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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 6: Sewing Shoulder Seams and Side Seams

    May 19, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 6: Sewing Shoulder Seams and Side Seams Welcome to stage 6 of the Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong! By the end of today, you’ll have something that actually looks like a dress that you might be able to wear! At this stage, it’s vitally…

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  • Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 5: Sewing the Skirt Front and Back and Attaching Them to the Bodice

    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 5: Sewing the Skirt Front and Back and Attaching Them to the Bodice

    May 16, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 5: Sewing the Skirt Front and Back and Attaching Them to the Bodice Today we’re going to be making the skirt front and back and attaching these to the bodice sections. Before You Start You’ll need: Dress pieces you’ve cut out Pins Scissors…

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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 4: Sewing the Darts in the Bodice

    May 11, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 4: Sewing the Darts in the Bodice This step’s a nice quick one! Today we’re going to be adding darts to the bodice. There are 4 darts in total, 2 at the sides and 2 at the bottom. If you haven’t sewn darts…

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  • Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 3: Working Out the Skirt Measurements and Cutting Out

    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 3: Working Out the Skirt Measurements and Cutting Out

    May 8, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 3: Working Out the Skirt Measurements and Cutting Out Welcome to the 3rd installment of the Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong! Hopefully you’ve managed to get your bodice pieces drafted and cut out. Today we’ll be cutting out the skirt. The skirt of the…

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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 2: Drafting the Bodice and Cutting Out

    May 4, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 2: Drafting the Bodice and Cutting Out Welcome to the 2nd stage of the Cherry Blossom Dress sewalong! Today we’re going to be drafting the pattern pieces for the bodice and cutting it out. The bodice for the Cherry Blossom Dress is made…

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  • Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong taking measurements

    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 1: Taking Measurements

    May 1, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Cherry Blossom Dress Sewalong Stage 1: Taking Measurements Welcome to Tea and a Sewing Machine’s first ever sewalong! I’m very excited about this and I hope you enjoy making the Cherry Blossom Dress. Before You Start You did sign up for the emails didn’t you? If you did,…

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Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child? T Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child?

The theme in April's Wild Blossom Companion is reflections. Sometimes our hands want to do something creative but we don't know what, and the Wild Blossom Companion has ideas of things to do within a theme.

I started off combining butterfly paintings with landscapes, and as I often find with anything literal I felt a bit anxious about whether what I was doing was any good. But that's kind of not the point! It's supposed to be playful exploration, not something that makes stress and anxiety worse! Plus the acrylic paint stuck on one of them and the paper tore.

So I gave that up and just blobbed paint onto the paper instead.

I think they look more like bunches of flowers then butterflies πŸ’what do you think?

And yes, I somehow managed to forget that phone needed to be the other way round! 🀦🀷πŸ€ͺ

#creativelife #painting #printing #spring #flowers
Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’– April is a pink mont Colour schemes for April πŸŒΈπŸŒ±πŸ’–

April is a pink month, with  cherry and apple  blossom. There are also lots of new leaves, and spring sunlight makes them appear even greener 🌱

#wildblossomlife #colourschemes #colourpalettes #springcolours #blossom
I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from I was inspired by a recent email post thingy from Alison from @brocantehome, in which she says that if there is ever any doubt, to look at our hands, see what is in them and tend to that. 

There is a lot in the world that is bad. Sometimes there are things closer that are not that great either. We're encouraged to be inspired by people who do huge things, fly to the moon and whatnot, but there is a lot to be said for holding onto the knowledge that our grandmothers and great grandmothers lived through difficult times, in the middle of them, and still looked after their families, cooked meals and washed up, grew tomatoes, made doctors' appointments, wrote in their diaries, drew, painted, knitted. Admired the flowers in their neighbour's garden. Marvelled at the blossom, or the autumn leaves. Hoped it would rain, or stop raining. At the same time as worrying about loved ones far away. Not because one mattered more than the other, but because they both did.

In my hands today, home education for my dyslexic boy, cats, meals, laundry and washing up. Peculiar things to make out of pieces of old shoe for my textiles degree. And blossom, lots of it 🌸🌸🌸

What is in your hands?

#wildblossomlife #spring #blossom #tendwhatmatters #gentlerhythms
Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞 They are ever Out looking for signs of spring 🌱🌸🌞

They are everywhere now. The hedgerows are coming green. There is lots of blossom. New buds are appearing on the trees and starting to open. The sun was warm today and the birds were singing πŸ’–πŸ¦β€β¬›

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #norfolk #spring #noticing
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