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!

Making Luna Lapin – a book by Sarah Peel

Last year my mom (who loves sewing and quilting) bought the book Making Luna Lapin by Sarah Peel, and we got…

Book Inspiration/Fabric & Sewing

You’ve gotta have Moxy

Moxy is definitely not a word I learned in school when the English language was on the curriculum… But when I…

Creative People/Textile Art

Don’t go breaking my Beaded Heart now

A beaded heart I made, part of a recent embroidery exhibition. A Beaded Heart The reason for this was a heart…

Textile Art

Always try New Things

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right? Michelle Obama This weekend…

Creative People/Fabric & Sewing

The Embroidered Heart and the Fear of Failure

I love the beautiful symbol of love and its many pains; the heart. I’ve been obsessed with the heart shape for…

Crafts/Creativity & Life/Textile Art

Embroidery Workshop | How to stitch a Heart – with LOVE

This weekend I sent out a Newsletter announcing that my darling embroidery workshop Stitch with Love, is up for grabs! I…

Fabric & Sewing/Mixed Media Experiments/Textile Art

A look at our Embroidery Exhibition

Did you know I do embroidery too? I love free form embroidery a lot. And what I usually call mixed media…

Textile Art

When you just HAVE to make something

You know that feeling you get sometimes, that you just have to make something? The creative urge hits, and you simply…

Fabric & Sewing

The Purple Table Runner

I’ve sewn together a very easy table runner for a friend of mine. I still adore the table runner we’ve got…

Fabric & Sewing

Quilting | Sewing a Polka Dot Table Runner

Quilting – the act of cutting perfectly good fabric into little pieces and then sewing them back together again. iHanna Quilters…

Fabric & Sewing/Home Comforts

My New Hand Bound Art Journal with Embroidered Cover

I am a big fan of art journaling as many of you know. But with the swap taking up my time…

Art journaling/Bookbinding/Textile Art

Video Tutorials | How to Make Fabric Postcards

Fabric Postcards are fascinating to me, maybe because they’re a bit more unusual than DIY postcards made from regular paper? I…

Fabric & Sewing/Mail bliss