Today is Friday before a long holiday weekend with Monday Bank Holiday so no excuse for not getting my creative thinking cap on for some new designs. I really fancy designing some new bonnets and dresses but I am also busy doing some miniature knitting which will post when I have finished. In the meantime some more of my recent makes

I love this hat I think it is such pretty colours

and this is its matching bag.

 I would like a real hat like this and somewhere nice to go in it.
Love the bag too!

Hope you like the hats on this post I will be back soon and a happy weekend to everyone.

Today I finished the patchwork Mad Hatters hat. I ironed bondaweb onto different pieces of silk then cut them up into small pieces and them arranged then on some backing fabric. When this was all bonded together I cut out my pattern and then made up the hat. I think it looks as if it is reals patchwork and I am very pleased with it. Again this was my daughters idea to make this so thanks again sweetheart.

It has been ages since I posted anything on here. Life has been up and down but my world of miniatures goes on and keeps me sane!!
Here are some of my newer makes hope you like them.

This is a pretty miniature dress I have made with lots of beautiful soft butter coloured net and pretty delicate ivory lace. I love it .

Someone asked me if I had ever made a Mad Hatters hat.
I decided with the black one that although I like it as it was it was lacking something so I painted a design on the black silk in gold and I do think that it lifts it a little. Also if you look at the Mad Hatters hat in the Johnny Depp film the hat he wears has a very feint design on it which was my inspiration. 

This one I thought that I would make in pink, well in reality my daughter suggested it, thanks hon, so here it is.

These are a few of my 1/12 scale new creations the ones with the pleated brim remind me somewhat of a cottage garden. Don't ask me why!

I love this dress the colours are so pretty and it turned out just as I wanted it to which is not always the case, also it is very difficult sometimes to get fabric that the design is just the right scale and this was perfect.

The black dress is so pretty in real life but I don't think the photo does it decent justice and again, as with the Mad Hatters hat I painted the black silk for the bodice to make it a little more interesting.

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Hangs so nicely too as though it really has some weight in it just like a real dress would.