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    How to Crochet Bobble Edging

    February 26, 2016June 8, 2018 Blog
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    How to Crochet Bobble Edging is the 3rd in a little series of posts about different crocheted edgings. If you missed the others, you can find them here. Shell Edging Picot Edging Bobble edging is trickier than the others. It involves an unusual little manoeuvre where you have…

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    Crocheted Picot Edging

    February 19, 2016June 8, 2018 Blog
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    Crocheted Picot Edging is the second post in a little series of 4 posts about crocheted edgings. If you haven’t already, you might like to take a look at the first one, which shows how to crochet a shell or scalloped edging. And if you stick around for…

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    Vintage Coat Butterick B5824

    February 16, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Back in the summer I decided to make a coat. My old coat was looking very tatty and I’d had a bit of a laundry mishap after Boy 4 threw up in the car on the way to Wales. It turns out that if you put an elderly…

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    Finding a Creative Workspace

    February 12, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog
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    I was recently inspired by WeWork to write about my creative workspace. WeWork is a company based in New York that provides inspiring office spaces. They’ve recently opened some beautiful office space in London, but they’ve also got shared office space in locations all over the world! When I agreed to do this,…

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  • How to Make a Fabric Diary Cover

    February 2, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Even though I have called this post How to Make a Fabric Diary Cover, you could make one to cover a journal or to pretty up a plain notebook. I made this fabric for my Moleskine diary. The diary itself is fine, lots of space to write my lists,…

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    How to stop a dress form from falling over

    January 29, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
    16 Comments

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called How to Alter a Dress Form. I have had my dress form, Betty, for a few years and she was too big. As I couldn’t use she was clutter that I just don’t have the room for, so…

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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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