Monday 11 June 2012

Handmade Monday - Custom orders

It's Handmade Monday again, sorry I have missed the last couple, but things have been manic in the house of Mack, not to mention the dreaded Half Term!  Little Mack is back to school today so normal service can resume.  So here's my handmade Monday post about a lovely custom order I received:


I  love nothing more than a custom order and when I received a message from a lady after a jewellery roll to carry her many pairs of hook earrings in I got thinking.............


After a long while I could not come up with a good way of storing these, so suggested she used lots of little grip seal bags for each pair of earrings and then placed them into a pocket.


I came up with this ribbon tie roll with 3 large pockets for her.


The brief was blues and lilac in a vintage feel fabric, so I cut into this gorgeous French themed linen I purchased in Australia back in December! It had been sitting on the shelf just being looked at for so long, but it was perfect.


 I now have another 3 fat quarters of it in 3 other colours and am desperate to make something else with them.  Do you have any ideas for what you might like to order?

18 comments:

  1. Great idea, love the colours. I know someone who would love some tiny item made with the pink Eifle tower bit for her birthday, 9th July, and that is your cousin in Oz.

    Hope you get some other ideas and proper orders.

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  2. They look really lovely - great idea love the colour's.

    Hope you get more ideas and orders.

    I know someone who would like something small made with the pink Eifle tower for her birthday 9th July. That is your cousin in Oz.

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  3. They look really lovely - great idea love the colour's.

    Hope you get more ideas and orders.

    I know someone who would like something small made with the pink Eifle tower for her birthday 9th July. That is your cousin in Oz.

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  4. Claire, it's gorgeous. You're right, the fabric is adorable! I'd love to see what other ideas people come up with - custom orders are fab, aren't they? x

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  5. Can I just have the fabric to look at? It's beautiful!

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  6. They're lovely! I love the little eiffel tower image

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  7. Love the materials...Isn't it funny how those extra pair of hands manages to completely throw you off balance. You gotta love kids xx :)

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  8. that is gorgeous fabric! it just goes to show that its worth picking up something lovely when you see it as you never know when it might come in handy!

    your earring holder is beautiful, i'm sure the lady who has commissioned it will be thrilled! x

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  9. I love that material and agree with you that it is prefect for the brief. Lovely. :)

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  10. That's very pretty. Your customer is going to really like it.

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  11. That's very pretty. Your customer is going to really like it.

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  12. Love the blue and purple colours and a very useful item.

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  13. These are gorgeous and love the choice of fabric!

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  14. Your jewellery roll is great - I love the mix of fabrics you used. I bet your customer was really pleased with the result! Have a great week x

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  15. The jewellery roll looks very pretty. I'm terrible at coming up with new ideas. Maybe you'll get more orders for jewllery rolls to use the fabric on when people see this blog post.

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  16. What gorgeous material and the colours are lovely. I bet your customer was very pleased. Hope you have a good week. I do like the

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  17. That fabric is gorgeous. Look forward to seeing what else you make with it

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  18. Lovely jewellry roll and such pretty fabric. I love buying fabric and then don't have the heart to cut it up! Jo x

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