Backyard Roses Blog Tour

Hello hello!  Today it’s my stop on the Back­yard Roses Blog Tour.    This beau­ti­ful fab­ric is the work of my friend Nadra Ridge­way of Ellis & Higgs for Riley Blake Designs.  It is just the pret­ti­est fab­ric and I love everything about it!

I tend to use a lot of pink in the pro­jects I sew but from the moment I saw this col­lec­tion the Green Bou­quet print just pulled at my heart strings.   With so many fant­ast­ic col­ours it was a tough choice but in the end the green won out and I decided to make a pro­ject that fea­tured it and just a couple of the oth­er prints.

That pro­ject was going to be a bag but then.… anoth­er idea struck and I thought I’d make this little slee­p­over set.

The pil­low slip has a simple pieced and quilted front pan­el and, an envel­ope clos­ure.   Rather than hav­ing vis­ible seams on the inside I opted to bind the pil­low slip with the Green Bou­quet print.   I think it fin­ishes it off really neatly and looks great too.    The tote bag isn’t too large but it com­fort­ably fits a slee­p­over­’s amount of ‘stuff’, includ­ing an elec­tron­ic device or two, perfectly.

This is what slee­p­over days look like at our house… everything ready at the front door approx­im­ately 6 hours before the time we’re actu­ally leav­ing to drop them off!

Some­how the pack­ing away is nev­er quite as quick but I do like that the pil­low slip fits neatly inside the bag and can be popped in the cup­board ready for the next sleepover.

Thanks so much for stop­ping by today.

Don’t for­get to drop by and see what all of the oth­er tal­en­ted blog­gers on the tour have been mak­ing with Nad­ra’s beau­ti­ful fabric.