A spot of sewing

I had wanted to have a go at sewing some clothes for ages, literally years, and over the summer I finally took the plunge, spurred on by the purchase of this vintage fabric from a charity shop. I found a brilliant tutorial for a circle skirt here and have now made three! Two of which were made from fabric I bought two years ago, to make skirts with! Yes it has taken me that long!

I also had a go at making a top from this brilliant free tutorial and pattern . I know so many people who say they wish they could make their own clothes, and don't know where to start, being scared off by confusing looking patterns, and I was one of them. So I highly recommend these two projects to get you started! I have definitely caught the bug now! 

pearly collar

I'm not exactly great at sewing (though I'd like to change that), but I saw a tutorial for this in Mollie Makes and thought, now even I can manage that!

I bought a men's denim shirt on ebay, and made the it all together more feminine by sewing some beads onto the collar. A quick fix that Instantly makes It unique. Super, smashing, grand!

Lady in a hat

Just thought I'd share my latest completed illustration with you guys. I'm quite pleased with this one. It's one of the most striking images I've done for a while. Now I want to do more!

At the top is an image all three colour ways I tried. I struggled to decide which one to go for, and thought they looked quite nice all lined up together. Now I want blue hair too!

Squirrels!

Just a collection of squirrel goodness!

Jumper from Top Shop. Bought this about a month back, in fact I'm wearing it right now!

Gorgeous print by Sandra Dieckmann available from society6

adorable teeny tiny blue squirrel! Available from esty

ace card by Sally Boyle available from Folksy

Beautiful Necklace from here

Socks from TopShop

Want Want Want this bag from River Island!

Finally just a little image by me! :)

Amelia's Magazine (latest work)

Just a couple more illustration I have done for Amelia's magazine  over the last couple of weeks.

The articles they can be found in are here and here

Amelia's Magazine

Just a couple of illustrations I did for Amelia's Magazine 

It gave me the chance to do something a bit different, and the chance to make better use of my drawing tablet!

What I wore today!

I made my first contribution to the wonderful 'what I wore today' pool on photos site flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatiworetodaydrawings/

for those of you who haven't discovered this yet, you can happily wile away some time having a nosey at other people's outfits and brilliant drawings, I highly recommend it!