I Quilt. I Sew. I Craft. Join Me!
After sharing my Padded Seat Belt Cover post last week, I got a lot of messages asking how to make these. Today I’m going to share how I made mine, plus show you a second one I made out of gorgeous Umbrella Prints fabric for the Trimmings Competition. Umbrella Prints make printed organic fabric and [...]
Mother’s Day is coming and there are some fantastic ideas around the Blogosphere for gifts to make for Mum. Today I have a collection of gorgeous cushions that you could make from the free tutorials. Click on the pictures or the links to find the instructions. {Applique cushion from Anna Joyce on the Design Sponge} {Cushion with [...]
When I was pregnant with my first baby, I was sure I needed a rocking chair. I had lovely pictures in my head of rocking them to sleep, and reading them stories as they grew. So CraftyDaddy dutifully bought me a glider rocker and I loved it. Later it sat in Baby #2′s room and [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how to make the first part of my Kids Kitchen Set – the tea towel and the pot holders. Today we’re going to make the apron with the remaining pieces to finish the set. What You Need One apron – the kind that has a loop around the neck as well [...]
My Little Miss is a bookworm and a writer. She would happily spend ages writing little notes in a book or pretending to be a secretary. When we go somewhere that she needs to take a little something to do, she inevitably grabs a notebook and pencil case. A while back I saw what I [...]
This time of the year seems to involve lots of gifts. There are teacher gifts as school finishes for the year, the usual string of birthday parties and Christmas looming in the next few weeks. So these gift bags were a timely project. My friend Angela from Belle Images needed a little something for photo [...]
Do you wear a Christmas apron for Christmas cooking? I haven’t in the past but I just might have to this year! This lovely surprise was tucked into a parcel of fabric I ordered recently from Wrapped in Fabric. After having so much fun making up the Riley Blake doll panel, this panel looked like [...]
This Giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Susan, Rebecca, Annaleis, Susanne and Pam. Last year I made Christmas bunting from fabric when I missed out on buying the special printed panels in stores. This year I grabbed the panels as soon as I spotted them! Then inspiration hit and I decided to make mini bunting [...]
I’ve got some travel coming up – exciting! I’m heading to the ProBlogger Training Event later in the week and then I’m off to teach at Creative Craft Retreat at the end of the month. At Retreat we always try to wear name tags of some kind for people to get to know everyone and [...]
My kids each have a quilt that sits on their bed and this is the one that I made for Mr Happy. It is called an I Spy Quilt because there is a collection of novelty prints that encourage kids to look for things or play “I Spy” with it. It is bright and colourful [...]
