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Easiest Notebook Ever! How To Make a Notebook

February 19, 2020June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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Easiest Notebook Ever! How To Make a Notebook This post contains affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you anything but if you click on a link and make purchase, you’ll help to support Tea and a Sewing Machine. Oh my goodness, who doesn’t love stationery?? Pretty notebooks, matching pens,…

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How to Make a Fabric Diary Cover

February 2, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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Even though I have called this post How to Make a Fabric Diary Cover, you could make one to cover a journal or to pretty up a plain notebook. I made this fabricΒ for my Moleskine diary. The diary itself is fine, lots of space to write my lists,…

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July... 🌸 Blackberries that are starting to lo July... 🌸 Blackberries that are starting to look ripe, although they might still be a bit zingy for most people's tastes! 🌸 Fields full of wild flowers 🌸 Lots of sunshine! 🌸 Some of the wheat is nearly ready for harvesting. 🌸 Shady lanes are blissfully cool 🌸 The wild and jungly buddleia in my garden is covered in butterflies If you like the idea of slowing down a bit and noticing the seasons changing, along with some ideas for gentle, open ended creative things you can do that reflect the seasons, you might be interested in the Wild Blossom Companion. It's a themed, monthly guide for creative people and is available as a subscription or as standalone months. There are links in bio, or DM me if you want to as anything. πŸ’–πŸŒžπŸŒΏ #july #creativelife #seasonalinspiration #summer #norfolk #enjoyingtheseasons
A new project! It was years ago that I realised A new project! It was years ago that I realised that the landscape here in Norfolk is so often stripy. Fields, hedges, lanes, the sea, clouds, all manage to arrange themselves into a series of stripes. The idea of making a neat little drawing or a painting might feel like too much, especially if you are somebody who likes the idea of making art but are afraid of doing it wrong. Making a picture by assembling stripes can feel much less intimidating. Some of the decisions have already been made, and the stripes mean that one thing in particular is the focus, rather than all of it and not knowing where to start because it's all too much. The next thing I'm going to do is sew the stripes together, then I might add some embroidered poppies to the foreground. At the moment it is under a tea towel to protect it from the cats! This idea is a creative invitation from June's Wild Blossom Companion. I've assigned a theme to each month, but plenty of the themes can be revisited at other times of the year as well. If you'd like more information about the Wild Blossom Companion, there is a link in my bio πŸŒΈπŸ’– #creativelife #wildblossomlife #wildblossomcompanion #stripes #Norfolk #seasonalcreativity #creativeinvitation #creativeideasforsummer
"To be creative is to let little pieces of your he "To be creative is to let little pieces of your heart go and place them into each project you make." Pat Bravo, textile designer. This quote shows perfectly why it doesn't matter if what you make isn't perfect. Perfection isn't the point! A machine might be able to do something perfectly, and get the same perfect results every time. That's why mass produced is awful. Dozens of things, all the same, with no variation. Handmade things are different. Each one is unique. Even if we make the same thing several times, each one will be different because it is very hard to make things that are identical. It's the same in nature. Each little leaf, flower, buzzing insect, cat, or human is different. They're not supposed to be the same. We are not the same. And the things that make things different might be what makes them imperfect, but I'd rather have something unique and imperfect than boringly perfect and the same as a hundred others. #lettinggoofperfectionism #perfectisboring #creativelife #creativityeveryday #handmade
As makers of things, it's easy to see how colour i As makers of things, it's easy to see how colour inspires us. It's often the first thing we think of when we're planning to make something. But textures often come into it as well. When we're sewing, it's how we want the finished thing to feel. A cool summer skirt, a crisp shirt, a flouncy party dress for a little child, a warm winter coat. With knitting and crochet, we might choose stitches that give a smoother finish, like stocking stitch, or something more varied, bobbles or cabling. Even with painting, there are ways to paint that suggest textures, and certain colours that evoke smoothness, or a rougher surface. Different textures are all around us, and inspiration might strike if we take a moment to notice πŸ’–πŸŒΈπŸŒΏ The theme of July's Wild Blossom Companion is textures, and if you would like to find out more about it, it is for sale in my Etsy shop Gather and Bloom. The link is in my bio πŸ’– #summertextures #creativelife #summerinspiration #wildblossomlife #wildblossomcompanion #natureinspired
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