beginning craft.............

Over the weekend I had a neighbour over to visit we were talking about a outfit I though I had and went in search of it.............hmmmmmmm not luck finding the outfit and I knew where it should have been so I must have thrown it out but what I did find was some old craft I have not seen for years .................forgive the quality but I think most of it was done in primary school................

Mr Rabbit is currently sleeping with fairy girl.............I think it was a project to pass a badge in Brownies or Guides............

Not sure where I made this foul orange bag but look at the blanket stitch..........pretty wild but I was just young............lol..........by the time you get to the next letter you can't see it is almost reverse blanket stitch.........lol......

Mushroom wall hanging............

such neat even stitches...................NOT.........lol

Even had a go at Hobby Text (is that what it was called) I know my mum had it but this was done in Guides..............I was in the Rosellas group...............we also had Lyrebirds........

Loved Smurfs at the time............also think we traced these pics as I am not a good drawer..........

These yellow ones were completed in Yr 3 or 4 at school so i was 9 or 10 years old......this yellow material must have been cheap..............hand stitching

My first needlekeeper completely hand sewn...............thankgoodness my sewing skills have improved since then...........I think I choose the red and purple as our stitches had to "show up" and we had to decorate it with stitches........

machine stitching here............same yellow see what I mean we did have a lot of it............

the cover of my needle work sampler.........

various hand stitches.............

and a few more fancy ones.............

finally I remember doing this with the Nun's..............this Nun was particularly strict ..........we pulled the threads out first and then stitched through........such neat knots on the back...........I was definitely in Yr 3 or 4 so i am very proud of the neatness of my stitching.............

Until I got all this together I didn't realise how much childhood sewing I had kept.........I am also very pleased that I did keep this.........could have been thrown out on a whin like the dress I was looking for......I wished I had the opportunity to do more and I have very happy memories from all these projects...............

.....makes me so pleased i am sewing with fairy girl and bookworm (ds)............hopefully they will have fond memories like me in years to come..........

Do you still have some sewing craft from your childhood????? Or am I the only collector which I seriously doubt............