Fabric Fabric Fabric.....

Just had a quick tidy up of all the bits of fabric in my little work space and  have tried to balance things as best I can on the shelf.  
I was surprised with how little pink there is now compared to everything else.  I used to buy loads of pink and I'm still very tempted when I see it....but who am I buying it for - I don't have any girls and my niece has grown out of the pink stage!


I'm finding it really difficult to get nice fabrics for boys, most of it has robots, dinosaurs or vehicles, which I'm not that keen on, whereas the girly prints are full of beautiful flowers and butterflies.  

So as a result I seem to have been buying plain coloured rainbow brights and trying to get creative with them instead.  I bought some a while back with the intention of making a quilt.  

I haven't actually started it yet so that could be the next project.  




Here's one I made for my nephew last Christmas.  The quality of the pic isn't that great but you get the idea.  
I think it'll be roughly the same but white instead of blue.

Fabric Numbers

I made these for my little one's room to hang like bunting and just to look pretty but they will also serve a useful purpose as he grows up. 

Ordering Numbers

For now they just decorate his room and familiarise him with number shapes but in time to come they can be used for a whole load of number games including ordering, find the missing number, identifying odd/even numbers and using the numerals together to make new numbers.  

There are endless other possibilities that they can be used for but I'll come back to that when the time comes!

Find the Missing Numbers

Odd Numbers

Even Numbers

Combine Numerals to Make New Numbers

If you want to have a go this is what I did....

I cut out paper templates and simply drew around them with a pencil onto different coloured squares of cotton fabric (the wrong way round so you don't see the pencil marks).  The reason for the squares is that it's far easier to sew around the number shape and then cut it out.  I sandwiched some wadding in the middle to make the numbers a bit firmer.  After I stitched them I cut them out with pinking shears.  That's it!  
You can use the same idea to make letters and names too.