La Mammina

Some results

I have a stall at the Bondi Markets every Sunday. I'm hoping to one day open a baby shop in Bondi Beach, but I'm starting small by doing the markets. My plan was never to make my own products, I was just going to source original products from around the world. However, as fate would have it, the products are taking on a more "hand-made" approach. I never planned to make anything myself, I have left that up to my Mum and my Grandma. A fellow Mum from Playgroup also supplies me with some of her products and I have another lady who approached me at the stall and offered me some of her products to sell too. Well, now I want to join in the creativity! And above is one of my offerings. They are a pair of slippers for the expectant mum's hospital bag. (In case it it illegible, the embroidery says Boy? on one slipper and Girl? on the other). I get a lot of people coming to the stall and saying how much they love my products, but don't want to buy anything because they don't know the baby's gender. So the slippers are a little gimmicky offering that I thought of.

This is one of the flannelette wraps I'll be doing for the winter. Mum kept me supplied with some very pretty muslin ones for the summer, but now it is time to prepare for the cold weather.

I like to try to do some knitting whilst sitting at the stall.

And here is something I am very proud of. I whipped it up last week, a bag for my knitting.

Now, I really must get on with making some clothes for Tilly. Fortunately, we have just experienced a nice summery patch, but that cold weather is just around the corner.

Things on the go

Well, I have a lot of things on the go. And not a lot to show for it.

Above is an idea I'm having for a bib for my market stall. It's a sort of green denim, with a piece of "vintage" lace sewn across the front. The whole things is covered with iron on vinyl and then satin bias binding around the edge. I have already unpicked the horribly puckered binding from the neckline and I think I've solved the problem and will attempt to fix it tonight. I call the lace "vintage" because I found it in a bag of notions in an old suitcase at a bric-a-brac stall at the markets. There were a whole heap of different pieces of lace and I thought this would be a good idea for them.

I'm also working on a knitting project for a little two year old's birthday. I have to get that finished by Thursday and things are looking grim, as I'm using a different size needles/yarn than the pattern specifies and am trying to adapt it (I'm trying to do this on my third ever project, very ambitious I know!!). It is turning out very long and thin!!!!

I have a few other ideas to make some things for my market stall, but more about them later. It is so hard trying to find time to fit sewing into my day. The only time I can really do it is once I have put Tilly to bed, but by that time I'm exhausted and the idea of getting the sewing machine out (it doesn't have a permanent home) is just too much.

Having said that, I think I might go and make a bag out of this (from my local St Vincent De Paul op shop)

We're going away for Easter and I need to take my long, skinny knitting with me. My current solution of a ripped paper bag is not satisfactory!