A Quick and Easy Fabric Basket Tutorial I was recently sent some fabric by the people at Stitch Craft Create. It was 8 fat quarters from the new Tilda ranges, Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane, so that I could join in the Tilda Bloghop next month. Like all…
Easy Child’s Travel Pillow Tutorial If you make long car journeys with children, you want to know that they are going to be comfortable as well as safe in the back of the car. And if they get so comfortable they fall asleep, that’s even better! The problem…
A Crocheted Slippers Tutorial A couple of weeks ago Cosmo asked me to make him some crocheted slippers. I’d made some a year or so ago for the older boys and Cosmo had found some of the ones that I’d made previously and insisted that I made him…
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…