Last year, our lovely neighbor made us a little bunting to put in our front window. It looked adorable, and while she hand sewed the entire thing, I’m much happier using my machine! As any regular readers will know, I’m quite lazy when it comes to hand sewing, only ever doing it when I absolutely…
Our first small batch of Christmas fabrics arrive a little while ago now, however I’ve been puttin gall my efforts into our new book. While we have oodles of work at the moment, I couldn’t resist starting the Christmas blog posts. Here’s a tutorial for this wonderful cushion cover, for which I used the glorious…
What You’ll Need 16 Squares measuring 5″ from the metalic poinsettia fat quarters (4 each from 4 fabrics) 2 Squares of scrap fabric measuring 5″ Stuffing Needle & Thread 13″ Ribbon 2 Buttons
This tutorial was inspired by those paper chains you’d make as a child with glue and paper, and if you were lucky, a bit of glitter. I used to love making them as a child and so thought I’d try to create them out of a medium I now love working with; fabric. This is…
Every year we make and gift around 30 bottles of wine and to gift these we have to buy gift bags, so this year I’ve decided to make reuseable bags. Wouldn’t it be great if the recipients kept and reused the bags to gift to someone else the following year. Nice thought. Two 18 x…
Two years ago, I received a couple of T-towels from my dear Sister-in-Law for Christmas (they have pretty cats on them, she knows me so well!) – They’re too cute to use as T-Towels, that no-one will see, so I decided I’d repurpose them into aprons! However! I put them away for safe-keeping and can’t…
Hey guys! So… I’m part of many sewing groups and one question I’ve seen come up a few times this past week is “How do I prepare a quilt for quilting”. With that in mind, and limited time for blog writing at the moment, I thought I’d put together this simple tutorial. I’m not preparing…
Good afternoon from what is currently a lovely bright day here in Derbyshire, although the clouds rolling in mean it won’t be that way for long! We’ve been a little quite on the blog for the last few weeks, but rest assured we’re still around and working away on new product launches. We have several…
We all have that bag in the attic right? The one that’s full of gift wrap that gets dragged down once a year at Christmas and then barely gets touched because the new ranges are much prettier. Sigh. These wonderful little gift bags are really quick to make once you get the hang of it….
Foundation paper piecing can be somewhat daunting… until you get it! And once you do, you’ll fall in love with it’s simplicity and how it can easily allow you to create stunning quilt blocks that are identical. This tutorial will use a simple block to demonstrate just how easy it can be. You’ll need to…
