I’ve been away for a few days visiting my parents, and have come home to a veritable smorgasbord of patterns (yay for online shopping).  Here they are:

The chocolate cake will be wonderful – it’s an entire kit, and goes nicely with my chenille cupcakes!  It’s from Polka Dot Chenille (see her blog at Ric-Rac) and Jodie the lovely proprieter also sent me these fantastic vintage buttons:

Thanks so much Jodie!

Speaking of buttons, while I was away I managed to complete a couple of projects – I finally sewed a button on this bag:

and finally completed embroidering faces and adding pom-pom tails to these Wee Bunnies (pattern from the Wee Wonderfuls website).

I also added to the fabric stash:

These will become bags from the above patterns, or else yet more clothes for Miss Clare (which she doesn’t need, so maybe bags would be better) . . .

Mum had these corduroy squares in her stash (now they’re in mine!) which are all from off-cuts left from clothes she made for my brother and I when we were little (which makes them pretty old now).

My aunt found these pieces in her stash – I suspect that they’re possibly over 20 years old as well!  Word is getting around the relatives and friends that I am very happy to take old fabrics, buttons and trims off their hands.

Now to do some sewing!  But what to do first – so many options!  I must add some links to this post – but must dash off to collect Miss Clare from kinder first.