This was one of those ideas so clever that I was immediately inspired and so easy that I thought, why have I never thought to do this?! Thanks to Vicky @Sewstainability for thinking of this and Joy from Pink Coat Club for drawing my attention to it. So I’m taking a look at the clothes…
Tag: crafting
Eat, Drink, Sleep Sew
I have been extremely busy sewing, sticking and stamping over the past few weeks getting ready for Christmas markets! My next one is this Saturday 16th November at Rosslyn Hill Chapel in Hampstead and I will be selling Christmas cards, decorations, stocking fillers including new bracelet designs, buttons and badges, and gifts including tote bags…
‘Tis the season to be sewing
With less than 60 days until Christmas, I think it is perfectly acceptable to start listening to Christmas music (something I am constantly trying to convince people, myself included). But it is most certainly about time for some Christmas crafting. I have been preparing some new designs for Kate Eva Designs this year including Christmas…
Blogiversary!
I completely forgot about my Blogiversary at the beginning of this month because I was too busy celebrating my own Birthday in Dorset and then in Bath! However to commemorate the first year of my little blog I thought I would make some cards inspired by my trip. I saw this amazing window display in…
Happy Father’s Day
So Father's Day is next Sunday and I have begun making cards for the occasion. Dads are notoriously hard to buy for but I figured that everyone loves a tacky shirt, right? I used an Origami technique to fold the shirts and ironed them as I went to keep folds in place. I then stitched…
Postal Stripes
So Paul Smith are opening a new store in London's Beak Street and, to celebrate, have a competition to design an envelope to feature on the wall of the shop. When my friend told me about the competition, I decided to design an envelope in the style of my hand sewn bunting cards. I cut…
So Sew
So I decided it was definitely time to perfect my sewing machine skills after watching The Great British Sewing Bee and being inspired by the amazing Ann!I thought I'd start simple with some cushion covers and where better to begin than going fabric shopping at Liberty London? By the time I'd threaded the machine and pinned…