Author: Thimberlina

Birthday Cake Singer Sewing Machine!

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Originally posted on thecraftycreek:
I’ve got a big birthday this weekend so I’ve got 12 friends for dinner tomorrow night and I’ve just made myself a birthday cake, a few people have said ‘but that’s all work for you’ but that’s what I enjoy, I like it! A few years ago I was given a cake decorating book for my birthday. It’s by Zoe Clark and it’s called Vintage Cakes, there are some stunning cakes in there. As soon as I saw the sewing machine cake I decided I would make it for my 50th birthday…and here we are!! It takes an awful lot of cake, though due to a printing error, not as much as the instructions say! The base called for an 18″ x 16″ cake, it took several days to realise it probably should read 8″ X 16″, I had already decided I was just going to use two 8″ cakes stuck together.The actual machine is made from an 11″ chocolate cake, I went through an awful lot of eggs making those,…

Peg Bag Envy And Upcycling a Sports Shirt

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It’s almost 2 years since I made my first peg bag, and since then I’ve made quite a few.  Each one I’ve wanted to keep, but instead each was lovingly wrapped and gifted to some lucky friend or family member. For this next one I wanted to use one of H’s Yorkshire cricket shirts as it was for the husband and wife team who’ve looked after the under 13Bs this season. Here’s how you can upcycle a favourite sports or polo shirt that is no longer worn, but has too much sentimental value to give to the charity shops. Firstly you need to find some suitable hangers.  The ones I used are from Wilkinsons and come in a pack of 6 I think (it’s been a whilst since I bought them). The angle of the hanger won’t be the same angle as the shoulders of the top you’ll be using, so you need to do a C.H.A.   Bet you’ve not come across that one before!!??  It’s a coat hanger adjustment, lol!  Tickled me anyway! Turn …

Sunday Sevens Week 50 (me 25)

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Hi Everyone! Here’s my week in seven photos as thought up by Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins.  I was a late starter and have now been at it for 25 weeks! (pat on the back!) It’s great for me to keep a track of what I get up to, a bit like a mini diary I suppose, and it also shows you another side to Thimbers. 1   An unexpected surprise as we left Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.  I wasn’t driving! I’ve worked a couple of nights on the ambulance this week instead of the response car. 2   Played golf and won a £35 Marks and Spencer gift voucher!  It was so wet, we got drenched on the back 9.  And then afterwards we finalised and booked our ladies trip to Portugal next April!  There’s 8 of us going and it could get messy! 3    We’ve celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary this week and I must be a very good wife as Mr Thimbers bought me an Apple Watch!  I have been dropping …

Sunday Sevens Week 49 (me 24!) 

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These weeks are flying by, and those of you who joined Natalie right at the beginning of #Sunday Sevens I bet you can’t believe it’s nearly a year since it all started!  I wonder if Natalie is going to organise a party for us over at Threads & Bobbins?!     Here’s my week in sevenish photos: 1. Hubby’s work entered 4 teams in a golf day at Woodsome Hall Golf Club in Huddersfield.  His games not up to scratch so I stepped in and took his place! Woodsome Hall is steeped in history, it’s a 16th Century listed building set in the middle of stunning grounds which is now a golf course (and has been for over 100 years). The top photo shows the front of the building, and the one below show the 1st tee and putting green which would once have been the front lawn. It can be quite intimidating teeing off when there’s other golfers gathered round watching!     2. H’s last Yorkshire match of the season. Usually I take hundreds of …

Emily Culottes – The Jury’s Still Out

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I wore culottes in the 80’s.  I also wore bright yellow full length pencil skirts and goth make up for a short time (not together, I hasten to add), but it doesn’t mean I’m going to do it all again now I’m approaching my mid 40’s. Or does it!? Whilst browsing the blogasphere, which I’m currently spending more time doing than actually sewing, I stumbled across Maris’s post (over at Sew Maris) declaring she was going to host a sewalong to make Itch to Stitch’s Emily Culottes. I can’t recall at what point I decided to join in, but that’s not important.  What is important is that I did and I made them and now I’m wearing them!! TWO days in a row!  But I’m still not sure. A few of you might have heard of Itch To Stitch Patterns.   There’s quite a few Lindy Petal Skirts floating about on the net – it’s their free pattern and is really lovely and easy and on my to-do list. The Culottes.  That’s why your here isn’t …

The Denim and Jersey Aurora Tank By Seamwork

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Back in June I printed off one of the latest patterns (then it was!) by Seamwork – The Aurora Tank. I was inspired by Helena from GrayAllDay patterns to make one.  She made one every day for a week and came up with some fab colour combos, and she also discovered that the yoke could be make in a woven as well as a jersey. I traced the pattern off back then, but it wasn’t until a couple of days before our trip to Taunton in July that I got round to whipping one up.  Not sure if it took me 2 hours – I did cut some corners. I used a remnant of a jersey from my stash, and for the yoke I had some of the stretch denim from my recently made capri pants. I thought the denim would be too thick for the inside of the yoke so i was going to use an old black viscose top. After I’d cut it out I got lazy and decided the yoke didn’t need an inside …

Sunday Sevens Weeks 48 (me 23)

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Last week Monday was the new Sunday as there were a few of us who were late with their Sunday Sevens.  Yesterday I was too busy having fun at the seaside and was late back so here we are again, but as the old saying goes, better late than never!  I’ve not had chance to catch up on my reader from over the weekend yet. Here we go, my round up in seven-ish photos (I’ve had to fasten 3 together to count as one!) of my week, as invented by Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins: 1.   Our hebe bush in the garden is a mass of flowers at the minute, and bees! 2.   H Facetimed me whilst I was at work – I took a photo of the iPad screen.  Crazy boy!  Don’t know where he gets it from! 3.  Yorkshire v Lancashire away at Northern Cricket Club near Liverpool.  A long trek but we won so all smiles.  The little boy’s brother plays with H and he is only 6, and he loves …

Yarn Bombing in Taunton

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Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. I think I need to get out more as of up until last Saturday I’d never even heard of it! We were having a stroll around town before heading off home when we turned a corner and entered a small alley way. I was so excited! Everyehere i turned there was gob smacking creations! I wish I could take you there, but I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with photos, sorry!        The         i    It really was amazing! Stumbling across this alley gave a holiday our lovely happy ending. Have you heard of yarn bombing? Can you share any links to any other places that have been yarn bombed?!

Drum roll please…….. Gadget Giveaway Results!\\

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Remember a couple of weeks ago I announced a giveaway for the Reusable Swatch Kit from Janome?  Well they only went and sent the Swatch Buddy Expansion Kit too. So tonight I’ve been busy copy and pasting 38 names onto my iNotes then converting to PDF, printing, then passing on to the department downstairs (i’m upstairs in H’s bedroom on the iMac) to do cutting out, placing in a plastic bag and been drawn out of a hat!  It’s all been a bit crazy, especially as cricket is on TV and it’s hard for them 2 downstairs to concentrate when the TV’s on. So here we are, in no particular order: Trisha Corrineappleby Terzi Begum Little Miss Bunting Jendavismiller Curlsandskirls If you could drop me an email with your address I’ll pop them in the post! Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment and enter the giveaway.  I’m planning a follow up post with all your brilliant gadget ideas!

Sunday Sevens week 47 (me 22)

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Sunday Sevens – invented by Natalie over at Threads & Bobbins.  Letting you know what else we get up to outside our usual blog life! After a hectic week in Taunton in Somerset I’m now back to share my week in seven photos with you.  I’ve taken about 1,500 photos this week, so it’s been a bit tough to narrow in down!  H plays cricket for Yorkshire and they were taking part in a cricket festival, playing teams from Ireland, Cheshire, Kent, Cornwall and Dubai!  We came a respectable 2nd, which was fantastic considering we’re Yorkshire B team and we were playing all other A teams. Chief photographer….. not entirely sure how this started but I tend to take all the photos, and upload them onto a Facebook Group I’ve created. (like I don’t have enough to do, lol!)  Think I need to work on my posture! At the entrance to our caravan site there’s these gorgeous sweet peas…. Went out for a curry to an Authentic Indian Restaurant. I had a seafood platter as …