Baby Quilts

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Trixie Lixie

I think a quilt makes a really great gift for a new-born baby and I have made quite a few for various niece’s and nephews. The latest one is for a beautiful baby girl who was born last week, Grace Addison, what lovely names for my newest niece!

The quilt I have made for Grace is quite large so that it fits her cot, the colours are to match the decor in her bedroom. The fabric I used is from the Gutermann Ring a Roses, French Cottage range.

I used quite large squares of fabric (25cm x 25cm) and I used a walking foot on my sewing machine to stitch in the ditch. We have got some fabulous new wadding in the shop, its beautifully soft and not too thick, I used some of our Klona plain fabric for the back and a very pretty spotty bias binding for the edges.

I started finishing the binding using pins but they kept pricking me! So I treated myself to a pack of Quilters Holding clips and they are great!

Here is the beautiful baby Grace in her first modeling role for Trixie Lixie!

What’s everyone else making for Valentines day?

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Trixie Lixie

I’ve been trying to decide what I might like to make for Valentines this year

It’s a tradition, of sorts, to make something, so I decided to have a look around. It’s pretty straight forward, these days, to find inspiration on places like Pinterest and Instagram. So I started pinning some of my favourites.

Come and have a look at trixielixiepins/valentines

And please, any suggestions would be fabulous!

Christmas Gifts for the Creative Soul from ♥ TrixieLixie ♥

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Trixie Lixie

We have handpicked a selection of gifts for the person who loves to make and do, be it you or your loved ones.

TrixieLixie Knicker Kits

from £13.50

Moda Charm Packs

£9.95

TrixieLixie Clasp Purse Kits

from £5.50

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Fiskars Scissors

from £10.00

Small Tin of Buttons

£3.50

Liberty Fabrics

from £3.50 per quarter

Lampshade Making Kits

from £13.50

Sarah Young Tea Towel Kits

£12.00

Cat and Mouse Craft Kit

£19.99

Our Webstore is full to the brim of lovely things to buy for Christmas.

Liberty Fabric Knicker Kits

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Trixie Lixie

We couldn’t have all this new liberty fabric without making up some beautiful and delicate new Liberty Tana Lawn knicker kits.

There’s Thorpe, Tatum, Wilmillie, Kitty Grace and Clarricoates. See all our knicker kits for presents this Christmas on the website.

Sewaholic gets all sporty

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Trixie Lixie

I’m not that sporty. Think of me as that old cat, dozing on the windowsill, but my eyes were opened by the new Vancouver collection of sewing patterns from Sewaholic. It’s not that I don’t like pictures with that much lycra, it’s just that I’ve hardly ever seen sewing patterns that are just made for it. It almost made me jump up out of my comfy armchair [well not quite].

Hang on, I’ve got a sporty daughter and several sporty nieces. I haven’t got any lycra or sports net, but I do have knit fabrics and I fancy the style of the Fraser Sweatshirt.

The loose fit of the Seymour Jacket caught my eye, that might just hide my six pack and I have some wild coloured outdoor fabrics that may very well suit the bill.

Ok I know I’m not exactly Jessica Ennis, but I might just give some of these a go.

Pillow Frenzy

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Trixie Lixie

It seems that I’ve had a bit of a run on making pillowcases for my friends. I love giving them as gifts, as they are so easy to make.

With these ones I made for my sister, I’ve used Gutermann fabrics with a touch of pom pom specialness. They go brilliantly with her seaside themed front room. This Gutermann collection has lots of subtle colours which would fit well in any environment.

My friend Fran loves cowboys and loves these pillows too. They are made using the Moda Fabrics Honky-Tonk range.

Christmas is coming!

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Trixie Lixie

I can’t believe that Christmas is almost upon us already (we had our first Christmas card this morning)! So I thought I would share a few gift ideas with you that are available from www.trixielixie.co.uk. Gifts that you could make or just give as kits (or add to your own list for Santa)
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We have some gorgeous fat quarter packs in a huge range of fabrics, colour coordinated and ready for you to make into quilts etc. We also have some fab Christmas fabrics which are great for making stockings, pyjamas and decorations.

We also have a selection of jelly rolls, charm packs, sewing accessories and buttons, some of which we have put together in pretty tins and bags so that they can be given as gifts.

And we also have a great selection of sewing kits that you can use to make gifts for your friends and family, why not try making a gorgeous pair of knickers, a scarf or a purse. If you don’t have time to make up the kit yourself you can just give the kit as the gift.

I hope this will give everybody a bit of inspiration for Christmas, I love to give handmade gifts and if I can’t make them all myself I do like to buy handmade whenever I can.

Tote bags

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Trixie Lixie

April is always a busy month of birthdays for me, as I have said before, I think Tote bags make a great present. These ones have a bit more to offer than my usual book bag style, they are fully lined, with a gusset on the bottom and a very useful pocket inside.

I love the fact that I can choose from our extensive range of fabrics at www.trixielixie.co.uk

This is the new Geekly Chic range from Riley Blake, camera’s, moustaches and sneakers feature heavily.

This is the gorgeous new range by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics, its called Daydream and is beautiful, so much to choose from!

I love this next one so much that I might have to keep it for myself! Its another Riley Blake range called Vintage Happy.

And finally I had to make my Sushi mad daughter one out of this Classic Michael Miller Sushi fabric!

I always like to make my own birthday cards as well and I have a new stamp set so these are to accompany the bags:

A bag full of Dinosaurs!

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Trixie Lixie

It was my cheeky nephew’s 2nd birthday on Monday so I have made him a handy bag to keep all his dinosaurs in:

The fabric is from the Michael Miller Dinosaur range, the lining is great it just says DINOSAUR! over and over again.

An assortment of bright coloured plastic dinosaurs completes the present, if he is anything like my son he will know the names of all the dinosaurs by the time he is six!

The bag matches the shorts that I made for him last summer, but I am not sure if they will fit him this summer!

Isn’t he gorgeous!!

Valentines makes

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Trixie Lixie

We have got some great fabric, charm packs, buttons and ribbons for Valentines Makes on the website. My favorite is the Surrounded by Love Fabric panel from Moda.

One panel costs £6.75, you can make all sorts of things with it. The squares will make lovely little cushions or you could frame them, or cut them up to make cards. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them! It is my niece Isobels 9th birthday tomorrow so I decided to use 2 panels and make her a quilt. It was so quick and easy to do!

It’s not quite single bed size as I only used 2 panels, I quite like the cute size of it, I used a plain red fabric for the back and red bias binding for the edges, It only took just under a metre of fabric and wadding.