A few weeks ago I wrote a post about making fabric flowers with a Clover flower maker. In the post I said that I was intending to use the flowers to make a cushion. I'd made 3 flowers at that point, and I was planning on making a standard sized cushion cover entirely out of flowers. 6 weeks on and the flower count still stands at 3! It's not that I didn't enjoy making the flowers, or that it was difficult or complicated. But after I'd ... Read the Post...
Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine: Troubleshooting
if you've missed the previous posts in this mini series, Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine, you can find them here. In this mini series, Making Friends With Your Sewing Machine, we've covered what all the different bits of the sewing machine are, including some of the feet, how to set up your machine and how to actually sew with it. This post is all about troubleshooting. However long you've been sewing for, at some point your ... Read the Post...
Taking Craft Bits on Holiday
I started writing this post about a week before we left to go on holiday, in the hope that it would help me to make a decision about taking craft bits on holiday. It did, but I didn't finish the post! I'm now back from the holiday, and if you want to know what I took with me and whether I brought the right things, I'm sorry but I'm going to make you read to the end! When I was a teenager, the thing I disliked about going on holiday was leaving ... Read the Post...
Creativity and Using What You Know
Where Does Creativity Come From? There's an idea that creativity comes out of nowhere. Or maybe not nowhere, but certainly from somewhere outside of everything else. It's the idea that, to be truly creative, you have to have lots of ideas that just or drop from heavens into your brain like manna in wilderness. Sometimes that happens. But most of the time, it's not like that at all. People are often amazed when I tell them that ... Read the Post...
