{Quick Tutorial} Funky Flower Button Brooch

Hello lovely followers!

Lots of new items have graced the shelves at TSB HQ over the last few weeks, including these super cute and funky flower buttons.

So thought a small tutorial was due!  Here's how to make this fab flower brooch....

You will need:

Small piece of felt 

Flowers Button Bundle

Brooch Bar

Needle and Thread

1. Cut two small circles from your felt.  This will make the backing of your brooch.

2. Sew your brooch bar onto one of the circles.  Depending on how neat you've sewn it on or whether you are giving it as a gift, you may want to cover the stitches with another small circle of felt on the right side.

3.  Layer your flowers and the felt together ready to be sewn.

4. Then carefully sew together the two buttons and the felt.

5. Sew the two layers of felt together...

6. Then there you have it, one very cute and simple flower brooch!

All the products can be purchased in the shop, so why not give it a go!

p.s. new Design Team packs are going out tomorrow so some new makes from them using a new fabric will be coming soon!!

{New Products} Good Ol' Blighty!

Things are very busy around these parts at the moment, but not so busy that we haven't noticed we are fast approaching the Jubilee celebrations and the Olympics.

Are you having a street party?  Are you making decorations ready for the big events?  Maybe you're a crafter who's making lots of creative souvenirs ready to sell at your upcoming craft fairs?  Either way, take a look at what lovely stock has just arrived here at The Sewing Boutique HQ.

ATTEN-SHUN!! Soldier Ribbon

Best of British Woven Ribbon

Perfect for any patriotic project

Red white and blue felt bundle, wrapped in some Best of British Ribbon

We've a few more products along this theme coming, hopefully we'll be able to show you this week. 

What will you be making?  We'd love to see!

One Week Til Launch Day!

It never fails to amaze me how quickly time goes.  However, Im really pleased to say there is only a week to go until we launch online!  This time next week, the site will be live and hopefully, you will be swooning over all our gorgeous fabrics, ribbons and buttons and have a million creative ideas floating round your head.

There are a lot of things planned for this blog too.  Aswell as regular updates of whats going on behind the scenes at The Sewing Boutique HQ, we will be doing regular tutorials, hopefully I will be inviting a few guests to do tutorials too, we will have regular product reviews and updates so you can find out whats new in the shop and also, discount codes and giveaways when we reach a few milestones! 

One of our favourite fabric bundle named "Cream Tea"!

Also on this blog next week will be details of our Launch Day Giveaway!!  This will be huge and not to be missed!  Im putting the final touches to the prize but needless to say it will include fabric, lots of ribbon and maybe even a special code for the winner to use on the site?  Sound tempting!?  All will be revealed next week!

Will these be included in our Launch Day Giveaway??

Also, our new blog has been awarded a couple of awards lately, for which we are so grateful!  Marie at Dinki Dots and Twinkle Star at Twinkles, Tutorials & Twirls have awarded us The Leibster Blog Award.  So so kind ladies, thank you so much!  I will pass the award on in my next post.

Ribbon Love

Whenever Im in my local haberdashery, Im almost mesmerised by the amount of ribbon there is!  Its like the most beautiful rainbow, with more colours!  Our stock of ribbon is building up nicely Im pleased to say and I thought I'd share a few photos we're getting ready to put on the site.

Pink baby feet - perfect for cardmaking, sewing, anything really!

Double satin ribbon in lots of lovely colours

Spots...

...and more spots!

Gorgeous satin ribbon in loads of colours and spotty ribbon.  Who doesnt love spotty ribbon!?  Also, how gorgeous are these vintage buttons I came across the other day?

These will be going in the "Vintage Finds" section on the site along with some really lovely vintage fabric, sewing patterns, trimmings and more buttons!

Only three weeks to go!!

Yum!

Ok, maybe thats a bit of a misleading title, but its what I think when I look at all these gorgeous buttons we will soon be having on sale!

I make no secret of the fact I love buttons, so much so I want to eat them (not advised).  Maybe its because they look like sweets.  I also love anything with spots on.  So you can imagine how happy I was when this little lot turned up today!

Lovely large polka dotty buttons

Small but just as lovely polka dot buttons!

Think my youngest daughter likes them too as I've found some in her little bag this afternoon.  Like mother like daughter.

Six weeks until launch day and counting!

Hello and Welcome!

Thank you for visiting, and hopefully reading, the very first post from The Sewing Boutique.

We will be launching our online sewing supplies shop on 1st March 2012.

Currently we are busy putting together stock, taking photos and building up the web site.  All of which is time consuming, but such a lovely way to spend a day Im sure you will agree.  Who wouldnt want to be surrounded by fabrics and buttons?  Its going to be hard to part with all this lovely fabric but Im sure a few sneaky scraps may find their way into my stash!

I look forward to sharing the journey with you.  The 1st March will be here before we know it!