A place to record my crafting adventures
From the category archives:
I’m sure you have heard about Pip’s new book ‘Sew La Tea Do‘ but in case you haven’t you can read a great review here. It’s a must buy for any crafty friends or for friends you want to convert to the ‘craft way’. Pip has done a great job, it is beautifully styled and [...]
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I’m quite excited with how this number is coming along.. Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
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not a huge one, but I love that it has given the hankies a new lease on life. Lavender sachets but I bet you thought they were going to become pincushions. For more creative spaces…get yourself over to Koo’s
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I don’t often get the chance to shop, let only op shop but with the eldest at daycare and Alfie quite content with goods from the bakery, I popped into the local oppy. Given that I am all about cross stitch this week, imagine my absolute delight when I stumbled upon these two beauties. Quite [...]
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I have long been an admirer of the humble cross stitch and given I am surrounded by friends of the stitchy kind, I am surprised it has taken me this long to have a go. For some reason, I always thought it would be really tricky…with all those teenie tiny crosses but it’s easy and [...]
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The fisrt swap, was The Pillow Talk swap..pretty clear what we had to do here. I made Heather a pillow using some linen, Denyse Schmidt Country Fair and Nani Iro fabric. I was pretty pleased with the outcome and was VERY tempted to hold onto it! The next swap is the “Hand Stitched” embroidery swap [...]
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until I finish this quilt. The girls in my sewing group know how difficult I find hand stitching…it is not the actual stitching part I struggle with (even though I am SO slow), it is the time it takes. I am goal driven, I’m not one to have loads of unfinished projects laying around for [...]
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I’m the sort of girl that is always looking forward to something, so when I saw this post by Buttons by LouLou I knew that I would have to join in. It’s Tuesday and I can’t wait for…my Mum’s Biggest Morning Tea, which is actually being held this Saturday afternoon so I guess it’s Mum’s [...]
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I was fortunate enough to receive the Meet Me At Mike’s craft book for my birthday back in March. As the book was given to me by one of the contributors – the very talented Alison of 6.5 stitches – I thought it only appropriate that her project be the first one I complete. The [...]
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