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Red String Quilt

Thursday, March 18, 2010 20:52 1 Comment

I quilted and bound Connor’s red string quilt a few days ago. Echo stitching around the block seams the same as his brother’s version and bound in the same fabric. I ended up using some flannelette from my stash, a bright blue with skulls and crossbones on it.

The flannelette I backed it with wasn’t pre-washed [...]

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String Inspiration

Monday, March 15, 2010 22:18 3 Comments

1. It’s very pink, 2. Pink Strings top, 3. string, 4. Spiderweb trial block 1 for my month of Spiderweb Bee, 5. String Quilt Pillow, 6. Spider Web Quilt in Progress, 7. “a little help from my friends” top completed, 8. colorful string quilt, 9. black white + green string baby quilt front, 10. string [...]

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Cheater’s Covered Button Tutorial

Monday, March 15, 2010 8:54 3 Comments

I love the look of covered buttons, but I don’t use them often enough to really justify buying a button covering tool. This is how I cover my buttons, it takes a little more time that the tool, but if you’re only doing them occasionally it saves you spending money on another crafting gadget.
You’ll Need:

Shank [...]

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String Quilt Love

Friday, March 12, 2010 19:25 4 Comments

Remember my string block tutorial*? I started that quilt in may of 2008, Declan was just over a year old and I had barely finished the top when he swiped it off me, dubbed it “The Patchwork Blanket” and never gave it back. That poor quilt top has been abused beyond measure since then. It [...]

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Robyn’s Mini Quilt Sneak Peak

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 18:45 5 Comments

In the last few weeks of pregnancy I finally decided to a theme for the cot set I planned on making for our third babe. Black and white prints from Northcott mixed in with tone on tone blue and orange prints if it was a boy, and a tiny pink leopard print if I ended [...]

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What I Create – Week 3

Sunday, January 24, 2010 16:54 No Comments

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 [...]

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Ridiculously Easy Camera Strap Tutorial

Thursday, January 14, 2010 13:11 5 Comments

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 [...]

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What I Create – Week One

Saturday, January 9, 2010 18:07 3 Comments

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 [...]

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LogCabin Quilt In A Week – Day Two: Constructing The Blocks

Saturday, January 2, 2010 10:32 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Selvedge NeedleBook Tutorial

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:43 8 Comments

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 [...]

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