Finished February with the cracker foundation paper pieced block.
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Tag: Sewing
Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing Part 7 – Free Pattern Available
Moving on from sewing up and down, this week we will be going for some diagonals – ground breaking! Lol ;)
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Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing Part 6 – Free Pattern Available
For this week’s foundation paper pieced block, we will be creating the blocks in a box block – not easy to say fast!
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Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing Part 5 – Free Pattern Available
This week I will be sharing with you the three log cabin foundation paper pieced block.
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Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing Part 2 – Free Pattern Available
Excited to bring your part two of the Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing series today by showing you the Economy Patch.
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Fun with Foundation Paper Piecing Part 1 – Free Pattern Available
Another exciting new blog post and video series starting for your today featuring one of my favourite sewing techniques, foundation paper piecing.
There’s even a free pattern to download and use if you want to sew-along with me.
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It’s BOTMing Time! Also, eating out and mini-cows galore.
Somehow another month has rolled around which means I get to have some stitchy fun – like I need an excuse – with this month’s Block Of The Month. Come see what I have been snipping and stitching when you have a mo.
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A Quick Look At This Months Bottom, And A Baby Cow Is Born!
For this months sewing project I decided to keep it simple so that I can practice at taking my time and not rushing/bumbling my way through. I also made the decision to change things up and go a bit old school.
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A Bit Of A BOTM, But Probably Not The One You Were Expecting
You may recall that back in January – which seems so long ago now – I started out a mission to do a quilt block a month using the Scan N Cut. Well, I did get something quilty made this month but it wasn’t exactly “on plan”.
Come take a look …
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Finishing The January BOTM Adventure, And A Boob Or Two
Today marks the end of Januarys adventure creating a decorative patchwork quilt block from the pre-designed blocks found in the Scan N Cut machine. Grab a brew and I will update you…
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Mid Month BOTM Update
Fancy a quick catch up on my BOTM adventure…?
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Diving Into Multiple Bottoms – It’ll Make Sense, Honestly.
As part of the efforts to bring more of my sewing adventures to this blog today sees the start of a series of posts that will stretch the entirety of this year and it begins with me revealing my bottom…
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Making A Fabric Face Mask In Less Than 15 Minutes
To Face Mask, or Not To Face Mask – Is It Really A Question? Since this whole virus lark kicked off there has been much natter about ways to protect oneself and oft the topic of face masks crop up. So, I thought I’d put on my rational filter and go check some info out […]
A Quick Teaser
So, in November last year, I stumbled across an awesome product that folks with electronic cutting machines, and perhaps others, are going to LOVE – especially if you want to make wallets or handbags.
I, therefore, set to work testing it with a simple project that I made in Canvas Workspace, cut on my Scan N Cut, hand stitched together and am pleased to be able to share those results …
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Things What I Have Larnt About Machine Embroidery
Well me ducks, this old mucker has been tinkering with his embroidery machine this week and I have certainly learnt a few valuable lessons.
Thought it might be fun to share my efforts …
GENTLEMAN CRAFTER 