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  • Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams

    Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams

    June 10, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easy Drawstring Bag With Enclosed Seams My friend Wendy recently asked me to make her a little bag. She and her husband Danny play Scrabble, and they need a bag to keep the Scrabble tiles in. It also needed to be big enough to get a hand in…

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    Easy Lace Zip Purse Tutorial

    February 22, 2018June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    Easy Lace Zip Purse Tutorial Although I know of people who will go to some lengths to avoid sewing with zips, it’s difficult to avoid them altogether, especially if you like to make lots of different things. Lace zips are a fab idea. They turn something functional into a…

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    A Super Easy Pattern Weights Tutorial

    June 28, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Sewing Archives
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    A Pattern Weights Tutorial Whenever I make clothes for myself, whether I use a commercial pattern or a pattern that I made myself, it’s the cutting out stage that always takes longest. Since I started using a rotary cutter, the process has got quicker than when I was…

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    A Crocheted Phone Cosy Tutorial

    October 18, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Last time I posted, I wrote about crocheting cables. You can read about that here! I was so happy that I’d figured out how to crochet cables I had to make something! Having the attention span of a gnat, it needed to be something small and quick. So I…

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Wild Blossom Companion: A Gentle Beginning

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Whoever it was who said that blue and green should Whoever it was who said that blue and green should not be seen unless there's something in between must never have looked up and seen green leaves against a blue sky 🌿🌞💖

#wildblossomlife #spring #blueandgreen #lookup #slowingdownabit
After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a After I made the colour schemes for April, I had a look back at the ones I made for March. One of the March colour schemes was actually very similar to an April one.

It probably says quite a lot about which colours I like at the moment!

And it stands to reason that at a time of year when there is a lot of blossom, colour palettes are going to be similar. I don't think I could choose between them, it would be like choosing a favourite child! But I think it is interesting that the April one is definitely warmer, reflecting how spring changes from March to April in longer days and warmer weather.

If I think to, I might look for similar colours in May too, and make another colour scheme to compare with the others 🌸🌱🌿

#wildblossomlife #colourpalettes #spring #blossom #inspiredbynature
Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child? T Did you ever do butterfly paintings as a child?

The theme in April's Wild Blossom Companion is reflections. Sometimes our hands want to do something creative but we don't know what, and the Wild Blossom Companion has ideas of things to do within a theme.

I started off combining butterfly paintings with landscapes, and as I often find with anything literal I felt a bit anxious about whether what I was doing was any good. But that's kind of not the point! It's supposed to be playful exploration, not something that makes stress and anxiety worse! Plus the acrylic paint stuck on one of them and the paper tore.

So I gave that up and just blobbed paint onto the paper instead.

I think they look more like bunches of flowers then butterflies 💐what do you think?

And yes, I somehow managed to forget that phone needed to be the other way round! 🤦🤷🤪

#creativelife #painting #printing #spring #flowers
Colour schemes for April 🌸🌱💖 April is a pink mont Colour schemes for April 🌸🌱💖

April is a pink month, with  cherry and apple  blossom. There are also lots of new leaves, and spring sunlight makes them appear even greener 🌱

#wildblossomlife #colourschemes #colourpalettes #springcolours #blossom
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