A Pattern Weights Tutorial Whenever I make clothes for myself, whether I use a commercial pattern or a pattern that I made myself, it's the cutting out stage that always takes longest. Since I started using a rotary cutter, the process has got quicker than when I was using scissors, but it still takes a while. This is where pattern weights can be very useful! Pattern weights remove the need for pins. You simply lay the pattern pieces over the ... Read the Post...
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Gathering Green: A Gentle Creative Invitation
I've said before about autumn being one of my 4 favourite seasons, and I could say the same about this time of year. When late spring starts to gently roll round to summer, it is beautiful. Not yet high summer, with its heat and parched lawns, but still early, when the leaves are still new, flowers are beginning to bloom, and the novelty of long days and warmer weather, and wearing our summer clothes again (even if it is with leggings and a ... Read the Post...
Postcards From the Norfolk Fens
Creativity can take all kinds of different forms. Some of it requires accuracy, precision and focus, with neat and tidy end results. Sometimes it takes on a more bonkers form, with weirdness, experimentation and unpredictability, and that is probably my favourite kind! If you've been here before, you might know that I am doing a textiles degree with the Open College of the Arts. I'm now about a third of the way through it (progress is slow!), ... Read the Post...
Things to Do in January
Having read the title, you might be wondering what on earth I'm doing talking about things to do in January, considering what I have said in the past about New Year's resolutions. Please be reassured that I haven't changed my mind! I still think that they are mostly an unpleasant way for us to take on more than we can handle, then beat ourselves up when we don't manage to stick to them for more than a few weeks, or a few days, or not at ... Read the Post...
