Why buy stuff when you can spend much more time and money making it yourself?
I’m fully in the swing of it now! It’s definitely Christmas time and I am off work for what will be my longest festive vacation in 6 years. So of course I mostly want to do crafts – while everyone else is still slogging their guts out in the office I want to be making chocolates … Continue reading Inescapable Christmas crafting
My Etsy shop is growing! Very slowly. It takes me hours to put items up there! Is that normal or am I fannying about? Dallying with photos and rephrasing tiny pieces of text probably. But it is fun :) And I have sold a cushion! Plus two out of the three pairs of baby shoes … Continue reading Upcycled cushions
Amy’s christmas present is done and given. I’ve been dying to put progress photos of this on Instagram, but then the festive surprise would’ve been somewhat spoilt. But here you have it, retrospectively step by step. This was a Sue Hawkins kit that I bought at the Ally Pally knitting and stitching show this year. At … Continue reading Tiny shed scissor keeper
My lovely friend Lauren has been a big fan of the embroideries I’ve been doing lately, and she’s requested one of her own for Christmas. So this weekend I got the fear and figured I should get a shift on with that. So here’s the work so far. I’m quite pleased, although I wish I’d … Continue reading Christmas present progress
I’m pleased with how this turned out :) I traced out the basics of a photo onto graph paper and added the block colour. I started out following it literally as a chart in a normal scale cross stitch, but it just looked terrible, far too tiny. So I started over, with bigger crosses and … Continue reading Pink Hair, Red Knickers embroidery
All things Margaret Howell are always supremely beautiful, but this series of photographs is extra lovely. Really gorgeous shots of their exquisite tailoring and Italian production: http://www.margarethowell.co.uk/collections/women/autumn-winter-2013-campaign/ Continue reading Margaret Howell
For months I’ve been groping this half metre of Liberty cotton. I love it, and true love waits… For an idea that is, and with my cushion obsession in full flow there was no fighting it. I came across some matt white grossgrain at which which there was plenty of and no-one would miss :) … Continue reading Liberty print cushion cover
