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Author: Lyn Butler
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Oh wow…as a left hander this made my day…anyone know where I can get one,please?
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What do you do..you’ve lost your mojo and can’t get that feeling back. I’ve been patching for many years and this seems to happen occasionally..so what do you do? You have all the equipment and more than enough fabric and you’re probably feeling a little guilty that you should be getting on with something..but you…
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I can hardly believe that Easter is nearly upon us, it doesn’t seem five minutes since it was Christmas! I usually like to make a little something for our smallest granddaughter as she isn’t a chocolate egg lover. This was made a few Easters ago and you can find the pattern here… …
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I love hearts…do you? A heart to me means ‘love’, that sounds very schmaltzy I know, but without love where would we be? Love can be the happiest and saddest time for some, sadly we all remember who said ‘whatever love is’ when asked if they were in love? With Valentine’s Day fast…
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Well, Christmas 2018 is over. It’s a long time coming and then it’s over in a flash, hope it was a good one for you. We’re not into celebrating the new year in, but do like to reflect on the nice things that happened in the year gone by. 2018 saw a few firsts…
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We, as the so called Blogeratti, decided to hold a retreat…and I wasn’t too sure about going to start with. As the excitement built between the girls and of course our young man, Jonathan, who put the wheels in motion for the venue, it started to grow on me. When hubby offered to pay, my…
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Mmm..Makower have come up trumps again with this super fun range of fabric called Dragonheart. Makower Dragonheart In 100% cotton the quality is great and is really lovely to work with. This enchanting design with castles and knights in shining armour, yielding swords and shields, it is sure to please both boys and girls with…
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I expect quite a few of us sell at Craft Fayres and what better time to do this than at Xmas, when we know everyone will be Xmas shopping. A few years ago our local museum invited me to sell some of my patchwork products at their annual xmas fayre. I jumped at the chance…
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When https://ukqu.co.uk asked for a couple of us to review some Natural History design fabrics from The Craft Cotton Company , I didn’t hesitate to respond. Our granddaughter, like most children, is just mad about dinosaurs, she also has her 4th birthday coming up, so an ideal opportunity to make something special. But what?…
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Here we are at the end of a beautiful summer and what a summer it has been. If you’ll allow me a little self indulgence ( I promise a patchwork item at the end), I personally have had a memorable time as we celebrated our Golden wedding anniversary in August, and it was a very…
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Stained glass is one of my favourite methods of patchwork. When I first did one many moons ago I used the traditional method of pinning the bias all round before stitching the edges down, I remember how many pin stabs while doing this method. As with everything, improvements to the technique were introduced, and now…