This blog has been poorly….. and I’ve not been able to find anyway of correcting the issues with it. So, after much heart searching, editing and hair pulling the blog for Gone to Earth has moved to a new place. It’s here Gone To Earth all shiny and new, so it would lovely if you’d [...]
Beautiful fabrics and beautiful patterns… Amy Butler now as quite a catalogue of beautiful sewing patterns suited to different levels of sewing skills. There are sewing patterns for bags, appropriate for all different needs. There are all kinds of gorgeous, versatile and extremely stylish sewing patterns for skirts, tunics, halter tops and sun tops and [...]
I acquired this book a few weeks ago. It crept into my Amazon basket I’m not entirely sure how. (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ) The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making 15 Projects inspired by Everyday Beauty by Jane Brocket I really connect with this book. There is an uncomplicated, calmness about her [...]
Fabrics aren’t the only things that Anna Maria Horner fills with saturated, effervescent colour. A box of her latest patterns for the shop all wrapped in intense lime green tissue paper and sealed with pink stickers. There’s the Evening Empire Dress sewing pattern with four different construction options. You can mix up your fabrics in [...]
Sorry to be showing such an ugly photograph….. this magnetic snap has worn away the bag lining. Now I remember why I always apply magnetic snaps this way …. I’ve had this bag for ages. I like this bag, I use this bag everyday and now it’s …. defunct….nothing I can do with it apart [...]
Who doesn’t love pincushions? Essentially every little pincushion has a functional role to play in the sewing room. It valiantly holds onto those sharp finger pricking pins, pin heads, decorative or otherwise pointing upwards so that they are easy to grab hold of when you next need to hold your sewing in place. Somehow, though [...]
If you’ve never come across Lamifix before. This is it. It’s made by Vilene and it’s part of their Creatives range. It’s a transparent ‘film’ which you fuse to fabric and gives it a wipeable surface….. turns it into something a bit like an oilskin except you don’t need any special sewing machine feet to [...]
There’s some beautiful sewing being added to the Flickr group at the moment, so, as I haven’t mentioned it for a while I thought I’d share some of the lovely things that are being added. (Made by Birgitta of Birgitta Designs – her Folksy shop is here A lovely little outfit for spring and summer [...]
Here is a pretty little badge that I’ve been given by Andrea of Indigo Blue. Thank you!! And you know what has to happen now don’t you? I need to pass it along….Some of these blogs I read regularly and others are new to me but they’re all places I like to spend time. Kitty’s [...]
I haven’t really mentioned LOVE yet have I … no don’t run away this isn’t going to be one of those cringeworthy conversations you might have with your teenage children. Although I am a little trepidatious (I think I made that word up) about what spam is going to hit my blog now! Love is [...]
