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From Russia, via Leigh-on-sea with Love - the Matryoshka Skittle Tutorial

OK, dear reader you know that above everything I am totally honest with you... and today I publish one of six skittles to go with the Pentagon ball for tots. So what inspired this... was it the...

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The Pentagon Balls Up? Or the Patchwork Ball Tutorial

Right everyone, it has been a little while since we made anything so I thought a little bit of hand sewing would be a gentle re-introduction, as well as learning a new technique - English piecing -...

May 12, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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Colours, Loose Ends and Kaffe Fassett

A couple of weekends ago, I woke up and thought, I have nothing planned for the day... what can I do, and then it hit me - "A Life in Colour" , the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the Fashion and...

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Happy Easter!

Hope that everyone is up to their bunny ears in chocolate eggs this weekend! So far this weekend, I have finished a sock, have a half finished bunny sitting on the ironing board and am joined at...

Mar 31, 2013 Like

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Pip and Squeak... and a Farewell to a Consumate Seamstress

Say hello to Pip and Squeak who were finished today. Yes, I know this is yet another set of Easter bunnies, but I have had this pattern lurking in my must do pile for a couple of years and just...

Mar 17, 2013 Like

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I am about to turn militant .. agan!

Do you have a mental list of favourite smells and feels... I do. When I win the lottery I will have fresh sheets every day and should I take an afternoon nap, then the staff will iron them before I...

Mar 12, 2013 Like

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Rabbit, Rabbit, Bunny, Bunny

Recently I have made a couple of rabbits for friends for Easter... The one I finished this morning is a Tilda pattern, am not sure about the nose as I think it looks a little canine but I know that...

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Here's to the Whistleblowers!

I don’t often write really serious stuff on here, so no pictures in this post, but after listening to the news this morning and reading the papers, something struck me… whatever happened to...

Feb 7, 2013 Like

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What's in a name?

We were talking about names today... it seems that everyone in my office is called Linda... different ages, so no rhyme or reason... although at school we had four Susans, how Bunty like is that?...

Jan 30, 2013 Like

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Tales of Woe with Happy endings - Afghan Begins

The quilt has to be delayed as my special wadding has been delivered to the wrong place *stares hard at suspects near Barlow and Fields* I had arranged for it to be delivered to my local coffee...

Jan 20, 2013 Like

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The Big Projects for 2013 - You can do it!

Happy New Year everybody and welcome back! This year I am challenging you and me for that matter to make something a little bit bigger than our usual Sunday project, we are going to make two...

Jan 6, 2013 Like

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Cecelia's Scrap Pattern as made by Annette (The Big Sister)

This is my sister Annette, she is modelling a scrap or maybe it is a wrarf (as it is a combo scarf / wrap) that she created for our friend Cecelia. Cecelia is one of the knit and natter ladies who...

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Post Christmas Update

Well I hope you are all basking in the afterglow of Christmas and wondering why you got so worried, and trying to work out where you will put those Christmas presents. So firstly, here is a little...

Dec 28, 2012 Like

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Where have you been?

Right, I owe you all an apology... I know I have not been here and this is part of the reason: Can you spot me... I thought I blended in rather well! With my mate, Sally, we ran a rather great...

Dec 16, 2012 Like

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Straighten Your Seams - The Christmas Stocking Tutorial

I don't know about you but one of my most fave childhood Christmas memories was waking up in the early hours feeling the weight on your feet and knowing that Father Christmas had been, filled your...

Nov 11, 2012 Like

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Stuff The Bunting Christmas Tree Tutorial

Our local fabric shop... the wonderful Belle Fabrics (who still do not have a website... grrr!) had a version of this tree in the window, so with their permission I used it as a starting point for...

Nov 6, 2012 Like

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Stripped Bare for Christmas Action - More Quilted Tree Decs

Back in July we made a cushion to celebrate the Fourth of July, so using the same technique we are going to create some more great quilted decorations to fill your tree. Yet again we are going to...

Oct 29, 2012 Like

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The How to Write a Tutorial, Tutorial

For the last 18 months or so, I have written a weekly tutorial and a number of people have said, “Wow, I could never do that, I just wouldn’t know where to start.” Well that is stuff and nonsense,...

Oct 20, 2012 Like

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OMG... How much?

Right, this year for the first time in ages, we are not going to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Ally Pally. There are a couple of reasons for this, am not sure if I mentioned it but recently both...

Oct 11, 2012 Like

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Countdown to Christmas - An Advent Chest of Drawers

I am typing this with sticky fingers, so any typos you see are due to my fingers not leaving the keys... Right so I have found my Christmas making mojo (it was hidden behind last year's Christmas...

Oct 7, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Scrapping about

Made these elephants from scraps from the kid's dresses I made recently, popped a pic up on Facebook and a chum in Germany asked if I would make one for her... so I got up early this morning and...

Sep 30, 2012 Like

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So it isn't only me, then...

About a week ago, I read a really interesting blog post about errors in craft books and over the years I, too have come across these. However, recently I am discovering more and more of these but...

Sep 28, 2012 Like

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Great Scot! She's wearing her Sunday Best...

Can I ask, did you have a Sunday best dress? I had several throughout my childhood, they were split between Summer and Winter, back in the days when the return to school in September meant the...

Sep 20, 2012 Like

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Here's my marker...

OK, team... this week's tutorial is not yet completed so it will be going up later this week. However, just to show that I have not been slacking I managed to put together Harrison, the reindeer....

Sep 17, 2012 Like

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Little things please...

Over the last week I have been making some little outfits for friend's children, I really enjoy making for kids as they are made so quickly. Also it gives me an excuse to pop into the wonderful...

Sep 13, 2012 Like

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No Sew Quilted Ball - Christmas Tutorial No 3

I have noticed recently that when I post up tutorials, people post that although they like it, they cannot sew, knit or crochet... so this week, you have no excuse all you need to do is sew and...

Sep 10, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Everything happens in threes...

I don't know about you, but it always seems to me that everything happens in threes... you break a plate and then, the cup and saucer. You hear a couple of pieces of bad news and you sit on...

Sep 8, 2012 Like

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Win, Win, Win - The Love and Kisses Cushion Christmas Tutorial

I am just a bit excited, last week I got a package through the post... it contained three balls of Debbie Bliss Donegal Tweed Luxury Aran. A couple of weeks ago, there was a post on Totally...

Sep 2, 2012 Like

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Christmas Tutorials Start Here - Chris's Patchwork Decorations

OK, can you believe four months today Christmas Day will be over? We started a Christmas countdown at this time last year, so throughout the year I have been collecting ideas (and discarding them,...

Aug 26, 2012 Like

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From Russia, via Leigh-on-sea with Love - the Matryoshka Skittle Tutorial

The Pentagon Balls Up? Or the Patchwork Ball Tutorial

Colours, Loose Ends and Kaffe Fassett

Happy Easter!

Pip and Squeak... and a Farewell to a Consumate Seamstress

I am about to turn militant .. agan!

Rabbit, Rabbit, Bunny, Bunny

Here's to the Whistleblowers!

What's in a name?

Tales of Woe with Happy endings - Afghan Begins

The Big Projects for 2013 - You can do it!

Cecelia's Scrap Pattern as made by Annette (The Big Sister)

Post Christmas Update

Where have you been?

Straighten Your Seams - The Christmas Stocking Tutorial

Stuff The Bunting Christmas Tree Tutorial

Stripped Bare for Christmas Action - More Quilted Tree Decs

The How to Write a Tutorial, Tutorial

OMG... How much?

Countdown to Christmas - An Advent Chest of Drawers

Scrapping about

So it isn't only me, then...

Great Scot! She's wearing her Sunday Best...

Here's my marker...

Little things please...

No Sew Quilted Ball - Christmas Tutorial No 3

Everything happens in threes...

Win, Win, Win - The Love and Kisses Cushion Christmas Tutorial

Christmas Tutorials Start Here - Chris's Patchwork Decorations

Every Gold Medal Winner Started with One of These - The PE Bag Tutorial

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