This is one of those projects that I’ve had in my head for months now and it just feels so good to finally get it done! This was originally destined for the glider that lives in my sewing room, but the boys have fallen in love with the texture on the chenille and I keep on finding that it’s made its way into their room. The chenille is quick to sew up, but takes a while to fluff – it’s [...]

Yesterday I was searching Pinterest in search of new rainbow themed tutorials to link up to and stumbled on to this beautiful little rainbow sunshine soft toy from Holly at Chez Beeper. As soon as Ronan fell asleep this afternoon (which took a while because this kid has got some serious grumps going on!) I stitched together a sunshiney version with yellow minky and orange and yellow ribbons. No face to speak of yet. I’m hoping to grab half an [...]

Not long before Christmas I picked up a small ironing board at a garage sale for the grand total of $1, it was the perfect size for bringing into the kitchen and ironing on the worktop whilst I watch the kids (Or more truthfully, for when I’ve piled fabric on top of the full size ironing board in my sewing room and I’m forced to start moving stuff into the rest of the house to have space to actually create, [...]

Stop the press guys… A while back I pinned this super cute romper from Erin at Lemon Tree Creations, with the promise that if Hercules was a boy, I would be making it for his Christmas outfit. Turns out that Herc was Ronan, and so it was time to get stuck into my Christmassy fabrics. (and FYI, if Herc had been a girl, I would have been making this sunsuit from Made By Rae in Michael Miller’s Yule Critters in [...]

Another new craft book to review, thank you to my lovely friends at Penguin Australia. This time around it’s the English Translation of Happy Homemade Vol. 1 – Treasured Collection by Yoshiko Tsukiori, originally printed in Japanese for Japanese sizing, Penguin have translated the book and adapted the patterns to fit Australian sizes 6-16 whilst keeping the Japanese aesthetic that is so popular at the moment. The clothing within are all casual women’s outfits and it comes with full size [...]

Kara from Craftastical has created and shared her first embroidery pattern, a beautiful collection of paisley designs, perfect for adding to tea towels, pillows or as sweet embellishments on a skirt – I think they’d look awesome on some natural linen, especially in the bright yellow that Kara chose to use. I can’t wait to see what the final project is going to look like! Download the embroidery patterns here. The book that started my love for embroidered Paisley – [...]

I spotted this stitchable iPhone case whilst wondering around Pinterest a few days ago and fell in love with its simplicity and awesomeness, but at the same time, winced a little at the price (+ postage to Australia) and wondered how the stitches would hold up in my handbag, which inevitably seems to collect pencil leads (I only ever carry pens in there) and gummy sweets at the bottom, leaving pretty much everything that enters there covered in a sticky [...]

One of my favourite things from Connor’s hungry caterpillar birthday celebration was the little matching party hats I made up for him and his brother, let me refresh your memory with a very bored looking birthday boy… (Connor is 3 going on 13, he has already decided he is far too cool to have people sing “Happy Birthday” to him) The hats are great if you’re fed up of buying party hats that rarely last the day or to add [...]

Look what I finished up last night! The quilt top that is, not the baby – he/she still has a couple of months to go, which is a good thing, because I am so unprepared for baby day and Christmas falling on the same month, not helped of course by having a six week window in which Hercules could arrive. The top isn’t officially finished yet, there is still a little appliqué to go, but I know that’s going to [...]

I first spotted this pattern over at Living With Punks, Susan made an awesome version in Michael Miller’s groovy guitar fabric and I fell in love. Of course, I wasn’t so in love that I bought it straight away, instead I fussed about for six months, staring at it on Etsy about once a fortnight and daring myself to give it a go. I know I’ve said it before, but I’m not a clothes seamstress. I can make a quilt [...]