Craft Blog

Only a mild fail this week with a canvas that went wrong, making this week officially better than the previous one!

I’ve been wanting to make up some silhouettes of the boys for a few months now, but I rarely visit the paper section of any craft stores and so kept on forgetting to pick up [...]

My lovely friend Shanni showed off her new camera strap the other day and I was instantly jealous. I have no idea why it had never occured to me to cover up the big chunk of black with “EOS” written all over it, so, inspired by Shanni’s purchase, I set about giving my camera strap [...]

I make a lot of little bits and pieces that don’t tend to make it on to the blog, I’m not entirely sure why, particularly as some of my quickest and simplest tutorials (The Notebook Cover Tutorial and The Pincushion Tutorial) end up being the most popular, but this year I intend to bring an [...]

So far you will have completed Step One – Cutting. Step Two covers the construction of the off centre/wonky logcabin blocks.
This is probably the most sewing intensive step of the week, from start to finish it took me about five hours to make 30 blocks, so you’ll want to set aside a good portion of [...]

I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this before Christmas as a gift for my crafty Mum, it’s so easy, took about half an hour to whip up and the finished result is awesome. So if you need a place to keep stray needles and have a few selvedges laying around, read on!
Apologies in advance [...]

After all the interest in Declan’s Log Cabin quilt I’ve decided to make Connor’s quilt a community project. For the next few weeks I will be outlining one step a day to lead you to the finished quilt.
The entire project can be done within a weekend, but as a busy Mum I know there is [...]

I’m trying to get up a Christmas tutorial post but I’m battling with the formatting, so that might have to wait till tomorrow I’m afraid.
Instead I’m going to give you something inspired by a recent post over at CraftStylish asking Where Do You Find Sewing Advice?
We all have go-to people or reference books to help [...]

I’m crazy happy about finishing this little beauty up over the weekend. I ended up taking the time to hand sew the binding and it was very much worth the effort, it’s far more precise than I could have ever managed on my machine and some hand sewing in front of some movies (Welcome To [...]

I spent the majority of yesterday standing at the kitchen counter sewing whilst occasionally playing referee between the boys and letting them watch more movies than I should probably admit to. I have no idea what possessed me to get started on a quilt on a day where my eldest wasn’t in preschool, but, lets [...]

We have a rental inspection tomorrow, so of course when the kids went down for their nap I got stuck into making the kitchen spotless and making my home sparkle so we don’t get booted out.

Not a chance! All my good intentions of cleaning went out the window and instead I sat down on my [...]