How to make bunting And now for something different. It might be obvious from this blog that I can’t bear to waste and have a desperate need to use up left overs. We have Christmas in our summers here in South Africa. I was feeling a fiesta coming on and we have...
Cushion cover tutorial So today’s item is not one you can wear. It’s a scatter cushion cover. I used different coloured fabrics for the back and front to use up perfectly good left-over fabric. If it’s a standard scatter cushion, the dimensions are...
Easy unlined curtains Yesterday I started with instruction for this project. Find the instructions – here. Here are the balance of the instructions for the curtains. As you can see I used clip-on tabs which hook into the curtain rings. The curtain rod was placed...
Curtain tutorial This is not an item that can be worn but these curtains were dead easy to make. I measured the window area and determined the drop or length the curtains had to be. Then I took the width and since I wanted two curtains, divided the width in half. For...
Greeting card tutorial Today’s item is not exactly something one can wear. But it does require sewing. In the picture are cards that I make out of offcuts of ribbon, tape, paper and fabric. Anything really. I use plain white A4 paper and fold it in half and fold...
