All Blog Posts Tagged 'sewing' (27)

My name is Lynn Smith and although I currently have to work full-time, all my passion and spare time is poured into my little bear business.  Up until July 2011 I had never attempted to create anything with a needle and thread... I knew that I just couldn't sew. Although I love all things textile (and almost went to the Scottish textile college) I just thought that only terribly clever people could sew. I have always been what some may call 'arty farty' and I am good at drawing and painting…

After lots of stitching, writing, and proofing, my new wallet sewing pattern is here! More details over on my…

Hi, I've quite ridiculously got butterflies (or flutter-by's as my 3 year old daughter calls them) typing this as not only have I only just set up my blog Grace's Favours (as in, there's only 2 posts on there!) I've also not got involved in the UK Handmade forums before and in fact, if I'm being completely honest, I've only been designing and making things since August 2011!

So I suppose what I'm trying to…

Come and see I Love Red at East Morton Institute, West Yorkshire on Sunday 5th February.

I've sewn a little coin purse and blogged about it at www.bluekilnbeads.blogspot.com…

http://missgmrsb.blogspot.com/2011/09/scented-cushions-nearly-finished.html

A short post about my new…

My latest blog post- http://missgmrsb.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-top-5-crafty-sewing-tools-before.html

The sewing equipment I use every…

Hi everyone,

If you're a mother of a young daughter then I'm sure you'll know just how much they love to dress up.

Instead of buying another princess/fairy dress I decided to make one using the top of one of my daughter's old dresses, and fabric from her bedroom valance * which hadn't been used in about a year *.

What made this dress quite different is that I made an overlay - or apron - to wear over the dress. It was made out of pale pink silk…