Birds and Trees of long ago...

Okay, enough of the sniffling and back to the crafting...

and I do mean waaaay back...

...to Christmas in fact...

I know, eek!

As well as the Swallow pouch I posted a long long time ago, I also stitched up two other pouch from the wonderful Bend the Rules Sewing. The first is made from an amazing ikea bird and flower fabric I got a couple of years ago. When having my big craft room sort out, I discovered I am quite the hoarder! I have so much fabric that I am saving for a special thing yet never remember it when those something come along. I must learn to me less precious about fabrics and finding, wheres the fun of hiding them away! I'm sure I'm not the only one, right?

A present for a friend is always a good project for lovely fabric I find! And that what we have... with a scatter of bead stitched in to the pattern and a lovely puffy flower, 

which I discovered may lovely little trees as well...

This is one of my favourite things I stitched last Christmas.

It super simple but I just find it oh-so-cute...

Struggling to give it away (but I was good, I did to my dearest friend) I promised I would may something similar for myself and as I found the picture this morning one thing popped into my head...

'Ooh! Placements!'

So back I'll go to the Bend-the-Rules book as I'm sure there were lovely placement instructions in there.

There is some many lovely things in there, everyone should have it (or her other book which I bet is just as awesome and on my wish list)

First I need to unpack my little fabric suitcase and hope all the ingredients are in there...

Have lovely weekends and thank you for your sweetness!

xo