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    Productivity Hacks For Crafters

    May 13, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Productivity Hacks for Crafters Making things takes time. There are often several steps involving doing different things. It’s messy. You need to spread things out. You need to make stuff but your family need to eat off the table. You need to cut out a dress and keep…

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    Essential Sewing Kit

    May 6, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    What Essential Sewing Kit Do I Need to Start Sewing? When you are new to sewing, it can be difficult to know exactly what essential sewing kit you need. There’s so much stuff out there and some people might tell you that you need it all! But do you?…

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    Burlap Purse Tutorial

    May 3, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Burlap Purse Tutorial A couple of weeks ago I made this bag for the Minerva Crafts Bloggers’ Network. I love the fabric and it’s so pretty, I decided I needed a little burlap purse to go with it! The burlap purse is made in the same way…

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    How to Make a Burlap Fabric Bowl

    April 29, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Burlap Fabric Bowl Tutorial A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorial showing how to make a burlap picnic mat. Sometimes if you are eating outside, you need more than just a mat to eat off. You need bowls and things too! Taking enough food to feed 6 hungry…

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    How to Plan a Sewing Project

    April 26, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Plan a Sewing Project If you have read any of my other blog posts, you will probably have realised that I rarely use a pattern to make things. I prefer to come up with something myself from scratch. That way I end up with something that is…

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    Burlap Bag Tutorial

    April 22, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Pretty Burlap Bag Tutorial I love burlap at the moment. There’s something so charming about its rusticness and I love using fabric made from natural fibres. There are so many beautiful, inspiring things on Pinterest where people have used burlap along with something else to make something…

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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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