasion because the end result was pretty neat and it really didn t take that long i just can t believe it took me so many months to apply this really simple fix a few close ups of the details firstly these beautiful buttons which came from birmingham rag market i was a bit scared about the seven button holes required for this skirt but once i had done a few practise goes it really wasn t that bad honest i think that if i make this skirt again which i quite possibly will i would interface the button planket as well as the waistband just to strengthen it also my favourite feature there are owls in the pockets owls yes i copied this from charlie too but come on owls are my thing it had to be done and i m sure i would have come up with this idea anyway left to my own devices maybe so there we have it a very red kelly skirt finally completed i m a bit sad i left it so long and it is now autumn because this was lovely to wear in the summer as it is so light and comfy oh well next year now is the time to wrap up warm in tights and scarfs and it works just fine with tights too on the topic of winter or more precisely christmas apologies for the c word if you fancy taking part in this year s sewist s secret santa you have until sunday 17th november to sign up so pop over to the link and find out what the fun is all about and there are some handy dates there too so you ca plan your shopping k xx posted by kat at 1 30 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 5 november 2013 sewist s secret santa 2013 edition hello everyone thank you very much for all your lovely comments and messages in response to my last post we have been in our new house for just over four weeks now and we are definitely getting there it is feeling much more like home now and i even unpacked my sewing machine in my brand new sewing room at the weekend photos coming soon for now though i am pleased to announce the return of the sewist s secret santa i know it s only just november and you probably haven t even started thinking about christmas or christmas presents yet but following the success of last year i have decided to organise it again with a bit more advance planning this time here is how it will work and how you can sign up 1 send me an email to kraftykatblog at gmail dot com by sunday 17th november with the following information your name a link to your blog if you have one your postal address and also whether you are happy to post internationally also if you would like to provide a short snippet of information for me to send on to your santa please do for example i m a sewist and a knitter i love spots and lace and big prints 2 i will play santa and pick everyone s secret santa out of a probably metaphorical hat i will split between people happy to post internationally and those who would prefer not to this will not be a straightforward pairwise swap otherwise everyone will know who their santa is and that just defeats the object 3 i will send everyone an email telling them who they will be buying for along with their address blog link information by sunday 24th november 4 present buying this bit is completely up to you however please try and keep within the limit which is 5 or equivalent internationally you can make buy thrift your presents or even shop your stash it s completely up to you 5 pop your gift in the post don t forget this is supposed to be a secret santa so it s most fun if you don t let on who the present is from please keep an eye on the last dates for posting before christmas check here for last royal mail posting dates the earliest last posting date is 4th december for anyone posting to new zealand please try to post your parcel by monday 16th december to make sure it arrives in time for christmas 6 receive your present and pop it under the tree or open immediately if you must however please wait until after christmas to share on your blog and feel free to speculate about who your santa might be i had so much fun shopping for my secret santa last year and am looking forward to doing it all again if you have any questions please feel free to drop me an email or write a comment below and i ll get back to you as soon as i can ho ho ho k xx posted by kat at 12 40 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 12 october 2013 normal service will resume shortly we moved into our new house last week just one day before marie moved into her s there is not really a mass leicester exodus going on to my knowledge at least and the last few days have been a blur of boxes and small victories it s amazing how exciting it can be to unpack something as insignificant as a good chopping board that has been hidden for days i was sad to leave leicester after over 7 years there but i am excited to move out of the city and start a new adventure while we are making progress with getting the house in order i m not sure there is going to be much sewing going on in these parts just yet i m lucky enough to have my own sewing room a k a the spare room in the new place but it is currently looking a bit like this a bit of work to do here i think you ll agree if it was up to me the sewing room would be the first to be sorted out but unfortunately the boy doesn t agree at least someone is making herself at home as long as sally has a sofa and her biscuits she s happy i am excited to make the new house a home and furnish it with handmade goodness we left all our curtains at the old house and although we have managed to snag a few freebies to keep us going in the meantime i really want to try making my own curtains this will be a first for me though and i m frankly a bit clueless if anyone out there has dabbled in curtain making i would be most grateful for any hints tips or handy links you can offer right boxes are calling or maybe a bit of x factor hmmmm p s apologies for poor quality iphone pics if anyone has any idea where i might have hidden my camera in a box is not a valid answer please let me know k xx posted by kat at 1 18 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 21 september 2013 sewing with oilcloth when my mum first asked me if i would make her a bag from oilcloth i was a little bit dubious having never sewn anything with oilcloth before i wasn t sure how to go about it i had read that i might need a special foot tissue paper and all sorts of other complicated bits and bobs however in the end it turns out oilcloth is not really that scary fiddly yes but scary no a bit of research lead me to norfolk textiles who have a huge range of oilcloth in many many different patterns i wasn t sure what to expect but i took advantage of the free swatches they offer to order some samples and let my mum pick her favourite she also chose a simple canvas tote bag pattern from martha stewart s encyclopedia of sewing and fabric crafts it s the bag on the front of cover in fact as a basis for the bag i ended up making a few adjustments including chopping about three inches off the top and attaching the straps to the inside of the bag rather than the outside since this was my first time sewing oilcloth i had a bit of a practice run on a small strip of oilcloth first until i was happy with how the material was moving through the machine so how was sewing oilcloth any different to sewing with other fabrics here are a few pointers i covered my standard sewing machine foot with masking tape to stop it sticking i tried attaching masking tape to the feeder plate too but that really didn t work note to self if you cover up the teeth that feed the fabric through the machine it won t move through properly duh i used a denim needle i found it helpful to pull the cloth through the machine slightly to make sure it fed through smoothly other than that it was pretty much business as usual to make the straps i folded the oilcloth and sewed down the raw edge the great thing about oilcloth is that it does not fray which means there is no need to finish the seams it is not advisable to use pins with oilcloth because they leave a mark so instead i marked the position of the straps with a felt tip pen and placed the straps in position when i sewed the top of the bag down i then sewed around the straps in a box shape to add a bit of strength sewing this bag was a bit of a learning curve but i m pleased with how it turned out and hopefully my mum will be too the whole bag was made from half a metre of oilcloth which makes it a prett...