Workshop: Mini-quilts
Last Saturday, I led a mini-quilt workshop showing the girls how to make simple but pretty mini art quilts like this one I made a while ago. These quilts can be hung like pictures or converted into cushions or bags, if you are feeling adventurous! Before everyone arrived, I cut up the fabric and wadding ...
Caroline: Covered Buttons
This is a great project if you want to give last year’s mac a bit of a make-over! My mac was £22 in the Debenhams 75% off sale a couple of years ago now and while I love the shape, I really wanted to find a way to lift the colour. After a few runs ...
Top tips Tuesday: quick frock fix
A really quick post today as I’m kinda busy… In recent years strapless dresses have become the norm for summer occasionwear. Thanks to the abundance of strapless and multiway bras available this is not too great a problem for many of us, but there are still a few of us who are just not comortable ...
Caroline: Blues Blanket
After our initial forays into crochet granny squares last workshop I set my practice piece aside in favour of a smaller hook and some beautiful coloured wools donated by fellow member, Nat. I call this my Blues Blanket, despite it being a combination of blue, purple, green and black, because of the blue base, and ...
Top Tips Tuesday: Selvedge How To Projects
Selvedge magazine is an inspirational dreamwork, chock full of beautiful images, ideas and suggestions, trips and events and the history of crafts. It’s coffee table publication standard but in a bi-monthly magazine, and it is the high level of quality that justifies the £10 price tag. However, the website is free to access, and alongside ...
Caroline: Bunting Project
One of my colleagues is getting married in a few weeks, and it sounds amazing – all bridesmaids in polka dot swing dresses and vintage stylings… Being a creative type, she is doing a lot of the wedding prep herself, from the salt dough heart favours to English country garden flower arrangements, every spare moment ...
Amy: Toy Story
Last week I had an appointment in Cardiff, so I decided to take the opportunity of having a lovely stroll past the river and down to Chapter Arts Centre to check out the exhibition that sew make believe has contributed to. Helen Frik’s ‘Difficult’ explores how traces of difficulty are to found in all histories ...
A Health Warning
It seems the crochet workshop last week has really ignited all our Sew Make Believe girlies’ urge to crochet. As such, the time has come to issue a formal (sorta… well, joke) warning – if you crochet for too long it will start to hurt! At last count we had one case of crochet-elbow, and 2 other ...
Kate: WIP Mountain
Does anyone else feel a little inundated with the amount of projects that they have either on-the-go or in the pipeline? I have had to put a temporary hold on all my crafting due to an imminent (and FINAL!) long essay for my Open University course. This crafting moratorium could not come at a worse ...
Workshop: Crochet Surgery and Granny Squares
Following on from the crochet workshop from 4 weeks ago, last night, Roisin led us in another 2 hours of yarn-filled fun, learning how to make granny squares. Since I had unfortunately missed the last session, I had a bit of catching up to do, having never picked up a crochet hook in my life. ...
