Free Halloween PDF pattern

Quick get over to lazymay.com to grab this cute (but still a bit spooky!!)  free Halloween PDF pattern

Spooky Halloween pattern

Competition winner

The lucky winner of 5 patterns of their choice is Diana. Thanks to all of you who left a comment, there were some wonderful suggestions and ideas, it is great to hear what you all like stitching.

A great read: ‘Yeah, I made it myself!’

My  friend recommended this book to me and I have just got it out from my library. I don’t know about you guys, butI don’t have a huge ammount of patience when it come to making things, my ideal project is one I can start and finish in the same day (or evening ideally!) so ‘Yeah, I made it myself’ by Eithne Farry is just perfect for me.

It is full of clothes to make that are really cool but also simple and quick, I particularly like the pattern for the dress you make and then customise by drawing on with biro, genius!!!

It is not a new book but I would really recommend it. Find it here on Amazon.

Lazy May pattern give away

Maybe I could win a prize for the worlds poorest blogger, things have been pretty busy over a lazymay.com not leaving much spare time.

Not that I am complaining…

I have some fab new packaging for Lazy May customers it is super cute and contains a basic embroidery and stitch guide. To celebrate I am going to give some away.

New Lazy May packaging

Simply leave a comment to this post about your favourite theme for embroidery patterns (be it flowers, pirates, shoes or something else) before the 7.00am GMT 16th of July and you could win 5 Lazy May iron-on patterns of your choice, visit www.lazymay.com to check them out.

The winner will be picked by random number generation on the 16th of July.

Good luck Lisa x

*New* fairy patterns and fairy bread

The is a cute new pattern over on www.lazymay.com, its called Magic fairy land and is full of magical fairy stuff, I have stitched these little softies from it

Made from Lazy May pattern 'Magic fairy land'

So to celebrate the launch of a new pattern a thought I would share this ‘recipe’ with you (I use the word recipe in its loosest possible form!). I cannot take the credit for the ‘recipe’ as it is from a Neighbours (Australian TV series that used to be very popular in England) annual I had as a girl in the 1980s! This fairy bread was the favourite breakfast of one of the characters Charlene (aka Kylie Minogue), and apparently what fairies eat all the time…

You will need

1 slice of bread, butter, some ‘hundreds and thousands’ and a star cutter

First butter the bread then cut a star shape out of it. Fill a plate with ‘hundreds and thousands’ and dip the bread in butter side down, shake off any excess and eat!

It will look like this

Umm tasty fairy bread

I shoud tell you that nothing about this recipe is good for you, enjoy!!

Sew Hip, sooo excited

Lazy May has been featured in the fab UK magazine Sew Hip there is a great write up of my patterns, and even a photo of me on my sofa! I am so chuffed with it!

Sew Hip is the magazine that cool crafters in Britain have been waiting for, each issue is packed with easy to make, great looking projects! They have a new flickr group where readers can post pictures of things made using the magazines amazing patterns, check it out!

Lazy May in Sew Hip

Budgie in progress

Whilst browsing on flickr I came across this fab WIP of the March ‘Budgie love’ free pattern by O que me mima…. It looks great in red. I just love to see what other people are making with Lazy May patterns!

Check the rest of her flickr photos here

Something special for blog readers

To celebrate the new Lazy May blog there is a little treat for blog readers, when you are buying your Lazy May iron-on transfer patterns simply enter the words ‘Lazy blog’ in the ‘Instructions to merchant’ field and I will throw in a little something extra, it might be some floss, beads, fabric or some iron on stabiliser. This will run until the end of April, so get your orders in now!

Oooo a new blog…

Welcome to the Lazy May blog, my first step into the world of blogging and the place I plan to keep you up to date with all things Lazy May,  for example what new patterns are in the pipe line. I will also share some great stuff from the flickr group and be running some fun give aways and other competitions.

So to start off the first ever post I am going to show you a sneaky peak of the next Lazy May pattern, perhaps you can guess what this one is?  I am a proper english lass and the pattern set will be based on funky, mod  style English stuff,

New pattern from Lazy May, work in progess...

I am stitching this on a blue t-shirt, should be pretty cool for summer…