Friday, January 15th, 2010
Choose a box canvas that measures - 30×30
Cut your chosen backing fabric to size, ensuring you leave enough overflow of fabric on each side to be glued to the underside of the canvas box.
(Note: Do not attach the backing fabric to the canvas box until the tea pot has been sewn onto it)
Start by downloading [...]
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
How To Sew Blanket Stitch
As promised here is a photo - by - photo demonstration on how to sew blanket stitch. If you already know how to sew this stitch you’ll know how easy and addictive it is once you’ve nailed it. If you don’t yet know how to sew blanket stitch then welcome to [...]
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
How To Make A Dried Apple Wreath for National Apple Day
Today in the UK it is National Apple Day and what better way to acknowledge this day than to make something for it out of apples.
Genius, eh!?
You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I suggested that you start drying your sliced apple pieces, and [...]
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
How To Make Simple Kitchen Curtains
Yesterday was the first day that ‘it’ was felt in the air. Rain fell in sheets, the radio played ever so gently in the background and the kitchen was filled with the smell of baking. We were officially cosy and will stay that way for many weeks to come. We haven’t had a fire [...]
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I find it really exasperating when I see a project that I’d like to do for myself in a magazine and I find out that the preparation for it should have started weeks ago.
What’s the point in that? It’s simply frustrating for the reader.
It evokes sympathy in me for the monthly publications because occasionally an [...]
Monday, October 5th, 2009
How To Make A Conker Wreath
Do you remember those journeys home from school when it was conker season?
Foraging (my current fave word) around under the horse chestnut tree for the shiny orbs of conkerness. Cramming my school blazer pockets full of the fellas and then not quite knowing what to do with them all when [...]
Friday, September 18th, 2009
We found this 1930’s magazine rack / log basket / something else entirely in a thrift store. It was reduced to £10 in the sale so I knew I had to have it. Why? Why did I have to have it I can hear you ask? Well, I had to have it because I find logs so [...]
Friday, September 4th, 2009
How to make curtain pelmets - it is actually really easy.
Here are the pelmets I made for the entrance hall to the house. I mentioned earlier that these are simply new versions of pelmets that were there before and they were so easy to put together that if I ever need pelmets again I shall definitely use this way of making [...]
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Hello & Happy Friday!!
I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to this weekend. I’m looking forward to it for the simplest of reasons - Robert the Husband and I are heading in to a town nearby to ‘check it out’. One of the joys of moving house, all the discoveries to be made! We’re also staking out [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
I’ve had some emails asking me about the fabric bags that were last seen in this post. As soon as I found out that there were butchers hooks in the new kitchen I knew that I could finally get away from the ‘too many glass herb jars in the cupboard’ syndrome and I did so [...]