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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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Friday weirdness fix 🤪😂 Things have been a Friday weirdness fix 🤪😂

Things have been a bit quiet recently because I have been finishing off another huge unit for my textiles degree.

As I could have predicted, I got hideously behind and needed about 2 months when I only had a week!

Anyway, I managed to pull it out of the bag and got enough done and sorted out to hand in, and I only had a couple of minor meltdowns 👍

#creativelife
#textiles #textilesdegree #weaving #turquoiseandred
I went out for a walk in the snow, and I was struc I went out for a walk in the snow, and I was struck by how the winter sunlight made the trees look coppery, and how lovely the copperiness was against the blue sky. 

I do think noticing is enough. It's not always necessary to make or do something, especially if it feels more like proving that you saw it rather than wanting to.

There are some ideas cooking away in my head for things I might do, and having some ideas of colours already could be useful. So I made a colour scheme from the photo I took 🪾💙❄️

#wildblossomlife #januarycolours #wintercolourscheme #snow #noticing
I invented a thing: Welly flowers! I went for two I invented a thing: Welly flowers!

I went for two lovely walks today round my snowy village 💖❄️

I love the colours in the last photo. It's so easy to think of winter of nothing but grey and monochrome, but today was beautiful. I noticed coppery trees in the sunlight, against a pale blue sky 🪾❄️💖

#winter #wintercolours #snow #norfolkfens  wildblossomlife
Being out in nature always feels precious. It does Being out in nature always feels precious. It doesn't matter very much what time of year it is, or what the weather is doing.

Today I wanted to get outside while it was still light. Yesterday it was after 3pm and it was already gloomy!

Today is lovely and bright, even though everywhere is damp and muddy after all the rain.

#winter #December #norfolkfens #slowingdownabit #wildblossomlife
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