I’ve been meaning to sew up a Christmas tree skirt for the last few years, but never get around to it! By the time I’ve enough spare time to do anything new the presents are all exchanged and we’re left with a full tree base! We’re so spoilt by our lovely friends and family. But…
I made paw shaped stockings last year for two gorgeous cat furiends, Clawde and Pawsha. Unfortunately Pawsha, like our Smudge, passed over the rainbow bridge this year. Both taken too soon and both missed so very much. There are now two additions to Clawde’s family, and one to ours, and it wouldn’t be right for…
With a new kitten in the house, I needed to whip up a new cat foot mat (they’re quickly thrown in the wash to referesh them). They’re extremely simple to make and will only take 10 minutes.
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…
