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  • A Warm Winter Dress: Drafting the Pattern

    A Warm Winter Dress: Drafting the Pattern

    January 31, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    One of the negative things about winter is the clothes. In summer, we wear pretty colours, pastels, bright colours and prints. In winter, everything is drab. Sometimes we might be able to find something brighter for Christmas, but party dresses are not known for being warm. Much as…

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  • Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: How to Use a Zip Foot

    Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: How to Use a Zip Foot

    January 15, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Hopefully by now you have a good understanding of how your sewing machine works and how to use it. Now we’re going to move on to using some of the different feet that your sewing machine might have come with. If your sewing machine only has one foot,…

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  • DIY Felt Bauble Decorations

    DIY Felt Bauble Decorations

    December 3, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    These felt bauble decorations are easy to make and are a great way to use up smaller pieces of felt and scraps of ribbon. Use the instructions below to make the one in the picture, or be creative and use what you have already to make something that’s…

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    DIY Tote Bag With Webbing Straps

    November 7, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A DIY tote bag is always useful, and over the years I’ve made a lot! It’s often handy to have a spare bag, and even if you don’t need one for shopping, you can use them for storing things in. I have a tote bag with wrapping paper…

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  • Reasons Why You Should Buy a Second Hand Sewing Machine

    Reasons Why You Should Buy a Second Hand Sewing Machine

    October 21, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    This is a guest post from Singer Outlet, who sell not only sewing machines but a whole range of sewing related things. Hobbies can be expensive, and sewing is no exception! But, here’s the good news; you can get a great value, high-quality sewing machine second-hand. Buying all…

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    Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: Sewing Machine Feet

    October 15, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    The other posts in this mini series can be found here. In the previous posts, we’ve been through what all the bits of the sewing machine are, how to set your machine up ready for sewing and how to actually sew with it. In this post, we’re going…

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Autumn is painting this tree red πŸπŸ’– What co Autumn is painting this tree red πŸπŸ’–

What colours are you noticing at the moment?

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#wildblossomlife #october #autumncolours #slowdownandlook
Some creative invitations for autumn πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚ Some creative invitations for autumn πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚

In case you have no idea what I am talking about, creative invitations are little prompts designed to encourage joyful, creative exploration without pressure or expectation. There is no right or wrong way and no obligation to produce anything finished or perfect πŸ’–

Here are some for autumn:

🍁 Make leaf rubbings. It's not just for children! Experiment with chalk and crayon, and different colours, single leaves and overlapping.

🍁 Collect autumn colours. You might like to match them with thread, fabric, paint or pencils.

🍁 Make a little abstract picture in autumn colours using your favourite stitches. I like French knots! πŸͺ‘ What about you?

🍁 Take a moment when outside. What can you see, hear and smell?

If you are wondering about the photos, they are of the Peter Scott walk that follows the shore of the wash from Sutton Bridge round to Kings Lynn πŸ’–

#wildblossomlife #creativelife #creativeinvitations #autumn #inspiredbynature
I'm knitting socks again so it must be autumn! I I'm knitting socks again so it must be autumn! 

I find there are particular things I like to do depending on the season. Knitting socks is lovely, but I don't want to knit in the summer. I prefer the more woolly crafts when it's colder. In the summer I prefer sewing and embroidery. Sometimes I break my own rules, because why not?!

Do you have seasonal preferences when it comes to the things you like to make? Let me know in the comments πŸ’–πŸπŸ‚πŸ§ΆπŸ§΅

#wildblossomlife #creativelife #knittingsocks #autumncrafts #slowingdownabit
Early autumn has its own colours, before October a Early autumn has its own colours, before October and November being deeper browns, oranges and reds. 

At the moment, there is still quite a lot of green, even though it's muted, mixed with brown and yellow of leaves starting to turn and the berries in the hedgerows.

Apples are one of those things that really say September. I was admiring the apples on my neighbour's tree, not just because they looked delicious but also because the colours were so pretty.

What I thought was red was actually pink, which faded beautifully into yellow and green.

So I made a colour scheme for September, based on the colours of those apples. I have a version that includes hex codes for digital projects, and you can download it for free from my website. The link is in my bio πŸŽπŸπŸ’–

#apples #septembercolourscheme #applescolourpalette #creativelife #findinginspirationinnature #wildblossomlife
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