Zoë: Recycled Wrapping
Wrapping presents doesn’t have to involve fancy sheets of paper and expensive gift bags. For my husband’s birthday I have wrapped his presents in pages from one of his old Top Gear magazine that was on its way to the recycling bin and put them all in a paper Selfridges bag. I think it has ...
Lysy: Me Made March
Me Made March is the brilliant idea of blogger Zoe, who writes at the equally brilliantly titled So, Zo, What do you know? It follows on from previous events Me Made May, and Self Stitched September, and as the names suggest, is an event to encourage sewists to wear things they have made or fashioned ...
Lysy: Repurposing in 1903
Repurposing old or unwanted items into new gifts is certainly not a new phenomenon – or so I found when reading copies of women’s magazine Home Notes from the start of the twentieth century last week. This was under the title ‘A Use for Sea Shells’ in issue 514 of 1903: ‘The summer holidays are ...
Top Tip Tuesday: Royal Wedding Knitting
With the royal wedding coming up this week how about knitting a version of your own. If you fancy a corgi then the pattern from the book is available for free here.
Zoë: Shoe Tidy
When we moved into our new house we had lots of trouble with shoes in the hallway so I made a shoe tidy to hang on the wall. The hallway is quite narrow so there wasn’t room for any of the shoe racks or cabinets I had seen. The fabric tidy hanging on the wall isn’t too ...
Workshop: Button corsages
On Wednesday evening we had a button corsage workshop, or an introduction to the wonders of the glue gun! The workshop was led by Jo who led our felt corsage workshop last year. This time she’s been making some wonderful brooches from buttons (see above), although she also demonstrated how you can use them in ...
Lysy: Sheep Tea Cosy
Zoë’s post on her cute knitted tea cosy reminded me that I had never shared pictures of one I made before Christmas. It was a present for some friends who use a tea cosy every day, but their current cosy definitely lacked cuteness. I used a pattern from this book and it was pretty straightforward. ...
Zoë: Recycled Pyjamas
My husband had a pair of very well loved pyjamas. They went from long pyjamas to short ones when holes appeared in the knees and elbows. Then there were holes appearing all over the place and ripping noises whenever he put them on! I said I would try to make something out of what was ...
Top Tip Tuesday: Pincushion pattern
Need a new pincushion? Try this lovely free pattern from Heathey Bailey.
Caroline: Going Mobile
I finally got around to finishing the mobile I was making for Evelina, for Kate’s handmade nursery. I weighted the birds by placing single glass beads into stuffed pink hearts. This helped the mobile to balance evenly. Kate already has a beautiful mobile made for her as a baby by her Grandma, but I thought ...
