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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, hereโ€™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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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 ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒธ

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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 ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒธ

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #creativeinvitations #reflections #flowers
Whoever it was who said that blue and green should Whoever it was who said that 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 ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ’–

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After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a look back at the ones I made for March. One of the March colour schemes was actually very similar to an April one.

It probably says quite a lot about which colours I like at the moment!

And it stands to reason that at a time of year when there is a lot of blossom, colour palettes are going to be similar. I don't think I could choose between them, it would be like choosing a favourite child! But I think it is interesting that the April one is definitely warmer, reflecting how spring changes from March to April in longer days and warmer weather.

If I think to, I might look for similar colours in May too, and make another colour scheme to compare with the others ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฟ

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