Waiting for the Doctor...

I know I am not the only one just getting through the day and waiting for tonight's 50th Anniversary Doctor Who, so I will keep it brief.

Today started with sorting, flinging and tidying; I went through the contents of the girls' room, with notional assistance, and dear hubby had the pleasure of dealing with the boy stuff.

We literally filled a car with bags of rubbish and the tip is now home to a lot more paper and plastic of unspecified origin than it was before.  It took hours, but the rooms do actually look much better for it, so worth the effort.

Whilst putting away the birthday presents I remembered that I hadn't shown you the bookmarks that I made for the Birthday Four.  One is currently residing somewhere within the pages of Morrissey's happy life story, so it avoided the 'blimey it's getting dark already and we've only just had lunch' photos...

Love those Kokka Robots and Penguins.  And it's not lost on me that the bow ties must be more than a coincidence!

Tardis - part 2. Birthday Season Finale!

I was so happy when I finished this, I immediately sent a picture message to my husband and Dad, and for the first time ever showed a picture to one of my mummy-friends at the school gate - so I think you can tell I was just a little bit pleased with the result!

OK, so here are some sunny pics of dear son's new Sonic Screwdriver case...

I based it on the numerous zippy pouch tutorials that I have pinned, picking and choosing the best bits to make a 9"x12" finished case. 

I stitched in the ditch (well almost) along some of the seams around the Tardis to attach some thin cotton batting, giving it all a bit more 'body'.

The back fabric is the same Kona Windsor as the Tardis, with some grey pinstripe quilting, backed again with batting.

Geek alert  The 10th Doctor (David Tennant) is dear son's favourite and wears a pinstripe suit - when I quilted the man quilt, his first comment was 'oh it looks like the 10th Doctor's suit', so what else could I do!?

I only had a 7" zipper, so I extended the end tabs to match the size of case I wanted, and it all adds to the 'bigger on the inside' illusion!  The lining is Kona Orange. 

I added the tag on the side, because where else will he keep the key to the Tardis?

Fez's are cool, but will no longer be needed for storage!

The Birthday Boy will get this and too much more in the morning xxx

Tardis - part 1

I did it!!

Kids packed off to bed before 7pm, and Tardis-making time for me!

I found a great picture here and used this as my 'pattern'.  I had grand ideas of paper-piecing it, but I got all confused at the first seam, so just cut the fabric to size and made it up as I went along.

I printed onto some white Klona, and I think dear son is going to be pretty impressed!

Apologies for the dreadful photos - I will take more tomorrow for part 2, the finished item - no leeway here, it's his birthday on Thursday!

I was originally planning a 'crayon-roll' type affair, however the number, size and multitude of removable sonic screwdriver bits and pieces was making this a little tricky to plan out, so I am going for a huge zippy-pouch, about 9" x 12", and hoping it'll be bigger on the inside ;)

Further apologies to all non-geeks, this probably made no sense whatsoever xxx

Who's in the house...

Apart from not seeing the sun, working too hard, shopping, ferrying and feeding children, receiving a lovely Brit Bee block - thank you Judith D, getting the last of the bloody Beaver badges sewn on straight - thank you Lynz for keeping me going, and also managing to get a quarter of the way round the binding of the Man Quilt, today my mind has been jumping ahead to next week's other birthday.

I have been measuring sonic screwdrivers in advance of this project!

So with this in mind, here are a selection of pins, which you may, or may not find amusing! I didn't pin any of the knits or crochet, because 'I can't', but if you can, there's a whole Doctor Who Crafts flickr group full of it all!

Source: flickr.com via Hadley on Pinterest

Source: spoonflower.com via Hadley on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Hadley on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Hadley on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Hadley on Pinterest

I am hoping for a tardis-crayon roll type hybrid with an extra pocket for all the interchangeable bits, (they probably have a proper name - but dear son is asleep!), so wish me luck in narrowing this all down, as I am going to need a quick make at the beginning of next week!