How to Fix a Jammed Sewing Machine It happens from time to time. You’re sewing away happily, perhaps hoping to get a project finished before your baby wakes up, or before you have to pick the kids up from school, or before midnight because you need to sleep! You…
A Spring Wreath With Bunting I’m on a mission at the moment. That mission is to make as much bunting related stuff as I can. Over the last couple of weeks I have made paper bunting and fabric bunting with the letters of the word spring appliqued to…
How to Make Spring Bunting It will probably come as no surprise if I tell you that I love bunting. I have bunting hanging up in my living room, in the kitchen and on the dresser. I did have bunting on the front of my house too, until…
The Truth About Sewing Your Own Clothes Sewing your own clothes is a lot of fun. I have been making clothes for myself since I was 10, both with using a pattern and without one. Things don’t always go perfectly to plan! In this post I am going…
How to Crochet Fringed Edging How to Crochet Fringed Edging is the last in a little series of posts I’ve been writing about pretty edgings you can crochet. Most of them are very easy. They can be used to give a pretty detail to bags, purses, hair bands,…
Paper bunting is great if you need to make some bunting but you don’t have time to sew some. All you need is some pretty paper and some bakers’ twine. The paper I used was actually a paper pack that came with a magazine back in the days…