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Taking the Zinnia out for a spin

I’m on a bit of a roll, bit like buses I guess, nothing for months and then 3 at once. Hopefully my sister won’t read this entry until she get’s her present. If not- then I apologise already that I put your gift on various bits or ground and dirt all over Canterbury. Again this is from the shops blog so a little bit promo esque. There is a few extra things I’ll say, I have difficulty reading…

Sewing with the Ruby

So you have a meter of a lovely piece of lawn for example , but it could be anything really. And you want a super fast sew , that doesn’t require a lot of construction . Meet the Ruby from Made by Rae patterns! I had some beautiful Cotton + Steel Cookie Dough in lawn that I have had sitting in my stash for a couple of years, but only a meter of it. I paired it up with some beautiful linen which…

From Runner to Scout Tee Magic

Hello there. Today is another post from the stores blog. The next one will be too. It would be nice to write one of my ranty blogs soon going on about something or other. But I’m finding less and less time to do anything like that. So Instead your getting a blog about how I transformed some table runners made out of dress making fabric back into a top. It all started off as a table runner. I…

It’s been a while but I’m back

I know I know, it’s been awhile since I’ve put anything and in the mean time quite a lot has happened. I got married (yes I know!), I had birthdays, other weddings, visitors from Australia, finishing quilts, making clothes, the shop is slowly starting to take off and there is a quite a few changes going on at my other job, no more taking it easy. But I have written a whole heap of entries that I…

the geranium in bloom

Well hello! Another rehash of the shop blog! As I nurse my painfully badly bruised knee back to health (thanks Canterbury city council for keeping your walk ways clear of packing tape) here is the one of only 2 May makes I managed this month   Last week we got our first kids pattern in, yay! I find a lot of children’s dress patterns a bit frumpy, a bit ruffled and a bit over the top. The Geranium…

Making the Bettine dress

Hello, it’s been awhile hasn’t it? There’s been lots going on, but if you randomly ask me, whats been happening, I will probably say oh nothing much. I’m behind on all of the wedding prep..like way behind and I will say that I got a some new patterns into the store , a whole 6 of them and it took a massive, massive chunk out of my Sunday to add them all on, cross reference everything, do the…

Well what brought this about? Well I’m (finally) getting married this August, yes this August..that’s not far away in planning terms. As a song once went”money too tight to mention” and this has lead us too the D-I-Y weeding of the century. I’m no stranger to doing parties on the cheap..looks like pintrest, came from e-bay kind of thing. But this is hardcore, multiplied by a thousand. Were going…

Things that still make me homesick

I’ve lived away from home for so long my homesickness for Melbourne is fewer and further in between, but sometimes It flares up. Normally this will happen In January and its cold, wet and miserable in England and I yearn for the big blue skies and northerly winds that burn your face off. Other times , when things feel a bit complicated and I want to go back to a time when I was a lot more baggage…

As it’s Easter I wanted make something using some of the great bunny fabrics we stock, although I couldn’t choose between Ghost bunnies or the Moon bunnies. What I did know was that I wanted to make the Brumby from skirt. It had a zip, so was hesitant (I’ll get onto to later). But I gunned for the ghost bunnies after asking on instagram. For the inside pocket detail I used some of my own stash,…

Im now on etsy!

To Pay pal or not to Pay pal has been a touchy subject when I was building the shop. If I included it, it would have made the website less clean, clunky and difficult as there was no program to automatically include it. But it’s been annoying me that I couldn’t include it . So the easiest way around that was to open up a fabric only store on Etsy. etsy store To make things uncomplicated for now…

Kitty Lacy needs a utility belt.

It was world book day last week, Initially my lil rockette wanted to go to school dressed as Sleeping Beauty, which was a boring idea. So after a thought about what costume I could cobble together in a week I managed to convince her that maybe she could go as Kitty Lacey the hairdresser in the Fairytale Hairdresser series. Im not a massive fan of these books in one sense mainly because of the…

The crafty mastermind shop news

I’m doing free shipping (again) for the UK ONLY over at the Crafty Mastermind’s website this week! Use the code freeshipjoy. Just in time for Mothers Day. Your mum would love some lawn or a brilliant dress pattern.  You can find us here ! www.thecraftymastermind.co.uk You can also check out the blog update on shop website were talking of wish list patterns and cross stitching I have been busy…

Simplest of chic tops

It’s been so long since I blogged about anything! Social media is sucking all of my time up like an evil black hole. I’m still making my mums quilt..but there is a light at the end of that tunnel, but in between I wanted to whip up something fast that I was selling in the shop. I picked probably the easiest thing to make and one of the tops I had on my list of things to do since I went to see…

New post - The hacked skirt.

  I feel like calling this a peasant skirt as I’m sure this is how my grandmother probably constructed skirts in the 50s cause they were too poor to buy stuff. But that wasn’t the origins for this creation. I ripped this off from my Cath Kidson skirt that I bought 2 years ago. Every time I wear these I always get compliments, even once during an interview. It looked like a simple…

I feel like calling this a pesant skirt as im sure this is how my grandmother probably constucted skirts in the 50s cause they were too poor to buy stuff. But that wasnt the origin of this. I ripped this off from my Cath Kidson skirt that i bought 2 years ago. Everytime I wear these I always get compliments, even once while i was interviewing. I bought this fabric at least a year and a half ago,…

Farewell Thin White Duke

  For  all the hours  I spent learning to play guitar along to your albums For all the rotations of the turntable  and for all the clicks of the ipods and all the twists of cassette tapes For all the sing-alongs wether in the kitchen, the car, the shower, in public at bars or arm in arm in the second row of your concert For all the hours watching your music videos For all of the hours spent…