by Maeri | Jun 12, 2017 | Random_stuff
Once every few months I receive a call or an email that goes something like this: “My Mom was a lifelong crafter and has died and we are cleaning out her crafting stuff. We don’t know what to do with it and wondered if you might like it?”. I hate the...
by Maeri | Mar 18, 2017 | Sewing
“Can I sew a straight line?” – if I had a pound for every time I was asked that question that almost all beginner sewers want to know. And when we teach workshops, we love to share tips that we use because we know other people like a bit of help...
by Maeri | Feb 14, 2017 | Crafting, Sewing, Uncategorized
I’m not sure if you will have seen the rumors about the Great British Sewing Bee on social media over the last week, but it looks like it may be no more. The reason for the potential cancellation hasn’t been very clear or forthcoming, but after four...
by Maeri | Feb 8, 2017 | Family, Travel, Video
I am about to take some much-needed R and R to give the creative juices a chance to regenerate (as a matter of fact, next month at this time I will be in Vermont, sitting on my parents porch with a very cold beer!). This blog post is a bit different than the normal...
by Maeri | Jan 31, 2017 | bias binding, Classes, Dressmaking, Sewing, Uncategorized
When I first started to make my own binding many years ago, it was more out of necessity than anything else. The binding that I could buy was, to put it simply, awful. It was always in wide range of three colours and was the texture of starched linen. When you took it...
