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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star

    December 19, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    DIY Embroidered Christmas Star When I was younger, I did a lot of Christmas crafting. I used to make cards and decorations and bake stuff. Then I had kids and everything changed! I’d plan to make lots of things, then feel frustrated and annoyed that I hadn’t managed…

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    Christmas Embroidery Project With a Free Pattern!

    September 28, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Christmas Embroidery Project Although I love Christmas and making things for Christmas, over the last few years I’ve given up on the idea of making masses of stuff specifically for Christmas. It’s just too busy! And it has a habit of sneaking up on me. I know the…

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    Christmas Embroidery Hoop

    September 22, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Christmas Embroidery Hoop Last month I was invited to contribute to a series of posts on All Free Sewing for National Sewing Month. One of the suggestions was sewing for Christmas and, as it had been a long time since I’d made anything Christmassy, I decided to hatch…

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    Tote Bag Tutorial

    July 21, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Tote Bag Tutorial Here’s a tote bag tutorial! I’m not going to say an awful lot about this, except that I’ve made 2 of these bags for a teacher. They’re the correct size for carrying A4 exercise books, so they’d also be fine for carrying library books or…

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  • Easiest Bunting Tutorial Ever

    July 12, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easiest Bunting Tutorial Ever Making bunting isn’t especially difficult, but there are several ways of going about it. Some ways are more time consuming than others. Taking your time over it is fine if you’re only making a bit, or if you need it to be special. One…

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    Handmade Wallet Tutorial

    July 8, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Handmade Wallet Tutorial Although I quite like my current wallet, it’s looking distinctly tatty. It also has 2 major disadvantages. The first is that it’s huge and it takes up an awful lot of room in my bag. The second is that because it has so many useful…

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Colour schemes for February ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค February alw Colour schemes for February ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค

February always seems like a green and white kind of month. Snowdrops, obviously, but also I'm surprised at how much green there is at the beginning of February. The lack of leaves make the greens of moss and lichen, and of evergreens, more noticeable. 

By the end of February, there'll be blossom, and maybe even a few leaves ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ฎ

#creativelife #february #green #colourschemes #februarycolourpalette
So I gave in and got a gelli plate. I didn't befor So I gave in and got a gelli plate. I didn't before because I thought it was probably not the best idea to get myself into another thing that was  potentially addicting! But due to the kerfuffle in finishing the next unit of my textiles degree, I missed the deadline to start in February, so I start the next unit in March. And I still wanted to try it.

These are the best results from my first attempts. The first one is my favourite, which I made with a piece of hessian. The second one was also hessian, and the last 2 were bubble wrap. But even the ones that didn't turn out that well had interesting bits, and the others could probably be used for backgrounds or collage.

I'm going to carry on experimenting. If you've tried printing with a gelli plate and you have some suggestions, please let me know!

#wildblossomlife #creativelife #gelliprint #textures #lettinggoofperfectionism
Things have been busy. Textiles degree coursework Things have been busy. Textiles degree coursework and 4 separate lurgies since the beginning of December, including COVID. Now I am getting back to my wild blossom life ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐Ÿ’–

#wildblossomlife #creativelife #january #slowingdownabit
Friday weirdness fix ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜‚ Things have been a Friday weirdness fix ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜‚

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 ๐Ÿ‘

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#textiles #textilesdegree #weaving #turquoiseandred
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