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    A Super Easy Pattern Weights Tutorial

    June 28, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Pattern Weights Tutorial Whenever I make clothes for myself, whether I use a commercial pattern or a pattern that I made myself, it’s the cutting out stage that always takes longest. Since I started using a rotary cutter, the process has got quicker than when I was…

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    A Wrist Pincushion Tutorial

    June 21, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Wrist Pincushion Tutorial There is an updated version of this tutorial on how to make a wrist pincushion! Also the craft kits are back on Etsy, and you can find them here. I have a confession to make. I used to put pins in my mouth. And…

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    Quilt Block Cushions Tutorial

    May 20, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Quilt Block Cushions Tutorial Although I have never made a patchwork quilt, I love quilt blocks. Having the attention span of a goldfish, I usually avoid huge projects thisย because I know there’s a good chance I won’t ever finish them! But quilt blocks don’t just have to…

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    A Budget Friendly Cushion Tutorial

    May 19, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Budget Friendly Cushion Tutorial An easy and inexpensive way to change things up a bit at home is to change the cushions. It’s possible to change the feel of a room quite a lot by swapping the cushions for ones with different colours and textures, and maybe…

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    Burlap Purse Tutorial

    May 3, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Burlap Purse Tutorial A couple of weeks ago I made this bag for the Minerva Crafts Bloggers’ Network. I love the fabric and it’s so pretty, I decided I needed a little burlap purse to go with it! The burlap purse is made in the same way…

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    How to Make a Burlap Fabric Bowl

    April 29, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Aย Burlap Fabric Bowl Tutorial A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorialย showing how to make a burlap picnic mat. Sometimes if you are eating outside, you need more than just a mat to eat off. You need bowls and things too! Taking enough foodย to feed 6 hungry…

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Doing something creative can be a way to express h Doing something creative can be a way to express how nature fills us with inspiration, how we can't help but let it overflow into things we make, or paint or draw.

It can also be a way to notice what is there. It's so easy to rush through life  without really seeing, for things to become so familiar that even when we slow down, life's distractions stop us paying close attention to all the beautiful things that are there for us to see. There is so much beauty in the natural world, and so much peace to be found in not just spending time in nature, but leaving the distractions behind, parking the worries and putting our phones in our pockets, and being fully present.

Drawing, or painting, or even making some kind of abstract stitched thing requires us to really look. To notice the different shapes of the petals, and the tiny shadows and the little lines. How it is slightly more pink at the edges. How the centre of the flower is green, not pink. 

The drawing is the result of what we see. Whether or not somebody else would think it is good is not the point. It's about what you see, what you notice, and how that travels from your brain, through your arm and out onto a piece of paper, and how now that perfect little thing is there in your brain. Whatever else is going on, there is cherry blossom ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒธ 

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #inspiredbynature #blossom #spring
Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ I never get tire Colour schemes for March ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿƒ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ

I never get tired of seeing fields full of daffodils.

Blossom, so much of it this year ๐Ÿ’–

The view across the river in King's Lynn. 

Daffodils again

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#creativelife #wildblossomlife #springcolourpalettes #March #norfolk
Blossom spam! So far March has been a lot less we Blossom spam!

So far March has been a lot less wet than February, and there has been plenty of sunshine and some almost warm days.

In the past, when lionish weather has come back, I've seen it as nature trying to trick us. It seems like spring, and then it is winter again. Maybe summer is on its way, then no, we've regressed back to winter.

Now I don't see it like that. Sunny days are a treat, and a promise of what is to come ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ’–

#spring #blossom #norfolk #wildblossomlife #creativelife
You know that feeling when you feel inspired by na You know that feeling when you feel inspired by nature and the changing seasons, and you want to do something or make something but you don't know what?

Creative invitations are open ended ideas that invite noticing and creative exploration. There is no expectation to produce something perfect, done in a certain way or even finished. The process matters as much as the end result, and it's fine to try them, ignore them, abandon them, or take them further.

Here are some creative invitations for March:

๐ŸŒผ Take inspiration from the daffodils'  frilly trumpets and make something frilly. An easy way to do this is to add too many stitches when crocheting or knitting. Another is to deliberately pull at a hem while sewing it.

๐ŸŒผ Spot yellow things. Obviously daffodils are yellow, but you might spot other yellow things, natural and human made.

๐ŸŒผ Step outside at sunset and notice the colours in the sky. Before the clocks change, where I live sunset is at about 6.30, then afterwards an hour later. There are sometimes lovely sunsets in March.

๐ŸŒผ  Stitch the weather. You could add some applique as well if you wanted to. Sometimes there are all four seasons in March!

#wildblossomlife #creativelife #creativeinvitations #inspiredbynature #spring
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