Happy Halloween!
I finished my Halloween decoration! Granted, I had planned on making much more but there is always next year. Happy Halloween!
What is Knitting in the Round?
Sometimes it’s helpful to be able to ‘knit in the round’. This basically means knitting continuously round a circle of stitches, so producing a tube. It’s great for pieces of clothing like socks, sleeves or gloves, and it can also be good for making parts of soft toys. There are two ways to knit in ...
Inspiration: Rob Ryan
You might already aware of Rob Ryan, even if you don’t know who he is. I have noticed his designs turning up in more and more places over the last few months. From the free Stylist magazine, to John Lewis, from clothes to notebooks, his work seems to be everywhere at the moment. I first became ...
Top Tip Tuesday: UK Handmade
UK Handmade is a ‘design led online magazine committed to showcasing and promoting the best creative talent the UK has to offer’. The free magazine can be viewed electronically, and past issues are also available. It is well presented, and gives readers an insight into the lives of crafters who are making a living from their ...
Lysy: Jewellery roll from ‘Sew a Metre’
This is a post about a project and also a review of the book it came from. The project is a jewellery roll, and the book is Sew a Metre (available in the USA as ‘One Yard Wonders’ with exactly the same patterns). My copy of the book was a birthday present from Kate but ...
Book Review: Purls of Wisdom
OK, so technically this isn’t a book review as I haven’t even seen the book yet. I thought it sounded good enough to let you all know about it. If anyone as looked at it, or does so in the future please let us know what you think about it. Here is the synopsis from ...
Top Tip Tuesday (on a Wednesday!): Granny Squares
Many sew make believe members have recently learnt how to crochet granny squares. Many blankets have been made. The projects below offer a few new ideas for using granny squares – should you fancy moving on from blankets! This lovely bag doesn’t have instructions, but it might inspire you to make up your own. How ...
Book club questions: The End of Mr Y
This Wednesday’s meetup is Book Club, where we’ll be discussing Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y. We’ll be aiming to run this as a relatively free-form discussion, but thought you might like some topics to think about beforehand, to help get conversation flowing on the night… Do you believe Ariel’s experiences? Or is the ...
Meetup With a Twist: Kate’s smb Baby Shower!
We’ve had a few smb babies now, but with Kate being one of our founder members, several sew make believers wanted to do something special to celebrate the impending birth of Baby Girl Bythell. So, Senior Officer Lysy had the brilliant idea of running an additional social meeting, but converting it into a baby shower ...
Magazine Review: Cloth
An embarrassingly long time ago now, sew make believe were lucky enough to receive a couple of issues of Cloth magazine to review. And we passed them around and enjoyed them, and had far too much fun reading them and borrowing ideas from their pages to actually get around to writing about them. All of ...
