Category: Sewing Tutorials
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Sewing tutorial: how to make botanical bunting part 2
This post is a continuation from part one of this tutorial, where I explain how to make the crazy patchwork fabric for your bunting pennants. Now read on to find out how to piece them altogether to finish your lovely, vintage-style bunting. You will need: Your patchwork pennants (previously created by following this blog post)…
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Sewing tutorial: how to make botanical bunting part 1
Having recently created a few botanical thread-sketches, I was looking for a project to use them in. So I decided to make some spring bunting with a botanical theme, incorporating crazy quilting techniques with my thread sketches (and using up some fabric scraps along the way!) Brilliant fun. Read on to find out how I…
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How to thread sketch from an existing drawing
The sewing prompt for my Creative Sewing Challenge this month was ‘botanical’. I knew I wanted to do something with those lovely pen illustrations you can find of flowers and plants, so I decided to opt for recreating them as a thread sketch. If you’ve never attempted thread-sketching before then you might want to read…
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Make a small tote bag with children’s artwork
When I was making my Winter Tree Tote, I set my daughter up with her own piece of fabric and paints. Before I knew it, she was working away printing her own little butterfly – how beautiful! So I offered to turn it into her very own mini tote bag. Read on for the full…
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Sewing tutorial: make a dotty daisy bookmark
These bookmarks are so simple to make using embroidery and fabric paints. Even the least confident artist can create a really beautiful result using the end of a paintbrush. An ideal home-made gift for book-lovers, and pretty good scrap-buster project as they require only small rectangles of fabric. Make up a few and Christmas, birthdays…