Category: Fabric & Sewing

Can you resist collecting fabric scraps and dreaming up soft, cozy projects to create by the sewing machine, or by hand? I can’t. Hand Sewing is meditative and calming to me. I embrace (or hoard?) these soft art materials as well as buttons and beads… because I can’t resist!

The World’s Sweetest Needle book – process videos

I wanted to sew my own version of Ann Wood’s free sewing pattern World’s Sweetest Needle book. It took a while,…

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing

Book review: Freestyle Color Collage Quilting by Carly Mul

Here’s my review of Carly Mul’s book Freestyle Color Collage Quilting: A Unique Method for Creating Bold Designs with Fabric, that…

Fabric & Sewing/Inspiration/Read a book

My First Textile Book of Scraps

Today I am sharing all the pages of a book project that falls (to me) in the category of “book art”….

Creativity & Life/Textile Art/Thrift & Recycle

Green hexagon flowers on a tote bag

With the tote bag for myself, I did the same as I did with the blue hexagon tote that I gave…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

The blue hexagon tote bag

One of my craft projects this year was to cover up the printed logo on a simple, white tote that I…

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Our bunny Luna Lapin as a true fashionista

As soon as any Luna bunny gets her head sewn straight on, she decides that she is a bit of a…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing

Down the rabbit hole with Luna Lapin softies

Oh my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late! […] For a very important date! No time to say…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing

Something soothingly soft to stitch

In the beginning of summer I made a few little fabric collages to stitch together. I wanted something soothingly soft to…

Creativity & Life/Textile Art

Mend in March: Jeans

By shear coincidence I found some sewing inspirations on instagram when I came upon the hashtag “Mend March”, invented by Kate…

Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Embroidered Junk Journal Covers

I love creating patchwork collages both with papers and fabrics. In this post I will show you two textile art pieces…

Textile Art

Book review of Mending Matters by Rodabaugh

Katarina Rodabaugh’s book “Mending matters” is a practical book with loads of project pages showing you different ways to patch and…

Fabric & Sewing/Read a book

Creating textile book pages

Update on the iHanna Journal of Stitchery that I started in January. Each month we’ve been given two themes to play…

Fabric & Sewing