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    How To Choose The Best Fabric For Curtains

    November 19, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    The Best Types of Fabric For Curtains For Your Home This is a guest post from Yorkshire Fabric Shop. Choosing the perfect curtain fabric for your home can be overwhelming. There are endless collections to choose from and you might not know the best type of curtain fabric…

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    Adapting an A Line Skirt Pattern

    November 15, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    The other week I showed how to draft a pattern for an A line skirt. It’s here if you missed it! Although A line skirts are just fine as they are, I had plans for adapting an A line skirt pattern to make it a little bit different….

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  • Textile Self Portraits

    October 23, 2020October 16, 2021 Blog, Living a Creative Life
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    The Knitting and Stitching Show is usually held in various locations around the UK. Obviously it’s not happening this year. But as we’ve found over the last few months, we are fortunate enough to live in an age where we can do things and get together without even…

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    Pattern Drafting: How To Draft an A Line Skirt

    October 18, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    This post contains affiliate links. One of the things I love to do is make my own clothes, especially making them from my own designs. There is nothing like trotting off out in an outfit that I’ve made myself. I like knowing that nobody else will be wearing…

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  • Things to make and do in the autumn

    Things To Make And Do In The Autumn

    October 11, 2020October 9, 2023 Blog, Living a Creative Life
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    If you’ve been here before, you’ll probably know that I love autumn. I actually have a hard time choosing between the seasons! Lots of people like the summer best. It’s nice not having to wear a coat and people’s gardens smell nice and you can go to the…

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    Appliqued Tote Bag For National Sewing Month

    September 26, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Every September, All Free Sewing host National Sewing Month. This involves lots of sewing tutorials and a giveaway. This year they are giving away a Handi Quilter sewing machine. Unfortunately you have to live in the USA or Canada to enter. The information about it is here. I…

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Under the eaves of my house there are house martin Under the eaves of my house there are house martins' nests. Every year in April,  the house martins' arrive, and all through the summer I hear them chattering in their nests and see them swooping about. 

The sound of those little birds chattering is part of the summer soundscape, until one day I realise that it's quiet, and they've gone. It's usually in late August or early September, and it's a sign that autumn is on its way.

One year they didn't arrive until June and I was worried. But they still came back! 

The house martins remind me that cycles and seasons often involve both beginning again and letting go.

To mark their leaving this year, I've been embroidering a little abstract piece that feels like birds in flight. It's a way of holding onto them even as they leave, and reminding myself that they will be back in the spring. 

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I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blo I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blossom Companion. The light is more golden now and less harsh, there are fluffy seed heads and soft grasses, fluffy clouds and pets to cuddle.

September is that soft edge between summer and autumn. The colours are becoming muted, with more faded greens, ochre and dusty rose. 

We might reach for a favourite jumper in the freshness of early morning, or a blanket as the evenings draw in.

We're invited to walk softly as leaves start to fall.

What does softness mean to you, and how do you weave it into the creative bits of your life?

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#wildblossomlife #quietmoments #softtextures #slowingdownforcreatives
Even as we get older, it's very difficult to shake Even as we get older, it's very difficult to shake off the shiny shoes and new pencil case feeling that September brings. 

In some ways, it feels more like a new year than January does! But I don't think we need to rely on other people telling us whether or not it is a new year. We can start a new year whenever we like!

One way to start afresh is to take a moment, step outside and notice what is there. Signs of autumn are appearing where I live, even though it still feels like summer.

Taking a little bit of time to slow down and really see can help us to be there in the present, instead of endlessly rushing from one thing to the next and before we know it, it's Christmas again.

This is why I created the Wild Blossom Companion. It's designed to encourage you to slow down a bit and notice, and see how you might use those in things you make. There's no need to completely change your life. That's not what it is. It's also not a toilet roll long ticky list. It's a way to honour the quieter, slower rhythms of a creative life.

I have a free edition available on my website if you like the idea of it and you'd like to try it without any commitment. It's called A Gentle Beginning and the link is on my bio.

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What does late summer feel like to you? I find i What does late summer feel like to you? 

I find it a weird time of year. In some ways it feels like summer still. The weather is still warm and will hopefully be a while before we're back into winter coats again. But the light has changed, the hedgerows are full of berries, the early mornings are colder and the nights are drawing in.

It feels almost sad, but not really because autumn is lovely! 🍁🍂

I've written a post about it on Wild Blossom Life. The link is in my bio if you want to read it 💖

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