This is my first blog this month as I’ve been away on holiday with my family. We had lots of fun in the snow and arrived home totally exhausted!! Now we are home winter is on the way out (almost) and, as we are rapidly heading towards Easter, I decided to dig out a project I […]
workshops and classes
Our Day Out
I am on a bit of a mission at the moment to explore, and learn from experiencing, new techniques and different crafts. I am calling it a ‘gap year’ and combining it with celebrating #my50thyear!! This week, my mission found myself and my lovely friend Karen (who came occasionally to the shop in Tadcaster to run […]
Crazy Lazy Daisy Cats
Just thought I would share something I did last week. This little project has been hanging around since the summer when I did some insane embroidery whilst on holiday. I was in need of a new make-up bag so decided to make one for myself. Having routed out some suitable contrasting fabrics and a zip […]
Workshops Past and Present
Before Christmas I came across some photographs from workshops that we ran from the shop in previous years. This was one of my favourite things to do in the shop. Although they took a lot of planning and organisation, it was always a great buzz to have a room full of people all getting creative […]
Fantastic Fairy Lights
This week I have been back to the lovely little farm shop and campsite at Colton near York, which was where I attended the Indigo workshop recently. This time the workshop took place over a couple of evenings and was run by designer maker Joanna Coupland who showed us how to make some pretty fairy […]
Free Motion Embroidery Class
Having really loved the last class I attended at York School of Sewing where I learnt the basics of patchwork and quilting, I decided it would surely be a good idea to try out the Free Motion Embroidery day that was on offer last Friday. Free motion embroidery is basically making pictures using your sewing […]
Look holes- and now it’s a Bunny Bag
Karen has been catching the knitting bug… ”When I was at Needlecase teaching the last Sew it’s Friday Garden Patch embroidery earlier this month Judith showed us some gorgeous Easter Bunny Bags she had made. Having then written a free knitting pattern for them several of us were tempted to have a go so Judith […]