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    Pumpkin Pincushion Tutorial

    October 11, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Pumpkin Pincushion Tutorial Earlier in the year I made a pincushion. I had been guilty of putting pins in my mouth, even though I knew it was dangerous and therefore probably not a good idea. While watching The Great British Sewing Bee, I noticed that firstly none…

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    Easy Backpack Tutorial

    October 4, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    An Easy Backpack Tutorial When my boys were tiny, I always had a bag of stuff for them. Little cups with milk or water in, an extra blanket, nappies, wipes, a bib, a change of clothes, spare socks, it was easy to fill a large bag! As they got…

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    An Oven Gloves Tutorial

    September 16, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    An Oven Gloves Tutorial The full oven gloves tutorial is on the Minerva Crafts Bloggers’ Network. This post contains affiliate links. When we moved into our current house, one the things we wanted to do was redo the kitchen. Now, almost 14 years later,this might actually happen! I…

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    Cute and Squishy Quilted Bag Tutorial

    September 7, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Quilted bag tutorial This quilted bag tutorial is the last in a series of posts I have been writing to show what can be made using the new Tilda fabric collections, Memory Lane and Cabbage Rose. I was sent the fabric so that I could take part in…

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    How to Make a Zippered Pouch With a Flat Bottom

    August 4, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    How to Make a Zippered Pouch With a Flat Bottom I was recently sent some fabric from the people at Stitch Craft Create so that I could participate in their blog hop. The fabric was a selection of fat quarters from the new Tilda collections, Memory Lane and…

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    A Quick and Easy Fabric Basket Tutorial

    July 26, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Quick and Easy Fabric Basket Tutorial I was recently sent some fabric by the people at Stitch Craft Create. It was 8 fat quarters from the new Tilda ranges, Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane, so that I could join in the Tilda Bloghop next month. Like all…

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Wild Blossom Companion: A Gentle Beginning

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The house martins who spend the summers in their n The house martins who spend the summers in their nests under the eaves of my house have gone, back to sub Saharan Africa where they will spend the winter.

Every year their arrival announces the imminent arrival of summer, and their departure marks the beginning of autumn. 

Hand stitching these little birds has been a way to slow down and acknowledge the seasons changing. It's not a big thing, it hasn't required lots of time or a special trip somewhere, and I already had the fabric and the thread. But it's enough to recognize that autumn is here, and that nature operates in cycles. The house martins have left but they'll be back in the spring.

It's also what I hope the Wild Blossom Companion offers: gentle invitations to notice and mark the changing of the seasons.

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Under the eaves of my house there are house martin Under the eaves of my house there are house martins' nests. Every year in April,  the house martins' arrive, and all through the summer I hear them chattering in their nests and see them swooping about. 

The sound of those little birds chattering is part of the summer soundscape, until one day I realise that it's quiet, and they've gone. It's usually in late August or early September, and it's a sign that autumn is on its way.

One year they didn't arrive until June and I was worried. But they still came back! 

The house martins remind me that cycles and seasons often involve both beginning again and letting go.

To mark their leaving this year, I've been embroidering a little abstract piece that feels like birds in flight. It's a way of holding onto them even as they leave, and reminding myself that they will be back in the spring. 

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I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blo I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blossom Companion. The light is more golden now and less harsh, there are fluffy seed heads and soft grasses, fluffy clouds and pets to cuddle.

September is that soft edge between summer and autumn. The colours are becoming muted, with more faded greens, ochre and dusty rose. 

We might reach for a favourite jumper in the freshness of early morning, or a blanket as the evenings draw in.

We're invited to walk softly as leaves start to fall.

What does softness mean to you, and how do you weave it into the creative bits of your life?

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Even as we get older, it's very difficult to shake Even as we get older, it's very difficult to shake off the shiny shoes and new pencil case feeling that September brings. 

In some ways, it feels more like a new year than January does! But I don't think we need to rely on other people telling us whether or not it is a new year. We can start a new year whenever we like!

One way to start afresh is to take a moment, step outside and notice what is there. Signs of autumn are appearing where I live, even though it still feels like summer.

Taking a little bit of time to slow down and really see can help us to be there in the present, instead of endlessly rushing from one thing to the next and before we know it, it's Christmas again.

This is why I created the Wild Blossom Companion. It's designed to encourage you to slow down a bit and notice, and see how you might use those in things you make. There's no need to completely change your life. That's not what it is. It's also not a toilet roll long ticky list. It's a way to honour the quieter, slower rhythms of a creative life.

I have a free edition available on my website if you like the idea of it and you'd like to try it without any commitment. It's called A Gentle Beginning and the link is on my bio.

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