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    Mobius Loops That Zip Together

    July 14, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Mobius Loops That Zip Together If somebody had told me 10 years ago that having kids would result in my liking maths, I wouldn’t have believed them. In fact, I think I would have laughed in that person’s face. Just as having a transport mad child means that…

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    How to Sew a Laptop Sleeve

    June 24, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Sew a Laptop Sleeve I like my stuff pretty. Not over the top pretty, everything pink and endless ruffles. But I do like pretty things, fabric boxes, cushions that I’ve made myself and I wear dresses for the school run. Laptops generally are not pretty. Neither…

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    Tea Towel Projects: Quick and Easy Messenger Bag Tutorial

    March 24, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Tea Towel Projects: Quick and Easy Messenger Bag Tutorial Tea towels areย a great source of inexpensive fabric, especially for small projects. They’re usually made from good quality cotton fabric, they come in a variety of prints and colours and if you buy a set of them, they all…

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    How To Sew In a Purse Frame

    February 24, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How To Sew In a Purse Frame Adding bits of hardware to handmade bags and purses is a nice way of getting a professional looking finish. Sometimes a zip or a button is fine, but if you want to use something different, there’s a nice variety of purse…

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    How to Sew a Pouch With a Zip

    February 17, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Sew a Pouch With a Zip For this tutorial showing how to sew a pouch with a zip, I wanted to combine 2 things. The first thing was that I wanted to make something pretty out of the daisies that I’ve been embroidering. The second thing…

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    DIY Diary Pen Holder Scrap Project

    February 3, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    DIY Diary Pen Holder This post contains affiliate links. One of the things I’ve found with having 4 kids is that I’ve had to abandon all my natural inclinations to be scatty and force myself to become organised instead. As I have a tendency to forget things, I…

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De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ De influencing your Christmas. You're welcome ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿคช

We got the tree from the same place we always do. It's a bit too big for the space. My youngest boy suggested measuring the space then measuring the trees before choosing one, but nobody remembered when we went to get the tree ๐ŸŒฒ 

I love all our decorations that hold so many memories but it looks nothing like the aesthetic, perfectly decorated trees that I have mostly seen on here. Actually, it looks a bit less of a mess than it has in the past. That could be because my helper is now taller and doesn't try to shove the decorations all on the same branches.

The telly is on in the first picture. We were watching something with James May and his buddies making things in his giant shed, except kids with phones who were not.

My youngest wanted to check how much space there was under the tree. Thankfully he didn't knock it over!

The cat thinks she is a Christmas decoration.

Aaaaannd... The last 2 pictures show how much mess was made getting the tree in .

Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ””๐Ÿ’•

#deinfluencing #realchristmas #mess #catsofchristmas #wildblossomlife
I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was I went out looking for red, but what I noticed was green!

The theme of December's Wild Blossom Companion is red, so I thought I might look for red things. There are plenty, berries, post boxes, horses (and humans) wearing red coats. But what caught my eye were the greens. 

๐Ÿ’š Lichen
๐Ÿ’š A green fence 
๐Ÿ’š Green patches on the bark of a tree
๐Ÿ’š Some green leaves still
๐Ÿ’š One of many colours on an oak leaf

It's as though now the leaves are mostly gone, other greens are easier to spot. When we have a good look, what we see is not always what we expect ๐Ÿ’šโค๏ธ

#wildblossomlife
#wildblossomcompanion
#green
#slowdecember
#getoutside 
#slowdownandnotice
Foraged wreath... Years ago, I used to make a wre Foraged wreath...

Years ago, I used to make a wreath from flower foam and Leyland cypress. But my neighbour's cypresses where my garden joined theirs were replaced by a fence, and I eventually realised that flower foam was really just plastic, it's not recyclable or compostable and it doesn't break down properly.

In the past I've made tied wreaths and ones from dried satsumas and slices of orange.

This year I wanted to make a foraged wreath. I've tried before and what I made looked sad. I don't have access to very much willow.

I was inspired by @crochetcrazyhelen to grab some twigs and stuff them in a big pot. My garden yielded all kinds of good stuff, brambles, out of control honeysuckle, dogwood, and ivy. Being a bad gardener pays off surprisingly often!

I decided my pot was too small, so I tried a drum head (my eldest son is drummer @dominic__0036 ), but that was too big. You know what Goldilocks also had? Hair. And probably bobbles. So I bent the brambles and things round in a circle and held them in place with hair bobbles, before tying it together with wool.

I did originally plan to add some berries and seed heads, but I actually like it as it is ๐Ÿ’–

#wildblossomlife #foragedwreath #slowdecember #natureinspired #advent #makeityourself
I know for some people, when 1st December arrives I know for some people, when 1st December arrives they want to feel ready for Christmas, to have all their decorations up and the presents at least under control if not completely sorted out.

I don't do it like that. Partly because I don't think I could ever be that organised! I used to mind that I wasn't, but now I don't. Also because I see December as the time to start things moving, not the time to have everything ready straight away. I love the idea of Advent, and I want to enjoy it, without throwing myself straight into Christmas.

Christmas can be brought in gradually. 

One of the songs currently playing inside my head is "People Look East" by Eleanor Farjeon, who incidentally also wrote "Morning has Broken". It's about preparing and making ready.

Feeling in that kind of mood today, I made the Christmas cake. A family recipe dating from 1979, in pounds and ounces, and with instructions to clean the fruit, feels comforting, especially when so much of modern Christmas seems to involve overconsumption of mass produced tat and cakes wrapped up in plastic that taste like playdoh.

These things can make the season feel mildly depressing , like a grey overlay over something that ought to make us feel good. It doesn't have to be like that. A hard no to playdoh flavoured cakes!

I've also gathered some bits to make a foraged wreath (being a terrible gardener has paid off again!), and went for a walk in the last of today's sunshine.

#December #wildblossomlife #advent #christmascake #slowdecember
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