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Welcome to wool on Sundays:) Welcome to Wool on Sundays 86 and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) This week I have knitted capes… And, without further ado, I give you – a parade of peg dolls… …and A QUICK HOW TO… (sorry, this is not a step by step photo tute […]
Read More…It seems like a long time since I’ve linked up Friday sewing finishes but this week I have finishes. I’ve come to end of my biggest ever sewing project – something that has taken me about half a year but that I have not yet blogged much about. In the Spring, Demetria from RJR Fabrics, […]
Read More…Have you linked up any new things you’ve tried this month with Fiona? My most exciting ‘New to Me’ in May was having my Caravan Pattern featured on the News page of the June Edition of Cross Stitcher Magazine. I was amazed when Katie Allen sent me an etsy convo asking to include it and, […]
Read More…I get a LOT of questions concerned with changing the size of my Vintage Caravan Sewing Machine Cover so I decided to make a post, here, to suggest ways of doing this. The finished size of the cover is: 20″ X 13″ X 9″ The cover is free standing so I would suggest that it’s […]
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The threads mark the centre of the face (the horizontal thread is the eyeline). The pin marks centre point for hair. Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (front) Crochet chain pinned to mark hairline (back) Stitch crochet chain to head Stitch a loop under the place the bun will go with […]
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67 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! Welcome to Rainbow Hare for My stop on the Ho, Ho, Ho And on We Sew Blog Hop! I was delighted, back in January when Fiona invited me to host a spot on this great monthly linky party run by Fiona and Paula and I felt certain I would have Christmas all wrapped up by now […]
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This post is adapted from the Tutorial which accompanies my Basic Jointed Cloth Doll Pattern. I’m posting it here because the techniques used are readily transferable to many patterns for dolls and softies (although some patterns will have some pieces that will have to be cut with a seam allowance and sewn in the traditional […]
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Here is Knit (you may have met him at the weekend in this post) with Granny Square. Granny Square thought it looked such a lovely day that it would be nice to go outside for a family photo. Purl is sitting nicely… …but Knit is fooling around. He did come and sit still in the […]
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Wine boxes seem to be the only properly strong packaging these days so I had to ransack my fabric storage… We didn’t have a television until after I started school, when I was five years old. And I can clearly remember, when we eventually got one, my first best friend, Deborah, asked me whether it […]
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