A New Year’s Embroidery Project Who’s up for a little bit of a New Year’s embroidery project? I’m in the process of writing several posts on the theme of handlettering for embroidery, and it occurred to me that it might be fun to have a project that we…
Book Review: Making a Life By Melanie Falik I was sent a copy of this book to review. All the opinions expressed are my own. About the Book One of the things I love as much as making things is reading, so when I was offered a copy…
Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour Welcome to the Easy Christmas Decorations To Sew in Under an Hour blog hop! It’s a lovely idea to make things for Christmas, but it can be difficult to find the time when everything’s so busy. I used to…
Embroidery Hoop Christmas Decoration It’s fun to make things for Christmas, but it can be difficult to find the time, especially when it’s such a busy time of year anyway. I actually gave up trying to make a lot of things for Christmas a few years ago. I…
Tips For Using Digital Sewing Patterns Often when I make clothes for myself using sewing patterns, it doesn’t go so well. Even this coat that I made a few years ago had some issues, although I considered it a success and I wore it for a number of…
DIY Autumn Wreath One of the things I really like is coming home and seeing a wreath on my door. To be honest, there’s not an awful lot of other things to like about the outside of my house at the moment. But if nothing else, at least…