Don’t think, just do it!

School holidays (which ended here in Victoria a week ago) coincided with me finishing a big editing job and gave me the opportunity to spend the time with Meg, just enjoying myself. I really wanted to make something big, and had a yen to do some sewing, so I started poring over blog posts and books [...]

How to turn a scarf into a shopping bag in four easy steps

My friend Linda put me on to the coolest way to make a re-usable shopping bag the other day. Of course, Japanese people have been using this method for about five hundred years, so you might well know about it, but in case you don’t, watch the video below to see how to tie three different [...]

First project for the day

Here is this morning’s project – a pencil case for one of Meg’s friends at school.
I love sewing in the morning – don’t know why I don’t do more of it…
The basic pattern for this little bag came from a tutorial I found through Craftster. It originated on a site called Drago[knit]fly and can be found here. It [...]