A Quick and Easy Fabric Basket Tutorial I was recently sent some fabric by the people at Stitch Craft Create. It was 8 fat quarters from the new Tilda ranges, Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane, so that I could join in the Tilda Bloghop next month. Like all the Tilda collections, it's beautiful! When I got it all out, although I could see several sewing projects and I couldn't wait to get started, it was so lovely I didn't want to cut into it! The ... Read the Post...
Easy Child’s Travel Pillow Tutorial
Easy Child's Travel Pillow Tutorial If you make long car journeys with children, you want to know that they are going to be comfortable as well as safe in the back of the car. And if they get so comfortable they fall asleep, that's even better! The problem is that once they outgrow the kind of car seat that has a back and sides, it can be difficult for them to get comfy if they want to sleep. A bored, tired child is not an ideal travelling ... Read the Post...
Crocheted Slippers Tutorial
A Crocheted Slippers Tutorial A couple of weeks ago Cosmo asked me to make him some crocheted slippers. I'd made some a year or so ago for the older boys and Cosmo had found some of the ones that I'd made previously and insisted that I made him a pair. I took him over the road to the hardware store that sells everything (they sell yarn and habby has well as toys, baking stuff, bits of chain, rat poison, plumbing bits and birthday cards) I let ... Read the Post...
What To Do When You’ve Lost Your Creativity
What To Do When You've Lost Your Creativity When you are a creative person, feeling that you've lost your creativity is horrible. When that well of ideas that so often seems to be bubbling over dries up. When you have nothing. Not a single idea. If this is you, don't worry. It happens to all of us from time to time and it's usually only temporary. Your creativity is not lost forever, it's just taken itself off for a nap. Here ... Read the Post...
