Awesome Street Art

Melbourne is known for it's street art. (Do a google image search and you'll get some examples.) The area I live in is one of the prime areas for some amazing street art, so today I thought I'd share with you some pics I've snapped of some of my favourite bits that I've spotted.

Finally...

I realised the other day that I had forgotten to post my big news - on the 31st of August I submitted my thesis! And, as is custom with Melbourne University, I got my balloon:

Now to wait up to 4 months to see what the examiners say.

This does however mean that I am thoroughly enjoying having nothing I should be doing when I get home from work in the evenings! Thus sewing no longer has any accompanied guilt.

Best Birthday Cake EVAR!

Slightly belated in posting these as it's been a somewhat hectic week, but I wanted to share pictures of the amazing cake that my dear friend Sally made me for my Birthday:

Yes, it was sewing themed!! She made all the decorations herself, from the icing buttons on the side,

To a little pair of scissors and a thimble,

Some spools of thread,

A tape measure,

Some folded up fabric,

And a sewing machine, threaded up,

And halfway through sewing a red quilt (notice she's even got the detail of the line of stitching behind but not in front of the needle!)

Not only did it look amazing, it tasted fantastic too!

Double decker mud cake... mmmmmmmm!

Thanks again Sally!!!

Wicked Week

I haven't done much sewing this week as my mum visited for a couple of days. Yesterday was great fun, we went to the Ian potter gallery, and for lunch in fed square. Then in the evening we went to see "Wicked"; we managed to get some FANTASTIC tickets just by going to the box office during the day. Our seats were in the 9th row from the front, smack bang in the middle.

The show was amazing, the story fantastic, and the costumes stunning! While the costumes for the main characters were amazing (and can be easily googled), I found the costumes for the chorus characters much better. Particularly the students at 'Shiz University'. They had uniforms, but each of them was slightly different, with all sorts of fantastic diagonal lines and non-symmetrical parts. I can't find any example picture online, so if anyone knows of any pictures of the non-main characters, please tell me!

Anyway, when out in the city with my mum yesterday we solved the quilt backing problem (woohoo!). My parents had kindly looked in the spotlight near them (in Perth) and found the navy I'd used before, but sadly there wasn't enough left. However my mum came up with the great suggestion that I could buy a flannelette sheet set and use the flat sheet as the quilt back, and then I'd have a matching fitted sheet and pillowcases and it wouldn't be too expensive.

So, off we trooped to Target and were pleased to discover that flannelette sheet sets were 30% off! After looking at them all for a while and ruling most of them out I finally settled on a set, picture below. It also matches one of my current sets of bed sheets really well (in colour and the leafy theme) which is fortunate. I washed them yesterday, ready for me to speed through with the sewing and hopefully get it finished very soon!


Lastly, this evening was the second burdastyle sewing club, kindly hosted by Tessuti! It was much like the last one where we spent most of the time going round the circle showing what we'd made, and asking opinions and questions and troubleshooting current and future projects. Lots of fun! The things people have been making are all so stunning! So inspiring and envy inducing!

Before I left I had the chance to buy some buttons for my pyjamas I have in the works, some thread clippers, and some white fabric with black stripes (in the bargainous $10 corner!) to make the emily blouse.