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Sewing the seeds of love.

goodpurlgonebad:Today is Reflections Day at Sew Grateful. The most recent influences on my sewing have without doubt been the joyous, determined and skilled inhabitants of my Blogloving feed. English...

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Sew Grateful Giveaway winners

And the winners are… Tara Gries, EmSewCrazy, Laurie and Meri, who should all have emails in their inboxes or spam boxes! Congratulations to you all. Thank you to everyone who took the time to comment,...

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Blinding binding & mighty mitres

I’m on the home stretch with the Things that Matter quilt. On Friday and Saturday I made the “blinding” as B calls it, and machine stitched one side of it to the quilt. The present job, in between...

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All done bar the crinkling.

The Things That Matter quilt is pieced, backed, trimmed, quilted, bound and labelled. The girl secured her Gold Mathletics award whilst I was sewing the label on today and promptly reminded me that I...

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Desperately seeking unfussy knit patterns for kids

I think it started with Tilly’s lovely Coco dress for grown-ups. Or it might have been the summer Boden frocks, though I could do without the applique. Or possibly the need to replace some M&S...

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What’s new, pussycats?

As Sir Tom might have sung, had he been a blogger. Let’s see…. First off, massive Thanks to everyone who provided such great pattern suggestions in response to my last post. My current project is to...

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Do I need an overlocker?

This question popped up in my Twitter feed yesterday (thanks @pansipotter999) and after talking her out of, then into one, I was reminded that I wanted to write a blog post on this subject. I did a lot...

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Kermit the frock (By Hand London Anna)

Finally, it’s done. The pattern is the By Hand London Anna dress gifted to me by my sister, the fabric is a green bubble cotton bought from Stone Fabrics last year. It feels like a cross between...

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Hello, it’s been a while…

In 2015 I started a degree course in photography, by distance learning and gradually stopped finding time to craft. My Juki’s been waiting at least a year for me to get a relatively simple repair done....

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Year of Projects

I’m signed back up to Year of Projects on Ravelry, here’s the link: https://www.ravelry.com/groups/a-year-of-projects My recovery wrap is underway. We stopped at the yarn shop on the way back from...

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