Stompy’s Simple Sewing Kits

Simple could describe the kit or the sewing of this kit.

View range of Stompy's Simple Sewing kits

Simply made up from a piece of Binca fabric (the cross stitch fabric for children) with a shape drawn on it, some wool or yarn, a needle and some little embellishments.
Or
Simply stitched, if you choose, just fill in the shape with running stitch.

A full colour instruction booklet is included, with descriptions of how to do the basic stitches. The booklet includes examples of completed kits done with running stitch or patterns of stitches. There is also a guide to help you design your stitch pattern before you begin.

The kit includes a metal tapestry needle, so it is not suitable for small children - adult supervision is recommended.
An adult is also needed to iron on a cotton patch to cover the back of the finished sewing.

The kit comes presented in a box with a shaped window and is ideal for a gift.

Stompy’s Simple Shapes

Stompy's Simple Shape Kits

 

Stompy’s Simple Shapes - are delightful little kits, perfect for stocking fillers and party bags. Small enough to pack into your bag, not messy - so brilliant for when you are away from home. The finished pieces make great embellishments that can then be used on other projects too.

 

Each kit contains:
* Enough brightly coloured paper shapes to make 5 pieces (with a few extra spares).
* A 10g glue stick
* A shape/size guide
* A full colour instruction booklet

(The BUGS in the above photo where made by my 4 1/2 year old daughter - the only help she had was sorting out the shapes into the correct bug.)

There are currently 4 kits with in the Stompy's Simple Shapes range - Bugs, Animals, Birds and Christmas Animals. See range.

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 Stompy’s Simple Shapes- Singles

The Singles - are the little sister to the Simple Shapes range. Simply packaged in a cellophane wrap, these kits are designed to fit into Stompy’s Boredom Buster Bags.
Each kit contains:
* Enough brightly coloured paper shapes to make 1 piece (with a couple of extra for spares)
* Full colour instruction sheet

Introducing Stompy’s Canvas Collage Kits

View the current range of Stompy’s Canvas Collage Kits

This kit is all you need to make a wonderful fun collage. Whether it is to give as a gift to a child or for you to make and personalise for someone special.
The collage kit contains a variety of materials from fabrics, buttons, felt and paper. Once cut, some materials are then hand finished with pens, inks or paint.
All the kits are hand produced, picked and finished and therefore no two kits are the same.

Party Parcel
We can also box up themed kits with a few added extras for that special crafty session at birthday parties.

Personalised Kits
For a small amount extra, we also offer the option to add coordinating letters to the kit so that the recipient can personalise their art work.

Each kit contains:

* 20cmx20cm (8x8 inch) canvas board - with name plate on the back
* Enough collage materials to make the collage - e.g. combinations of paper, fabric, felt, buttons, sequins, wool, netting, petals, wooden shapes, gems, ribbon, beads, or googly eyes
* 40ml pot of children’s glue
* A full colour instruction booklet
* A length of fabric tape make a loop to hang the canvas

View the current range of Stompy’s Canvas Collage Kits

 

More Fabric fun with the Silhouette SD

Again the Silhouette SD came to my rescue when making a named toy bag for my youngest daughter.

 

As with the owl wall hanging I used cheap iron on adhesive to stabilise the fabric and then cut out quite intricate and small pieces for the letters and image applique patches.

I reused lots of old fabric for this make, including some old roman blinds for the main fabric ( I had to turn it inside out to hide the horrible pattern) the patches are demin from old jeans and the lining is a mixture of fun fabric left over from making a girls dress and an old bed sheet.

It’s not the best shaped bag in the world, but it does what I intended it to do, and that is holds lots of toys (it can also carry a 20 month old, as Chloe decided that she would climb in too!)


Thanks for looking

Fabric fun with the Silhouette SD

When you don’t have much time to get things made, I love any tool that can speed jobs up.

After searching the internet on how ot use the silhouette to cut fabric, I was hoping not to have to pay out for the specialist materials that the sites were recommending. Especially as I had recently found my 18 month old daughter sitting on my silhouette cutting mat - adhesive side down - on our door mat.
So I experimented using a spray mount on the cutting mat (after scraping off the dirt) making sure that I masked off the edges.
To stabilise the fabric I used a cheap iron adhesive bought from my local haberdashery. The Silhouette cut the cotton fabric beautifully, there was just a few tiny areas that needed to be snipped with scissors.

The owls I cut were then used as aplique decoration on a wall hanging for my daughters bedroom.

I hope to post more Silhouette SD applique ideas in the next few blogs...

Thanks for looking

Launching Imagination Station UK

July has so far been a really exciting month for me at Stompys Craft. I have teamed up with a local art teacher, Sarah Martinez, and together we have set up Imagination Station UK.

Imagination Station UK is an Arts and Crafts Group, where we will aim to deliver fun, and educational arts and craft based activities for children.

We are starting off with two sessions this summer holiday for children aged 4-8 years old.

Session 1 - we will be making fantastic flying fish kites and getting the children to create their own sea creatures for a sealife mural.

Session 2 - the children will be able to create their own story book puppets and collage scenery for the puppets to act in front of.

So please check out our blog imaginationstationuk.blogspot.co.uk for more details on the activities.

Thanks for popping by

Stompy

Wendy House Decorating

Just finished the wendy house today in time to get a blog post for June!

Having some large pieces of scrap timber hanging around the garden / garage, we decided a few years back, to build a play house for our daughter at the back of the garden where no plants would grow.

Made from old fence posts, some left over perspex, decking scrounged out of a neighbours skip and some new sheets of plywood we built a little house... which never quite got finished... so plants grew in under the roof.... bringing with it all the creepy crawlies little girls don’t like.

So this June, I finally got round to sealing the roof, and painting the internal walls with gloss paint. And with two little girls, we thought it would be nice to make the interior rather girly.

Excluding the blackboard paint the whole decorating cost came in at under £10.

To make the peg row - I reused some plastic handles from the girls bedroom and attached them to a scrap piece of 2"x1" timber which was covered in some in-expensive gingham.

The blackboard was made from an old picture frame that was taking up space in the garage, the print was taken out and the frame backing painted with blackboard paint.

The bunting was made from my husbands old work shirts and some gingham I had left over. See below for my tips on making quick bunting.

I made little covers for the wooden stools from old jeans and an old duvet that had spent the last few years in the cats basket (it was well washed before I used it!!)

One heart decoration was from jeans and shirt fabric, whilst the other I made by reusing some florist wire, which was covered in a mix of wire, wool and some cheap Pony beads that were crocheted together.

The butterflies and other decorations were purchased - all for less than £8.

Now it is a really cosy and great fun to play in.

Thanks for looking
Regards Stompy