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    How to Crochet Fringed Edging

    March 4, 2016June 8, 2018 Blog
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    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,…

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    How to Make Paper Bunting

    March 1, 2016June 6, 2018 Blog
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    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…

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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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Visible mending on a pair of shoes 🧵🪡 I have the Visible mending on a pair of shoes 🧵🪡

I have the kind of feet that tend to cause holes in things quite quickly, and I only got these shoes last summer and they already had sprung holes.

We often treat things like they are disposable, and instead of mending things when they break, or spring holes, we throw them away and buy some new ones.

But we don't give much thought about what happens to them after we have put them in the bin. 

Sometimes things can be recycled, but not everything is and not everything can be. Elastane (probably what the fake laces on my shoes are made of) for example won't break down even with chemicals, so as far as we know it could be here forever.

Somas a tiny act of rebellion, I repaired my holey shoes with pretty patches and Boro style stitching.  They are not perfect but they are wearable again.

#wildblossomlife #boro #visiblemending #makedoandmend
Colour schemes for May... 1. This is actually a d Colour schemes for May...

1. This is actually a ditch between 2 fields. It's often manky and full of litter, but the other day it looked quite nice.

2. May is a very green month, so there needed to be one mainly green colour scheme!

3. I said before that the person who said, "Blue and green should not be seen unless there's something in between" must never have looked up and seen green leaves against a blue sky. When I pixelated the photo some purple appeared, which I thought was rather nice.

4. Hawthorn flowers are usually white, but I've noticed a variety that have tinges of pink.

#wildblossomlife #May #colourschemes #natureinspired #spring
It always amazes me how much one tiny patch of woo It always amazes me how much one tiny patch of woodland can change from one week to the next.

At the moment it is very green. The hawthorn is flowering, although it's now past its best, but it still smells gorgeous. The rowans are flowering too, and where the flowers are almost over, there are tiny little green berries already. Some of the leaves still have their springtime hints of gold or pink.

There are lots of birds, and I can hear little creatures rummaging around in the undergrowth, although they are hard to spot. There is traffic noise too (it's hard to escape it completely), but I can choose to acknowledge it and focus on the birds instead.

I love the woods, and because of this I am working on a new guide. I've called it Things to Make and Do in the Woods in Summer: A Guide for Creative People. It's a bit like The Wild Blossom Companion, but it includes some forest bathing style things as well as some creative invitations to do in the woods and later when you get home.

I will share more about it when it is ready (it almost is). In the meantime, there is a free version of the Wild Blossom Companion if you fancy taking a look. The link is in my bio 🌿🌱🌸

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#woods #springtime #creativelife #slowingdownabit
Remember making butterfly pictures as a child? The Remember making butterfly pictures as a child? The ones I made the other week looked like flowers.

So I made them look more like flowers with a pen!

There's really no right or wrong way. Just draw what you can see in the shapes 💖🌸

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #creativeinvitations #reflections #flowers
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