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  • How To Make A Wrist Pincushion Revisited

    How To Make A Wrist Pincushion Revisited

    June 23, 2023June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    With the Great British Sewing Bee back on the television, I thought I’d revisit the wrist pincushion tutorial I wrote back in 2016. I still have the original pincushion, and I often use it when I’m sewing. We are who we are, and I still lose my pins…

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  • How to Sew a Fabric Headband

    How to Sew a Fabric Headband

    May 7, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives

    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…

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  • DIY Hand Warmer Heat Pack

    DIY Hand Warmer Heat Pack

    January 7, 2022June 24, 2025 Blog, Gentle Projects

    Having a DIY hand warmer heat pack in your pocket when it is cold is like a little treat. One of the reasons why I like to have a cup of tea while I’m out is so that I can warm my hands on it! Carrying a cup…

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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: What Are All the Different Bits and What Do They Do?

    April 24, 2021June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    When you buy a new sewing machine and get it out the box, one of the things you’ll probably notice straight away is that there are an awful lot of buttons, little knobs and hooky things. So the first job is to find out what they all do…

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  • Embroidered Pincushion Tutorial

    Embroidered Pincushion Tutorial

    June 27, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    It could be possible to become addicted to pincushions. Like having an collection of pretty teacups, pincushions can be as different as you want them to be and pretty as you like. There are so many different ways to make them and, because they are little things, you…

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Nettles to yarn 🌱🧶 Not a project that can be done Nettles to yarn 🌱🧶

Not a project that can be done in an afternoon! It's taken about a week just to make a tiny bit and could probably have left them for longer.

I love how nettle like the yarn is. It's quite soft and smells of plants.

#creativelife #nettles #nettleyarn #inspiredbynature #slowingdownabit
There was a huge thunderstorm and lots of rain, so There was a huge thunderstorm and lots of rain, so afterwards I went outside to sniff the garden 🌱🌺🥀

#wildblossomlife #slowingdownabit #spring #may #garden
It's ridiculously hot but at least it's cooler in It's ridiculously hot but at least it's cooler in the woods 🌳🌿

Apparently it's not just because it's shady. It's also because trees do a thing called evapotranspiration which means they release moisture into the air. So it's basically nature's air conditioning 🌿🌞💖

So if you are too hot and you are able to, find yourself a wood. Or even a clump of trees will do. 

If you like the idea of having something to do while you are there, I have written a new guide, called What to do in the Woods in Summer: A Guide for Creative People. It's quite a lot like the Wild Blossom Companion, there's a little bit to read, some forest bathing style things to do, some gentle, open ended creative things to do while you are there, and some more for when you get home if you want to stretch it out a bit more. The link is in my bio.

#creativelife #woodsinsummer #getoutside #slowdownabit #inspiredbynature
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
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