Craft Blog

I love the way the crafting community on the internet takes an idea and just runs with it. One simple tutorial can evolve into so many different imaginings as each crafter gives their twist on an original idea. (And maybe I’m also a little biased on this one because it’s so exciting to find a [...]

Easter is coming, which means we all have an excuse to make bunny plushies to stuff into Easter baskets. Below are some of my favourite bunny patterns and tutorials for you to sew up. Wabbit by Yoonie – Great twist on the more traditional rabbits you’d find in Easter hampers, I can really see this [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My eldest son has just discovered “The Owl That Was Afraid Of The Dark” by Jill Tomlinson. It’s a wonderful book, and was one of my favourites growing up, but it has now lead to something of an Owl fixation and he’s asking for a softie. So I have scoured the internet high and low [...]

You know, I bashed about some other titles for this post, along the lines of “gone cold on ideas for fabric”, lots of chilly references and at one point even a bear pun, but they just didn’t work, I fear I’m losing my knack! A couple of days ago my neighbour popped around and threw [...]

My eldest son is obsessed with “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, at barely two he can recite the entire thing from memory, from Eric Carle’s awesome fabric line we now have cushions, aprons and even some pants with his artwork on. So now that he can sleep on it, cook in it and wear it, what [...]

BurdaStyle announced this morning that they will be charging for the “official” patterns on their site, save for the basics and some smaller projects. As part of our plan to grow BurdaStyle and to better serve our members we will need to start charging for some of our patterns. BurdaStyle patterns developed from contest winners [...]