If you read yesterday’s post, you’ll know that I’d been having a bit of a struggle with my latest doll project.

Although today’s intentions were good, and I fully intended to get on with it again,  I ended up spending too long over cups of tea and endless pairs of boys’ socks and pants (oh, the joys of washday!) which further sapped my momentum.

And I somehow couldn’t bring myself to follow that up with doll-making.

So I decided to give myself a short break and make something entirely different.

Sort of a bit of sewing “palate cleansing” – a between-courses sewing sorbet, if you like. After all, a change is as good as a rest.
I’d been thinking of making something small and house-shaped for a while. I just wasn’t sure what.

But when I spotted LED tealights on Ikea’s website, I decided to have a go at making a sort of little house-lantern to pop over the top of one.

No danger of setting the house on fire with LED lights!

I made a template from interfacing and ironed it on to fabric, cut it out and attempted to piece it together.

I’m filing this one under “prototype” as it definitely still needs work. I think next time I’ll go for adding proper seam allowances instead of zigzagging it together.

And the decoration needs to go on before I sew it together, rather than after, I was just too impatient to see it finished.

But it has potential I think.

If nothing else, it has cleared my tubes and revved me up for some proper sewing again tomorrow.

Now that my house is in order. ♥