More Pee Jays

It must be that time of year when you realise that you don't have any warm pyjamas.  I am seeing them pop-up on a few others blogs too! I especially liked these flannelette sheet matching pants.

Again, I just bought this fabric from Spotlight.  I've had a few more requests from family and friends so I'd appreciate if anyone can recommend a good online fabric store than sells flanno - the usual places I go don't seem to stock it.

I think I am going to replace the brown ribbon with some twill tape.  This ribbon is hard and doesn't tie properly.  Plus I'm not sure I have ever seen male PJs with ribbon!

This time I did use flanno in the pockets.  Just didn't have any cotton in my stash that went well with the fabric.

I take it as a good sign that they were worn last night even though there was already another clean pair available.

Pee-Jay pants

I got this cute Japanese-looking flannelette from Spotlight and couldn't wait to get it home to whip up some pee-jay pants.  I am gifting them to my sister in Melbourne.  She's on a tight budget at the moment so hopefully they will be appreciated.

I need to make some for myself now!

I used a completely different cotton for the pockets.  I thought flanno might be a bit bulky.

Oh yes!  I used the comfy pants pattern from this book for these but added the drawstring ribbon for fun.

Shopping

An unplanned stop-off at my local opshop lead to a good find recently.  That, combined with a big clean-out I recently had at home, has sparked a renewed enthusiasm for venturing to some 'new' opshops.

I picked up this green glass bowl.  The photo doesn't really do it justice.

These artworks.  Not quite sure where or how I will hang them yet.

Check out the artist's name!

I also collected some fabric (not that I need more).

This one will become PJ shorts for a friend who was actually the one that found it.

And these mugs.  I like their brown rims and the way the handles go all the way up to the top.  They also happen to be the perfect size for the coffee machine I bought with my birthday money!

From Nanna's

My Nanna moved in the last few weeks and Mum saved a few things from the 'red cross box' for me before it got donated!

These pieces of enamelware that I am planning to clean using this handy tutorial.

These coasters (which really reminded me of you, Kylie)...

... and the farm animals we used to play with as kids.

The feeding pig was always my favourite!

Vintage sheet quilt

Finally!  Another quilt for this year.  For some reason blogging becomes a bit of a problem when I'm not making any.

This one is made from vintage sheet fats quarters I collected and received as a result of this swap (just realised that this was over a year ago)!  It is a mix of old sheets and new fabrics from my stash.  The nice thing about these floral sheets is that there are plenty of colour cues in the prints but for some reason it doesn't come out looking all matchy-matchy like commercially produced quilting ranges sometimes do.

I think it even goes quite well with the cushion my sister gave me for my birthday!

Flapperdoodle stitching

I made this too!  Now that I have finished these girls, I want to stitch more.  The pattern is from Flapperdoodle.

I made a lunch bag!

This is a little overdue because I made this about a month ago!  I made my sister a lunch bag for her birthday... and then used the scraps to make a couple of stubby holders because I figured it might be more likely that she would use the bag to hold a six-pack than her lunch.

I used oilcloth from Spotlight but can't wait to make more lunch bags using fabric from here.

I trawled through various tutorials for lunch bags however most I came across didn't tick all my boxes - lined, oilcloth, sturdy.  After all of my research, I came to the conclusion that I could just make my own pattern - after all it is just rectangles!

I made a dummy model (which was actually good enough for me to use for myself but not good enough for a present) and then made a few alterations like put the strap at the back of the bag and use a long strip of velcro to close it.

Let me know if you think a tutorial on this would be handy for you and next time I make one, I'll post up the instructions!