The month of May usually brings some good things. It means longer days and nicer weather, and 2 bank holidays in a month! Living in the country, It's about this time that I notice that everything has been growing! The verges and hedgerows are green and full of life. For people who like to sew and make things, May also means Me Made May. If you haven't come across it before, Me Made May is an online challenge where people pledge to ... Read the Post...
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about making fabric flowers with a Clover flower maker. In the post I said that I was intending to use the flowers to make a cushion. I'd made 3 flowers at that point, and I was planning on making a standard sized cushion cover entirely out of flowers. 6 weeks on and the flower count still stands at 3! It's not that I didn't enjoy making the flowers, or that it was difficult or complicated. But after I'd ... Read the Post...
if you've missed the previous posts in this mini series, Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine, you can find them here. In this mini series, Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine, we've covered what all the different bits of the sewing machine are, including some of the feet, how to set up your machine and how to actually sew with it. This post is all about troubleshooting. However long you've been sewing for, at some point your ... Read the Post...
I started writing this post about a week before we left to go on holiday, in the hope that it would help me to make a decision about taking craft bits on holiday. It did, but I didn't finish the post! I'm now back from the holiday, and if you want to know what I took with me and whether I brought the right things, I'm sorry but I'm going to make you read to the end! When I was a teenager, the thing I disliked about going on holiday was leaving ... Read the Post...
