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…
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…
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…
The last couple of purses I’ve made have been tiny so here is a purse tutorial for a rather bigger one! I love the whole retro, Scandi, massive flowers and geometric shapes thing that is going on at the moment. I am old enough to remember the 70s…
Recently the boys attended the children’s holiday club at our church. They had a great time! One of the ways in which the children were motivated to join in was by giving them fake coins to put in little purses. They were all counted up at the end of…
As I have gradually got better at sewing and I’ve tried more things, I have been amazed at how easy things are that I previously thought were some kind of wizardry only available to people were amazing at sewing. Magnetic snaps were one such thing. I wrote a…