Melanie

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

Pink Mini-Wedding Cakes

Baking time again! It was Heather and one of the Claires birthday's last week at work and as it is wedding season I made these tiered mini-wedding cakes. I also made one for my parents as for their Christmas present last year I joined them to my own exclusive Cake…

My First Blog Giveaway!

To celebrate the fact that I have had my blog for almost a month I am going to have my first blog giveaway! I have made three little Matryoshka dolls and a tote bag for them to live in. Their names are Masha, Dasha and Kasha but to be honest…

Lilla Lotta

A wonderful parcel of handmade goodness has arrived from France! I discovered you could buy beautiful and very reasonably priced custom tape at Lilla Lotta's etsy shop on Karen Griska's Selvage Blog. Isn't it fantastic. You will see it soon on a little project I am working on for my…

Heirlooms

I read a definition of an heirloom quilt a while back, here it is: - A heirloom quilt is a quilt which is too good for your family to use now but good enough for a complete stranger to take to the beach in one hundred years time.Something that I…

Sewing Day with Mum

Over the last decade or so, since the children were born, time spent with my Mum seems to have become hurried and harried. We grab rushed moments, make frantic childcare arrangements, we are both very busy. We decided to put some time aside and hang out together, yesterday we got…

Little Houses

I entered this doll's quilt which I called 'Little Houses' in to Quilts UK in 1995. It was the first big quilt show I ever attended and I remember travelling up to Malvern in a coach and being overawed with the shear vastness of the display and the quality of…

Holly Hobbie

My friend Pam from Seven Sisters Quilt Group gave me some adorable Holly Hobbie fabric. She gave me stacks of fantastic fabric when she had a giant clearout recently. I think it might be from the 1970s, along with my Sweet April and Tiny Tears dolls I had a Holly…

Pink Princess Cupcakes

Today it's Judith's birthday at work and I have made her some pretty pink princess cupcakes. I have left them on her desk so she will have a nice surprise when she pops in later. I hope she's not going to spend too long at work on her birthday!

Mariner’s Compass Quilt

Another blast from the past, I remember quilting this one when one of my sons was a baby. So at least ten years old. I made the centre mariner's compass block at a workshop I took part in at Seven Sisters Quilt Group. Then I just kept adding borders on…

Cupcakes!

Today I'm all about the baking. It's one of our receptionist's birthday at work and I made her pineapple and coconut cupcakes from the 'Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook'. We had a little taste test at home and the verdict is in........Scrumptious!Talking of baking, look what I found at the supermarket. Cute…

Melanie Makes Meringues