Top Tip Tuesday: Pre-Cut Fabric Packs
If you want to get into quilting but don’t know where to start, you might want to try buying layer cakes, charm packs or jelly rolls. These are pre-cut packs in complementing patterns from the same fabric range so you know the fabrics will go together. It also saves some time with the cutting and ...
Blighty Boutique Vintage & Handmade Fair Jubilee Special
On 3 June, the Blighty Boutique Vintage and Handmade Fair is back at Hatton Park Village Hall for a Jubilee Special! All the usual lovely stalls can be found and there is a playground to the rear to send partners and babes should you need some time to concentrate on the goodies for sale! Also, our ...
Meetup: The Hunger Games Book Club
Wednesday evening, we had our bi-monthly book club chat. We discussed The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. For what seems like the first time in a long time, quite a few of us had read the books (all three books at that!) and we all really enjoyed them too! It was a fun discussion ...
Meetup: Scrapbook Page
On Wednesday night, Zoe W led a fantastic scrapbooking workshop showing us how to compose a 12″x12″ page. For some of us, it was a first try at scrapbooking of this type. We each brought along photos and memorabilia to include on our page and spent the evening happily cutting and pasting (old school style!). ...
Get Ready to Scrapbook
Next Wednesday, 18 April, Zoe W will be showing us how to create a scrapbook page so I thought it would be a good idea to remind you what you will need to bring if you want to come along. The first thing you will need is a set of photographs that are related in ...
Easter Crafting
Real Simple’s Celebrating Easter board on Pinterest has a ton of ideas for making at Easter. I keep meaning to get into making things for Easter and for some reason it always sneaks up on me. I like a holiday which is tied down on the calendar, I suppose! Next year, perhaps (!).
Meetup: Social Sit ‘n’ Sew
Wednesday night’s meetup was a lovely evening of sewing, crochet, chatting and inspiration. Zoe W whetted our appetites for the scrapbook page workshop she is running in a fortnight by bringing along her scrapbook albums. This gave us an idea of the type of page we might be able to create and what kind of photos we will ...
Tutorial: Maple Leaf Block Part Two
Part 1 of the tutorial can be found here. Here are my notes on the second stage of the Maple Leaf block: Layers Once you have your patchwork block finished, we need to build the quilt sandwich. Cut out some backing fabric and wadding which measures just a little bigger than your top (it will ...
Book Club: The Sealed Letter
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue The Sealed Letter was our latest book club pick for sew make believe. Our meeting to discuss it was on Wednesday and unfortunately I missed it due to an inopportune migraine which needed an early night to put in its place, and given that only two others had read the ...
