The Sewing Room Sort-out of 2010.

As the title suggests, I have been sifting through my sewing room trying to clear some space in there and restore order to obvious chaos.  Perhaps that's why I haven't been sewing much.
It's rather depressing to pack unfinished projects into boxes but most of them are clothes for girls and this bump just happens to be a boy!  I have, thankfully, found some of my creations which I can proudly hang with the other clothes for Baby Beastie, can't wait to finally see them being worn.  Here are a couple of kimono wrap tops, the fish fabric is my absolute favourite:

I also found the felt octopus that I randomly made one day, I really love him:

So you see, it's not all doom and gloom clearing out the sewing room, (apart from this dress, which I would have loved to see being worn):

It will also give me a chance to have a good look through all my fabrics and be inspired to get creating for the baby.  I have a pile of mens shirts, (willingly donated I might add...I don't hang around mens changing rooms or anything), which I'm going to transform into dungarees.  This is blatantly copied from Sparrowarms who made a gorgeous pair for her Baby Sparrow.

I must also make a start on writing up some baby books which will, of course, contain Baby Beastie as the star.  I'm thinking pirates...aahaaar.  My first instinct is to go non-rhyming but they are crap to write and bloody boring to read!

Well, it's onwards and upwards as we rocket towards another weekend.  I've passed the 21 week mark and hoping that December is here in a flash, simply can't wait to meet my son.

Photo Updates!

My blog posts have been very lacking in the photo department recently, an oversight that I wish to rectify this morning!
Here is the 20 week scan photo of Baby Jones, look at his cute little nose!

I'm so tempted to have a 4D scan done but it's such a lot of money.  I think my dizzy/faint spell at the last scan has convinced me that my money would probably be wasted as I'd only last about 10 minutes before feeling unwell.  Maybe Mr Beastie can use the money to buy more buggies instead!

Baby Jones is very lucky to have two awesome knitters in the family, namely Nana and Granny.

Granny sent me a photo of the most recent creation which is kindly modelled by the gorilla again.

I struggle to knit with 2 colours in stripes, my mother is a knitting god!

And finally, (and due to me not being on my home pc and lacking interesting photos), a trio of monkeys.  Two of these guys found new homes and the hearts one was kindly made for me by Sparrowarms.

I heart him a lot :)

I have BIG plans for more creations over the coming weeks.  I had a dream about making dungarees last night and awoke with an urge to sew...woohooo!  Now, the challenge is to make them without convincing myself that I need more fabric....although all of mine is very much girl-orientated....boys should have skulls...oh, and tractors.  I feel a trip to the fabric mothership coming on......I can feel my bank account wince at the very thought :)

Sew Not Happening.

Where has my unquashable sewing urge gone?  Me no know....
I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, not least because I'm having to downsize my sewing room but also most of my 'active' (unfinished) projects are cute girls dresses and the likes.  No use to me and my future son!  I have been experimenting with fabric paints and white babygrows though, without much success I might add but they do look less dull.
My almost sister and very good pal Sparrowarms (see her blog in my list) is mostly a sewing genius.  I must post a photo of the baby changing bag she made me, it is simply fabulous and I must admit I've already started to use it pre-baby and may well be loathed to put nappies and wipes in there!
We are having a travel-system crisis in our house, Mr Beastie seems to have become a bit obsessed by it all and spends hours each night trawling the interweb for bargains and reviews.  He cannot resist a bargain and to his credit is an awesome bargain hunter.  I, on the other hand, am not all that fussed which one we have as long as it's easy to use...I really dislike faffing and would happily pull baby along in a cart provided it was 'simples'.
Well, it's clocking out time and I have chocolate cake in my fridge.............