handmade by mary emmens
Look what the postman delivered yesterday: A thank you gift from the lovely Ellen of the long thread. You might know she’s working on another book and I helped her out with a little bit of pattern testing. So not … Read More »
So despite the general view that August is a summer month here in the UK it didn’t feel much like it. I think I made it to two car boot sales and a couple of rummages in the charity shops: … Read More »
It’s been quiet here on the blog, I’ve been having a bit of a break, looking after the children, doing ‘stuff’ and not being motivated or inspired to sew or blog very much. Anyway back in March we made a … Read More »
I haven’t mentioned that a few weeks ago at the car boot Kerry told me that she had a box of fabric in the boot of her car that she had bought previously at the car boot, she’d taken out … Read More »
Last week the children and my husband were all at home, the girls had swimming lesson every morning, we (yes all of us) got involved in toilet training Mathias and it rained most of the week. So there wasn’t much … Read More »
Last month I saw that Trish at Two Peas In A Pod Design was looking for bloggers to choose one of her patterns to review and I jumped at the chance. I had a browse through Trish’s etsy shop and … Read More »
I’ve been wanting to sew something fun but had too much to do, pieces of work that need completing and plans that need to be made, I also had a first birthday gift to think about. On Monday an email … Read More »
Last week I signed up to Amy’s challenge, obviously I was tired at the time of signing up because I said that there were 2 things I wanted to get done this week – surely the title of the challenge … Read More »
It’s felt like a scarce month, the first weekend I was away in London at FQ Retreat so had to miss the car boot – but I think it was definitely worth it and it was really wet the car … Read More »
Since attending a frame purse workshop at the FQ Retreat, I’ve become slightly obsessed/addicted. I made this one yesterday: I drew my own pattern using the frame I had as a starting point and then made the fabric portion using … Read More »