Ferns and Tales

🥕 Veggie Patch Needle Book Tutorial

I feel this is the longest tutorial I've written, but not because it's incredibly complex - I was trying my best to cover as much detail, as possible.

This is one of my favourite designs, and I really wanted to make it accessible to everyone to make or simply to be inspired by.

This is a tiny tapestry I’ve made based on prompts from my instagram followers.

I like to think of it as a small community project.

I tried to think what each individual tile would symbolise specifically for me:

Chicken: daring to be different, plus chicken legs always makes me think of a Baba Yaga’s hut which is a symbol in itself of a border between two worlds

Sunflower: for me personally, it has a sense of an approaching tragedy, but mixed with hope

Ghost: ghostly presence of spiritual guidance

Snail: slowing down + immigration

Tea: my favourite drink, my grounding comfort

Another tapestry, but in a different colourway.

🍓 Strawberry Badge Tutorial🍓 [link]

I’ve completely refreshed one of my older tutorials because it felt like the right moment to share more gentle reminders about peace. In times like these, I think we all need small messages out in the world that help us remember how precious - and irreplaceable - peace truly is.

🐰 Felt Watering Can Tutorial 🐰

Save it for later or make it this season. Make it in spring colours if you live in the Northern hemisphere or embrace autumn hues if you're a Southerner.

Putting all my remaining vintage craft supplies and wares on sale - 30% off.

Giving these pieces a second life has always felt important to me, keeping beautiful things in use, out of landfill, and back in the hands of people who will appreciate them. But right now I don't have the funds to keep going with this, besides I'm focussing more on digital items in my shop.

Seems, like this year has been so far about little tiles and collages made with them.

The top one is the result, the bottom - my original draft. Had to tweak it a bit to make it work on felt.

Spent a few days this week trying to bring all my tutorials on etsy to the same style and formatting - so, it's easier for customers to navigate. It was a colourful mess tbh.

Did reflect a bit on how much I've learned through the time being on etsy and actively crafting for living. It's obviously less financially rewarding now than it's ever been, but I continue in hope that slow crafting might help a soul or two. It helped me to navigate a difficult period in my life, so maybe it can help others.

🐇 While I'm still working on the full tutorial for these pretties (felt watering cans), I've listed some of the finished ones in my etsy store.

They're cute as seasonal decor or if you have a little one, they're great for pretend play and storing sweet treats. Since I'm not planning on making more (after releasing the tutorial), these are one off and very reasonably priced (if not to say very underpriced).

Loved doing this little tapestry, and had no idea it will turn out to be so lovely! I'm biased, but I kinda love it a lot.

Would you like to work with me?

If you’re an eager and willing sewist, wanting to get involved - drop me a line on [email protected]

🌼 The project: felt watering can ✂️ Supplies: your own 🤷‍♀️ Skill level: any 📜Tutorial: PDF tutorial with detailed instructions and images 🧵Sew the project by 𝟏𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

Finished the beaded curtain for my sweet niece

🦢🎀 💕

Random weekly things:

🦢 Refreshing a beaded curtain for my niece and decided to add an applique of swans (she loved swans) for the top part. Used my beautiful thrifted ribbons and trims to adorn the heart and the swans.

Still waiting for the bead delivery, so I can show you the final result. After-though: why, oh why, did I decide to use linen for the base - it looks soooo messy and wrinkly!

The Life of Chuck dir. Mike Flanagan

Starting 2026 with some repetitive cross stich froggies. Really needed some comforting work while it's too hot to knit in summer, so came up with these cute frog patterns based on the designs from my needle books.

Came upon the set of frames in an opshop, so I thought they're meant to be ✌️🐸🐸✌️(even though I've planned something more elaborate initially).

The initial straw hat frog was a bit short for the 10x15 frame, so I've revised it to fit the exact size - the pattern is for to the new size (also, changed the colour of the frame around it - feel, like green will work better).

I've had some dye kicking around, so I've dyed the aida canvasses with what I had, so obviously, the colour combo is to fit just that.

Feel free to use the patterns to embroider your own, if you like this kind of jam.

Anul Nou care n-a fost (The New Year That Never Came) 2024, dir. Bogdan Mureșanu

One of the best movies I've seen in a while. I feel we all need hope right now, and it encompasses it so perfectly. It starts off really small in the very beginning - just a tiny glimpse of hope for a new beginning, and then grows into a spectacular march of hope, peace and human undefeated resistance through small acts.