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Evening,

Today I was in the newspaper!!

The Tyrone Herald did a lovely write up.😍

This is an absolutely fantastic write up. 😀

I cannot stress enough how good sewing and crafting is for Mental Health.

My aim now is to get sewing clubs into a few more schools!

Have a lovey evening.

Hugs
Heather
xxx

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Good Afternoon all,

The school summer holidays have srarted! One week down, 7 to go 😮🙄😊

We go on our holidays very soon! I cannot wait!

The start of July is the start of #sewasoftie which is run by Coloured Buttons AKA Trixi, in Australia.

Each day of July a different blogger posts a tutorial, on their blog, showing how to make a cute softie!

The Duchie below is the one I made from Trixi's tutorial 😁 

My day is 9th July ... which is also my birthday! 🎂

Im really looking forward to that day!

#sewasoftie 

Heres a photo of me sewing!

The memory bears I made for the teachers gifts caught the attention of the local newspaper!

They are doing a write up on my sewing and the benefits of sewing! It will be amazing to have sewing publicised! The health benefits needed shouting about! Arts & crafts are great for the body and soul ❤

🧵✂️🧵✂️

Me Sewing 

Toys I Have Made

I love this photo! Cross Stitch and Sewing side by side! My two favourite hobbys 🥰

Teddy and
Summer Fairy

I finally made my Dresden Plate Quilt Blick into an actual cushion lol I made  the cushion cover quite some time ago but never actually finished it off! 

Here 'she' is in all her beautiful glory!

I just love the quilting detail.

Quilted Cushion

Details on Cushion

Quilting Details 

I had better get my tutorial finished off and ready to post on Tuesday 🥰 Then start getting my holiday bags packed 😁

Have a great weekend!

Hugs 

Heather 

xxxx

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Making Happy Memories

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Good Evening all,

Well thats the kiddies off school now until September!

In Northern Ireland our school break for Summer on the last weekday in June.

This year was Katie's last year at Primary school, so to mark her leaving we made her teacher and Headteacher a lovey gift each ... I would say that they are unique gifts 😍

I made them memory bears out of the kiddies spare school uniform!

Memory bears made from school uniform

I also made two butterfly hangers for two different teachers!

Lots of teacher sewing was happening in my home!!

SEWING CLUB AT 

DRUMRAGH INTEGRATED COLLEGE

                        

These are just a few lovely sewn pieces from the students of the Sewing Club

Here is too a summer time full of fun and mischief!

we are off on holidays soon.  I am so looking forward to it, I'm so ready for it!

I think over the summer I will do some cross stitching whilst watching the tennis and cycling! 

Time for a chill out and a give my sewing machine a rest from me hahaha!!

Have a fun safe summer everyone

Hugs

Heather

xxxxxx

Hello!!

Where did May go too??

Lots of busy crazy goings on here! 

At the moment I am sewing Graduation Gowns for Drumragh Integrated College. The Y8's have studied Positive Mental Health programme called Hopeful Mind.

This teachs them that there is Hope and how to change your way of thinking! Its an amazing course for children and adults alike!

The Graduation is on 25th June. I have 4 gowns left to make!

I am really looking forward to seeing the children Graduation. Ok it will be great seeing them in the gowns I made but also because I co-facilitated 2 courses.

It was great teaching the children. I have one lesson left with them and I plan on doing a bit of Art Therapy with them 😁

Im looking forward to it!

Have a great weekend!

Heather

xoxox

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Happy Easter to you all xxx
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Quilt Blocks and a Giant snake!!😁

Hello all!

This is what I have been upto ...

Quilting

And ....

A giant snake!! (Stuffed on I might say)

Dresden Plate Quilt Block

I just love this quilt block. So bright and colourful 🦋🦋🦋

I made a toy snake a while ago.

However Katie decided that she wanted a really, really long snake! I made him and Katie stuffed him, which I was glad about because he is rather long hahaga

He is 2 metres and 37cms long!!

He is called Sylis (sigh-lis)

Happy Easter all

Hugs

Heather

xxxx

Sewing in a #Sewingbee and for Easter

🌷 Hello Everyone 🌷

I hope you are all well.

The past week I've been full of cold 😷

It did not stop me sewing though!

Lovely Easter baskets and fabric flowers! The flowers look lovely on my window sill!!

Easter Sewing

Pencil Roll

Last weekend I took part in the Omagh Sewing Bee!

This is my transformation challenge.

I really enjoyed taking part in this fun competition 😍

Transformation Challenge
In the Omagh #SewingBee

Chocolate Rabbits
In Felt Eggs!

Easter Basket
and
Pencil Rolls

Easter Baskets

Yummy Bunny

Lovely #Handemade
Goodies