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!

Fabulous Fabric Scraps

I’ve been sewing this week, and intend to do a bit more before July ends. Inspired by my own fabric stash,…

Fabric & Sewing

Quilt Improv by Lucie Summers – a book review

I don’t like following patterns even though I sometimes do, to learn something new. I prefer to freestyle my projects. I…

Book Inspiration/Fabric & Sewing

A Map to the Unknown

Embroidered artist trading card. A Map to the unknown. I am till stitching stuff. But a Map to the unknown –…

Textile Art

The Urge to Sew Scrappy Pouches

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Marianne Williamson I love…

Fabric & Sewing

Outside the box Cross Stitching

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore…

Textile Art

Recycled Wool Owl & Long Lists

What is not started will never get finished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do you have a list of things that you…

Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Sewing a very red Owl Tote

Red is such a beautiful, strong colour. I love red, but sometimes, in my passion for pink and turquoise, I forget…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing

Handmade Campervan Bowling Bags

Even better than collecting fabric in transparent boxes is using that fabric to create everyday objects. In that way you get…

Fabric & Sewing

DIY Skirt with a lot of Embroidery

Happy World Embroidery Day today! Whether you are celebrating with stitching on an old embroidery project or starting a brand new…

Fabric & Sewing

I love Vintage Bed Linen Fabric

I can have such huge sewing cravings, where I long to handle and patch together fabric. But because I do so…

Fabric & Sewing

Pillow with Kantha Embroidery

Kantha is a type of embroidery, popular in West Bengal. It consists of a simple running stitch and it is popular…

Fabric & Sewing

Craft Project | Embroidered Heart

Who doesn’t want (and need!) a stuffed heart of their own? I think everyone needs such a thing, as a reminder…

Fabric & Sewing