My top 5 tips to find your sewjo again!
You know the feeling. The WIP piles (yes, that was meant to be a plural) keep growing. Deadlines are looming. The sewing room is a mess (ok, so that's a given). All you want to do is close the door and pretend it's not...
Upcycled and Homemade Midwife Gifts
Want to put your vintage finds to good use? Mix up a batch of your favourite cookies and give them away! I recently gifted these vintage platters and tea cup set with some homemade Greek shortbread (Kourambiethes) to my lovely...
Tilda Harvest | The ‘Lovebird’ Quilt
It's my day on the Tilda Harvest blog hop! I'm so pleased to have the opportunity to sew with Tilda fabric. I have been a huge fan of the Tilda brand for a while. Tone's style really appealed to me when I first started...
Christmas in July | Modern Metallic by Makower
I need to preface this post with the confession that I am not the most Christmassy person. It has taken me a number of years to really get into doing the Christmas celebration thing (I blame too many years working in retail!)...
School holidays | Baking Gingerbread with Rose
Ours didn't quite turn out like the ones in the picture below, but for the first time I can say I enjoyed cooking with my offspring. There were no eggshells in the batter or flour on the floor, and she read the recipe herself....
Baby Leo
Baby Leo - aka Leo David Grundy, born on the 19th May 2017, some time after 11 o'clock in the morning, weighing 2910g or 6lb 7oz. Currently learning to put up with constant adoration and cuddles from Lewis, unintended (I...
Tilda Circus | The ‘Spin’ Quilt
It's always a pleasure to be able to work with a new fabric collection before it's released. I find it to be a very inspiring exercise, and particularly so with Tilda's latest collection, 'Circus'. There are so many things...
Little Easter Chickens | Free embroidery pattern
It has only taken me a very. long. time. to get this free Easter embroidery pattern finished and ready for you to use. Everything seems to be taking a very long time at the moment. Including this pregnancy. Although, when I...
The Impasse Cushion Cover | A Free Pattern
This cushion cover design reminds me of a bird's eye view of a city in peak hour. So that's why I called it 'Impasse', because no one is going anywhere! It's a simple pattern, designed to use up some of your beloved scraps. My...
