Crafty News — Handmade sewing

Good morning lovelies, the sun is shining here and its beginning to feel a bit more like summer! Today I have this peachy little bear to share with you, sent in by Amy who used the Patchwork Bear Sewing Pattern. She told me... "I've never made bears before, it really is a good pattern to get a nice result. I started by making one for my baby out of one of my late fathers shirts so that he had a bit of grandad to keep. Then my nephews and niece wanted them, after that I set up a little Facebook...

Hello lovelies, stuck at home as we all are once again, today I thought I'd chat to you from a more personal perspective and give you a little insight into where I get some of my creative inspiration from... it goes back a long, long way!When I was a small girl just starting school, I was entered into a strange and experimental reading program called the Initial Teaching Alphabet or ITA. To simplify, it was a modified alphabet formed of slightly different letter symbols used to spell words phonetically in order to make reading for infants easier to learn -...