Adding Fibres to Handmade Felt I love making felt! It is easy to do, you can get pleasing results easily and it’s a lovely, tactile thing to work with. Making felt doesn’t require expensive speciallist equipment. Some wool rovings, a bamboo mat (like the table mats people had in the 80s), soap…
How to Make a Bunting Cushion As much as I love bunting, there is a limit to how much of it you can have strung up about the place. A bunting cushion is a nice, easy way of adding the same cheeriness but without tying yourself up in…
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…