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…
I love making Christmas stockings, but seriously, how many times can you change them without ending up with a hoard? I’m making us new ones this year and plan to keep them for a few years so figured I’d write up a tutorial. They’re really easy to make and look beautiful! What You’ll Need 1…
Last year I made a few folded star ornaments, but it was fairly late in the year and I simply ran out of time to create a blog post for them. This year, I plan to release a Cathedral Window ornament tutorial and have finally *made* time to document the making of the folded star…
We had a Springer Spaniel for 14 years and he loved all of his toys (until someone touched them, then he wasn’t interested). Suffice to say, he had a lot! This year I’ve decided I’m going to create a few gift bundles for the furbabies in the family. We currently have two cats, however, plenty…
I made a couple of these last year for our furbabies, but as with absolutely everything I made last year, I had no time to create a tutorial for them. I’m being so, so good with time management this year and trying to get everything written up in advance. That way I can sit and…
Following on from the no-sew Christmas wreath, I wanted to create something with a little height to add to the centre of the Christmas table, cue the no-sew Christmas tree. Lots of folding and pinning in this one, so I’d advise you to use a thimble! What You’ll Need Fabric (I used Stuart Hillard’s Merry…
