Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
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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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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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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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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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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Finished 1 (blogged here) In Progress 5 No Progress 1 Janine @ Rainbow Hare I’m linking this post with:
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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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This week I had big sewing plans. And, as it turned out, the world had other plans but I’ve been trying to have at least one Friday Finish every week this year so I made this little pin cushion. I always think you can’t have enough pin cushions and a little finish is still a […]
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As you can see from the photo below, it’s so dull and dark here even the birds don’t know what to make of it. About a thousand arrived yesterday, settled in the trees for a few minutes and flew away again. So I felt we were much in need of some brightening up and, on […]
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