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Flower clips

Ages ago, July to be exact, I received lots of packets of acrylic flowers, clips and brooches to start whipping up some Spring jewellery. As Winter dragged on and on these flowers ended up in a  ...

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My Creative Space

I’m going to my cousin’s wedding in a few weekends time. The original intent was to make a dress to wear, but I’m finding the fabric selections at my nearest large fabric shop really boring.- I  ...

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Stash busting

Can I show you something?   This is my craft room at present. Scary! Now these photos are great if you want to play ‘find the hidden object’ for example; Photo one can you find: a cat a  ...

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New skirt!

So far my August Creative Blitz has fallen flat on it’s face thanks to this silly cold, but I did manage to whip up a skirt just now. No pattern and finished in under an hour! The fabric was on  ...

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Urgh!

My sister made a nice dress last week with some Alannah Hill fabric. She had some spare and thought I might get a skirt out of it. There was actually enough for a dress, so I set about cutting  ...

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Quilt decisions

Last night I set about cutting a pile of Wee Play charm squares in half to fit the vision I had of a table topper for the kitchen table. Not long after I started arranging them I could see my  ...

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Quilt beginnings

Some of the fabrics for various quilt projects drying now- almost ready for cutting! I’m pretty inspired and keen to get started on the various quilts/throw ‘quilts’ I have planned and I have a  ...

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