Do you love sewing small quilty projects? Is embroidery, patchwork, English paper piecing and felt sewing your thing? Or have you always wanted to try these techniques but you weren’t sure where to start? I’d love to invite you to the Pretty Stitches Club! What’s It All About? I’m so excited to announce that I’ve started the Pretty Stitches Club…
Getting crafty is always fun, especially when it’s an easy project that even the kids can make! This tutorial will show you my simple method for creating holly ornaments using beautiful wool felt and felt balls from My Felt Lady. Read on to find out how! You Will Need 100% merino wool felt in your favourite colours. I used rose…
I’ve enjoyed making these simple scrappy Christmas Baubles for years. But I’ve recently had a lot of people asking how I made them. They are such a quick and easy project to put together. There’s no sewing required, you only need the tiniest fabric scraps and they’re a perfect holiday craft to try with the kids. If you’d like to…
This is just a quick post to let you know that I shared a little bit about my style and my process when chatting with Susan, so if you’d like to get a little ‘behind the scenes’ view into the Molly and Mama world, I’d love for you to take a listen. Use the button below to listen, or check…
Christmas creeps up on me every year, despite my plans to be more organised and to plan out my Christmas sewing more effectively. Do you feel the same way? So this year, I thought I would create a list of all of my Christmas tutorials and patterns so I could choose my favourites. And then it occurred to me that…
Ali from Arabesque Scissors and I were chatting recently about all of our beautiful fabric scraps that are too precious to throw away. Rather than leave them hiding in buckets and bins, we’ve decided to host an Instagram challenge in October 2021, to look at new and fun ways to make the most of all of those special treasures. Our…
When fabric bundles are delivered to my doorstep, it’s a pretty amazing day! Riley Blake Designs recently sent me the latest fabric collection by Minki Kim called Hidden Cottage. I have always loved Minki’s style and her fabric collections are always an eclectic mix of florals, tiny prints and geometric mixers. She’s also really adventurous when choosing her colour palettes…
A little while back, Danni from Eppiflex sent me some of her laser cut, plastic, English paper piecing (EPP) templates to play with. What a fantastic product! I only ever recommend things I really love using myself, so I’m thrilled to let you know how terrific they were to work with. Eppliflex templates are available in a huge range of…
Melanie from Hello Melly Designs has created the loveliest new fabric collection with Riley Blake Designs. Called ‘Primrose Hill‘, it’s named for the birthplace of Agnes Arber, the first female botanist in the Royal Society in England. Melanie explains that the collection “plays homage to all the lovely ladies helping us to understand and fully appreciate the beauty all around…
It’s so exciting when a parcel of fabric shows up at your door. I knew that Riley Blake Designs was sending me the new ‘Carnaby Collection‘ of Liberty quilting cotton to play with, but it’s difficult to know how a collection will truly look until you get to see it with your own eyes. Let me just say that Carnaby…