How to make a fussy cut tote bag, a thorough step-by-step sewing tutorial. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Wag Doll

Now, obviously the easy thing to do for my Make It Better…Upcycle Exchange stall, would have been to go out and buy some flowers, or to dig something pretty up from the garden. BUT I still haven’t made my mind up about where buying ‘new’ flowers fits in to the whole Make Do and Mend [...]

This will be done in the free time that I don’t have. The ingredients and materials that I need will be purchased with the money I haven’t got. That’s why I think I need a bit of help. I’m really hoping that somebody out there will have some fabulous ideas. Like this?Read more… Recommended by [...]

I have seen lots of babies with Taggies baby blankets. I thought about buying one for Harri but decided I would try and make one instead. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Mummy and Mimi

Whether you have a good reason to put the flags out or not, bunting is a lovely cheerful edition to any homestead, indoors or outdoors. Here’s how to make it the Make It and Mend It way. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Mumtopia

About a month ago I started a cardie for little Harri. I have been plugging away at it slowly but I found the pattern pretty hard going and had to keep undoing sections. However I am pleased with the end result. Good job she hasn’t grown too much. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Mummy and [...]

Everyone loves to play with cardboard boxes. It’s a well known fact that children get enormous pleasure playing with and up-cycling cardboard boxes into wonderful flying machines, vehicles, buildings, monsters etc Like this?Read more… Recommended by Blue Bear Wood

We decided to make the most of the sunny weather the other day. Baba loves to draw and there is a perfect canvas out on our front garden in the lovely slabbed path that Mr L did a couple of years ago. The best thing was it was hot but this area of our garden [...]

The first thing that caught my eye when browsing for hair accessories to sew on AllFreeSewing was that this one is labelled retro, the second is that it can be made out of denim. Both serious plus points, topped off by the fact that Maureen Wilson of Made by Marzipan (who created this pattern) calls [...]

An exciting message came my way on Facebook just over a month ago from Steph and Nicky at Little Roots Children’s Hair Salon in Hitchin. They had been thinking about revamping a little room at the back of the hair salon and wanted to turn it into the ‘little shop’ selling crafts made by local [...]

So, after an epic amount of procrastination, last night was to be the night that I did some sewing. Child in bed. Husband out. Embellished cushion covers to be made so cushions measured, template created, even the iron was at the ready. And then of course once The Toddler was in bed I realised I’d [...]

Remember when I challenged myself to sew something before 8 May 2013? Well, I did it! Before the deadline and everything! I can’t believe it! I agonised for ages about what to make. I have a tendancy to pick something completely unsuitable for my skill level only to then give up part way through, so [...]

My son has a little soft cuddly frog, so when we were designing the backgrounds for all our personalised kids charts there had to be a picture of a froggy in there somewhere…and there is, on our princess chart background. We have taken that frog out of his home with the princess, and now we [...]

Honestly, in around half an hour, you can have enough gift tags, to last you all year. I use whatever I have in my craft things, so there is no cost at all. I think they more personal and individual than buying gift tags. All you need is to buy either brown paper, or plain [...]

Making your own bias binding is right up there with grating soap. Had I not ordered a few metres from Ebay before Christmas and been mightily disappointed with what I got, and, were I not determined to Make Do and Mend, I would probably not bother. However, the patchwork blanket I’ve been working on for [...]

My friend Michelle (with whom you will remember I have been sharing a market stall recently) and I will be sharing a stall at the Made With Love Arts & Crafts Fair next week. I’m actually looking forward to it. Not least because I’ll be meeting up with a very good friend again who has [...]

Last year I went to Wonderwool Wales with Grandma Flower and Auntie Anthea. When I told my mother about it, she wanted to go so this year she had an early anniversary present and we took her and my father there yesterday. I got a lot of inspiration and a bit frustrated that I didn’t [...]

A paper mache craft Like this?Read more… Recommended by Here come the girls

Pinaddicts challenge I decided to get involved with the Pinaddicts challenge this month, although I am leaving it a little late to join in! My inspiration this time comes from the fact that I cannot find a decent notice board for my kitchen, I don’t have a lot of room, so I wanted something that [...]

It seems like a very long time ago that I blogged about the felt name picture that I made for Mia. I was (and still am) very proud of it, and it sits on her windowsill. As I wrote in that post, one of my next projects was to make a felt name picture for [...]