handmade by mary emmens
Pin It Or maybe the title should be ‘How to make a pirate patch in less than 10 minutes’! Leah had been invited to her friend’s 5th birthday party, on Sunday morning just a few hours before the party I … Read More »
The raglan t-shirt that I made for Mathias last week has now been embellished… First though thanks to Karen (one of the book authors) for her helpful comments on Flickr, I now know that when using old knits you should … Read More »
I had a tip off the weekend before Christmas about a bin liner of fabric which had been left at the charity shop by Claire, not wanting to miss out I popped in to see what delights were in store. … Read More »
Both of Tobits’ sisters had babies last year and I planned to make both of the babies soft books for Christmas. Knowing that I was going to be busy in the run up to Christmas I was incredibly organised and … Read More »
Do you pin your fabric while you’re sewing? Sometimes, quite often in fact I wing it! It does of course depend on what and sewing and who for but sometimes I love the freedom of just holding the fabric together … Read More »
It’s true at the beginning of December I had a birthday! It almost passed me by. I actually spent the day doing 2 fairs back to back (read more about those here)! Fortunately my wonderful husband took the 2 days … Read More »
It’s the last day of the school holidays, Tobit has gone back to work, we are all still in our pyjamas AND the chidren are playing really nicely together upstairs. So I’m slipping in a quick blog post! Last week … Read More »
Happy New Year to you, I’d love to do a review of the last year, thoughts about the next but can’t really be bothered! If you are interested to know what I did last year you can read about it … Read More »