The Soup Project

thanks to the lovely Blogger having a meltdown - I am way behind on my normal KCWC posts so thought I may as well post this while I am at it. Then I will post the rest of my KCWC stuff.
I have been a part of the S26 Soup project lately. Soup is a website where you can be a part of various trials and samples. I was lucky enough to be picked to do the S26 trial and seeing as my darling little boy won't touch cows milk this was the perfect trial for us. It was quite interesting watching his response as he has mostly been on the same 2 formulas since birth mainly for fear of trying a new one and him not liking it. He took a suck and then looked at me like "what is this?" then took another taste and then guzzled the bottle.
It's definitely something that we would buy again and I love the little ready to go milk cartons for when you are going out. Although the little sachets are also great for taking out places. Charlie is nearly 2 but is quite attached to his bottle. Jack was the same but finally decided he'd had enough just after 2 so will be interesting to see if Charlie does the same.
They also sent us a wee cookbook which was awesome - with lots of recipes with S26 in them, great if you have picky eaters and need to get those nutritional bits into your kids diets.
Thanks Soup and S26!!

KCWC Day 2

I didn't have much of a chance to get much sewing done yesterday -
but I thought I'd share with you the Heidi and Finn hoodie
that i made Jack a couple of weeks ago.
It's the first time I have made the Heidi and Finn Urban Hoodie pattern.
I LOVE the style but found that the sizing is really small and the arms are really
skinny. I had already been pre-warned about the sleeves so I cut them quite a
bit wider.  I made Jack the size 5 - he is 4 and it's quite short on him.
I will make another for Charlie and see how the size 3 is on him at just about 2.
I used some fire engine buttons made by a friend Nicci Buttons by benji.
They finish it off so beautifully - Nicci makes the most amazing buttons.
I have some Robot ones still to use and then have plans to get
some more especially some of her dinosaurs and i might need to
persuade her to make some helicopters for Charlie.   
I made it with a lovely soft Charcoal coloured terry backed knit and a 
red, black and grey striped lycra as the lining. I used a black ribbing on the sleeve
cuffs and the bottom cuff.  And of course buttons from buttons by benji.
It also has a gorgeous wee fire engine Applique on it - this is thanks to my lovely
friend Claire and her wonderful embroidery machine 

Day 1

Well day 1 of kids clothes week saw me spending a few hours finalising things for a Fashion parade that was held last night at the Musterers Hut. I have sewed about six outfits for this in the last week and the kids did an awesome job - it was a showcasing of different clothing designers from around the area. I had 3 kids and sewed 2 outfits each for them. They looked gorgeous. Now of course i took photos right - ummmm ooops NO. I forgot my camera. Typical I was in such a rush to get out the door I forgot to take it. However there were lots of people there taking pics and have asked a friend to forward some on to me. So as soon as I receive them I will update this post. The oldest wee girl (A) was wearing a Two Little Taniwha red merino hoodie with her own skinny jeans. The other wee girl (K) was wearing a Pink merino top with apple print and a double layer skirt and red merino leggings. The wee boy (J)was wearing a green merino hoodie with a helicopter print on it. Both merino hoodies were lined in the hood with a stripy Cotton Lycra and i also used this to bind the arms and the hood.
The second outfits were (A) a pillowcase dress with her own leggings and a pink merino top with a ballerina print (not that you could see the ballerina). (K) was wearing a retro round yoked dress made with a gorgeous Michael Miller cord and a lovely Aqua cord to match. She was wearing the same wee pink merino underneath and some Aqua and cream striped merino leggings. (J) was wearing a merino top with a Robot print on it. Now you are probably wondering why my boys weren't up there modelling - well Jack plain refused to do it and Charlie is just a bit little yet.
Stay tuned for pics.... (providing it's Ok with the kids parents ;-))

Kids clothes week

I am going to try and take part this year. 
All I have to do is commit to sewing kids clothes for at least 1 hour a day.
Not so hard eh.....  

The only thing that will throw me off is if I get called in to work.
I'm looking forward to it.

Homemade kids clothes swap

On TNN we did a Homemade kids clothes swap. I was given 2 wee girls to sew for. One being very little - only 4 months old and one being 18 months. I love sewing girls clothes for a change from the boys clothes I always seem to be sewing. So I knew I would have fun with this one.
My swaps have been sent off but not quite received and I know they will be received in the next day or so. So lets hope the recipients don't look here.
For the 4 month old girl i made a very cute and teeny tiny little dress from 2 different lots of corduroy. This is a similar pattern to the ones I shared about a couple of months ago. I changed a few bits and pieces with the pattern.

I used cute little flower snaps for the closures.
I ran one corduroy sideways and one up and down for something a bit different.

For the 18 month old girl I made a wee Merino Tunic from a pattern I made up. I kinda went along the same lines as the Charlie tunic but obviously without sleeves, but I liked the way the quilting cotton was a feature.
If I had girls I would have struggled to give these away - they are just soo lovely... Just as well we don't have girls eh....

HELP!!!!

Jack and I have been reading this book called Nat Fantastic, which he loves.
Nat turns into a superhero at bedtime when his Mum leaves the room.
Great story by the way. And this is the HELP part of the post... Jack asked me yesterday - "Mum can you make me some of pyjamas just like that?" Hmmmm So where will i find silver fabric suitable for pj's???????? I have had my thinking cap on thinking of all the different ways to do this - Dye??? Won't give the same sheen as a nice silver fabric, If i can find silver fabric suitable for sleeping in then i could print stars on the fabric.... Possibly....
Then I also have to find something similar to the pants....... So hence my HELP moment - any ideas out there?????

I won something!!!

From Wildflowers and Whimsy blog. It's a lovely necklace and 2 cute wee hairclips. I am thinking about giving them as a gift as I know the perfect person to pull them off.
They are a lovely turquoise colour - which just happens to be one of my favourite colours at the moment.

They arrived beautifully packaged up with pink tissue paper and a ribbon around it.

Wildflowers and Whimsy is an awesome blog - go and check it out.