Twirling Asterisk!

I’ve been very tempted to join in with Spring Fever… But I’d thought I’d better give it a miss because for one thing I don’t have many stringy, or potentially stringy, scraps and for another thing I resolved to sew nothing but bee blocks until I get myself up-to-date (not to mention my that trip-a-long […]

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Meet Joanna!

Thoughts are like butterflies. They appear out of nowhere and most of them should probably be left to pass by. But when I thought about having a piano (which I don’t really want) in my sewing room and not having a design wall (which I would like) and about having some random pieces of curtain […]

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Waste-not-want-not!

jelly roll strips I spent my formative years standing on a table with my mother (who I should probably mention at this point was a tailor) sticking pins into me! And I learnt two things. One was to stand still. The other was to think of fabric like gold dust. We always had a scrap […]

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A Sunday Shoe

needle case sole space for thimble etc pincushion stuffing in toe I think I’ve lost my mojo :( I didn’t have the heart to post my Friday Finishes when everything was the same as my WIP and all I’ve accomplished since Wednesday is this slipper pincushion.  One of my Bee friends loves shoes and I […]

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Then and Now…

Welcome to another Really Random Thursday! Yesterday I came across these photos that I took in 2011. April began bright and bare-branched Gradually a greening A peeping through of spring flowers And a contentedness of ducks. Then, a few days later, I walked around the pond with Lucy, And the world was bursting into life. […]

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BEE – ing

for Debra front I’ve go so behind with my Bees lately that I’m resolved to do nothing but Bee sewing until I’m caught up so all my WIP this week is Bee related. The house pincushion was inspired by a TV Advertisement for British Gas (which you can see here). back for Fiona Next on the list is […]

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Design Wall Weekend

Do you have a design wall? If I had one this pincushion is my most recent project that I would have pinned to it. I planned to add some sheep but once I’d made a world less that 3″ in diameter and a house less 1″ tall the scale became too daunting! After I had […]

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Easter Bunny Cushion!

If you feel like making something quick and cheerful and seasonal, how about finding a Springtime image at the Graphics Fairy. You can find the brown rabbit print I used here or browse through hundreds of free vintage images. Just print your image onto a piece of transfer paper (I used a TAP Transfer Sheet), remembering to […]

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