Giveaway time!

I love running a giveaway and this one's a sweet one just to say thank you for the continued support of my work.

I'll be adding a few of these lavender houses into my upcoming market night in April ( date yet to be confirmed ) and they're so pretty, freehand machine embroidered, and rather quirky.

I'm itching to have a go at my new lampshade kits which arrived with my father from the UK last Sunday....I've been so busy this week that it took me until Wednesday evening to open the box but I can tell you that they're rather fancy, fantastic, kits and I can't wait to be able to offer them to you.  I need to get sewing to see what I can come up with, it's a very exciting start to the spring for me.

Best of luck with the giveaway and to enter please visit my Facebook page, link below.

www.facebook.com/ButtonFayre

Lucy x 

Tea cup pin cushion tutorial

This is a an easy peasy tutorial for a beautiful tea cup pin cushion and will take you around 10 minutes to complete.

You will need :

A tea cup
Needle and thread
Wadding
A small piece of fabric
Strong glue


Do you have a lovely tea cup already?  Maybe you'll need to go on the hunt for one and I love nothing more than stalking all of the local brocantes where I live.
The tea cup in the photo is a small one I found for 50 centimes.

Here goes and enjoy!

Step 1.  Draw a circle on to your piece of fabric ( accurately is preferable with a compas ).  The size   of the circle depends on the size of your tea cup and to give you an example, my tea cup circumference is 8cm and so I've chosen the circumference of my fabric circle to be 18cm.
Cut the circle out.

Step 2.  Hand sew large gaps, around 2cm apart, around the edge of the circle staying as close to the   edge as you can.  (  Make sure you leave enough thread hanging at the start as you will be pulling       both ends together to gather up your fabric in a minute ).

           You can just about make out the needle and thread positioning in the photo above, sorry for                the quality of the photo!


Step 3.  Gather the fabric gently by pulling both ends of thread together, leaving a gap for the           stuffing.
You're actually making a simple suffolk puff!

Step 4.  Place your stuffing inside, pull tightly closed and tie the ends together with a double or triple knot.

Step 5. Turn the right way up so that the underneath doesn't show and using a strong glue, place and fix into your tea cup.

Step 6.  You're done, the only thing left to do is to add your pins.


Well done and I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

Lucy x

Cushion spring offer

I'm running a super duper ***SPRING OFFER*** for cushions on Button Fayre's Facebook page which is very exciting. 
Each cushion is a fixed price of £30 for a limited period only and so if you've been looking for something unique for yourself, or as a gift, then look no further.

If you'd like to benefit from this offer then please do send me a message to discuss requirements and cat cushions are always popular but I love having a go at anything.

This offer runs until 15th April 2015 and you can get in touch with me on either of the the links below.

www.buttonfayre.com

www.facebook.com/ButtonFayre


I wrote a lovely blog post about general things happening with Button Fayre recently, yesterday, and that's on my website blog ( link above ) if you'd like to have a read.

See you soon!

Lucy x