I love making Christmas gifts for people - in fact I end up making more gifts than I buy. I try and not get too carried away by commercialization & keeping it as home made as possible is my favorite way to do it. After all, I’m a huge Christmas nut :-) I’ve grown up […]
Char from Weary Parent has put together a fantastic link roundup of the best Thanksgiving posts from around the Lifestyles channel.
Go enjoy the feast here!
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I’ve been working away madly on Christmas presents (unfortunately, I just can’t show any pictures until after Christmas!) and spent most of my morning & afternoon hunched over my sewing machine.
I’m as guilty as the next person when it comes to paying attention to how I’m feeling as I work. Inspiration or even just […]
Oh blast.
The igolochkoy fairy paid me a visit this morning (thanks Mum!) and I now have an inspiring box of punch needles & bunka thread.
I’ve got my pattern drawn onto the base fabric.
I’ve got all my colors selected.
I now have the needles.
Ready to go? Unfortunately, no.
I’ve mislaid my embroidery hoop, somewhere - in my studio […]
Oops.
I just left a very pretty Christmas wreath that I made out of yo-yos & ribbon at a local craft store.
Without taking a photo to share with you all!
It’s a demo for a class I’m teaching in December & I will get it back… I just should have remembered before I left the store today […]
I’m working on quite a large piece of fabric that’s been heavily fused together. Needless to say, my sewing machine needle is covered with sticky gunky glue and is breaking thread like crazy!
Did you know that alcohol-based hand sanitizers will dissolve the glue from fusibles?
I keep a cotton ball lightly dabbed with the gel next […]
I mentioned a few days ago that I had received a review copy of John Loecke’s “Grosgrain Style”. I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and actually make something from the book :-)
Grosgrain Style is a great reference or project book, especially useful for beginning crafters. The instructions on how to tie […]
Setting the pattern: Adventures in sewing and stitching and the artful use of fabric and fiber
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