What To Do When You’ve Lost Your Creativity When you are a creative person, feeling that you’ve lost your creativity is horrible. When that well of ideas that so often seems to be bubbling over dries up. When you have nothing. Not a single idea. If this is…
How Do You Make a Roman Blind? The joke answer is to poke him in the eye. Please be assured that no Romans were harmed in the making of this Roman blind. The bathroom was redecorated at Christmas and we’ve kitted the boys out with new wardrobes to…
How to Make Bias Binding It’s easier than you might think to make bias binding! Why Use Bias Binding? Bias binding is probably my favourite way to finish a raw edge. It is the easiest way to finish the hem of a circle skirt. You could faff about…
Inspirational Quotes For Crafters We can all use some inspirational quotes for crafters sometimes. It would be lovely to pretend that we live in some kind of Pinterest parallel universe where everything is perfect. Where nothing goes wrong, we always have plenty of ideas and we never look at…
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…
Comet Star Quilt Block I love quilt blocks but I’ve never made a quilt. Usually I stick to quicker projects because I have a tendency to not finish things if they take too long. I currently have three unfinished crocheted blankets for this reason! Quilt blocks don’t have…