Buggy Re-fashion

If you're a mum of young children, chances are you have one of these, the ubiquitous dolly buggy....chances are it's also looking a bit tired and saggy now or maybe they've got fed up of it and it's gathering dust? 

Well I've been told the answer!

FROM THIS - TO THIS

It is the fabulous idea of Original Stitch, a new buggy seat to jazz up your toy buggy, they're all handmade and made from re-purposed fabric, they're also reversible and only £12

I was lucky enough to win one of these lovelies in a competition, which I found on The Sewing Directory, as I follow them on Twitter

The all important verdict from my four year old? Absolute joy! Her little face when she opened the parcel was fabulous, she was so excited! She's such a girly girl that she's never understood why we have a blue buggy and not a pink one (long story, I don't like pink and wouldn't buy pink stuff for my eldest!) so she eagerly ripped off the blue seat and spent the rest of the day alternating between reversible sides and getting ALL her toys to have a go in it!

Many thanks to Fiona at The Sewing Directory and Catherine at Original Stitch.

Roll on Saturday!

Quick reminder that Saturday brings the spring Vintage & Handmade Fair!

I shall be toodling down to Gloucestershire to see what pretties need to come home with me!

I've also had a lovely surprise this week as I am a competition winner!

The Sewing Directory ran a competition with Original Stitch to help them decide which of Original Stitch's projects to release as a pattern next.  I chose their buggy seat, which is a great idea for changing/re-vamping the seat on your child's dolly buggy, the lovely thing about them is that they make their items out of vintage and recycled fabric.  So I was lucky enough to be the winner and as my prize I get to have a handmade buggy seat and a copy of the pattern when released! This is absolutely fantastic as the one we have at the moment is very old and hanging off & is in blue colours which my youngest doesn't approve of as she's adamantly a pink girly girl at the moment!

   I shall of course post photos when it's received.  I found the competition via Twitter where you can follow both of these fab sites & people: @sewingdirectory & @OriginalStitch.