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Cloud Craft Felt Giveaway winner
Sorry it has taken me a day or so to announce the winner of the felt giveaway with Cloud Craft – time got away with me rather… But I have now done the draw, and the winner is…… Comment number 7 was...
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Inspiration from Gudrun Sjoden
I wonder if you know the lovely world of Gudrun Sjoden? I’m a big fan and regular customer at their lovely online shop (good news, they have a real shop in London now too!). Today, by complete...
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The winner of the Gudrun bag…
is….. … which just happens to be Susan, of the ace blog Canadian Abroad, one of the fabulous people behind my fave Flickr Swap group Mouthy Stitches. Commiserations to all the unlucky ones… but I do...
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Knickers!
Child of the 70s that I am, for me, the word ‘knickers’ is imbued with a huge amount of snigger-value … when I was a kid it was our swearword of choice, as in, ‘Oh knickers, I forgot my PE Kit’. Seems...
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Blog Tour Book Review: Material World by Perri Lewis
If, like me, you’d expected a book with the subtitle ‘The Modern Craft Bible’, to be a huge compendium of craft skills and techniques, you’re going to be disappointed. Material World is a Bible in the...
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All the winners…
Thanks for being patient… I am just back to working after been totally knocked out by the ‘flu for the last few days… I know there is an awful lot of it going around, I hope you are all getting lucky...
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Celebrating Fair Trade Fortnight with a giveaway!
Tracey from Quilt Me Happy got in touch with me a week or so ago to tell me about her new stock of hand-dyed fair trade fabric from Northern Uganda to add to my Guide to Buying Fair Trade &...
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Country Living Spring Fair 20-24 March – ticket giveaway
I’m very excited to be going (I have a press pass – the excitement!) to the Country Living Spring Fair next week. I hope the weather will be more spring-like by then! I got a big parcel of seeds for...
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Quilt Me Happy giveaway winner
My blog has been busy today… I wonder if it is people checking to see who has won the awesome Quilt Me Happy giveaway? Well, the waiting is over… Which means that the winner is Sarah N – who plans...
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A Moo Giveaway!
Much excitement this morning when the postie finally made it through the snow. Look what arrived – parcels from MOO! I have been buying my business cards from MOO.com for a long time now. So I was...
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The MOO Giveaway Winners
The winner of the main MOO giveaway (some business cards and postcards) is comment number 18: This was left by the lovely Deborah G. Congratulations to you Deborah – I’ll be in touch. The runners up...
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Book Review and Giveaway: Mini Amigurumi by Sara Scales
It’s a long time since I featured crochet on the blog. I haven’t had time to do much recently – in fact, I have a partially written crochet slipper pattern that has been making me feel guilty for quite...
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Weekends and Winners
I had a wonderful weekend, thanks so much for all the lovely comments. I thought you might like the photo I took on Sunday (we had such lovely weather): You can see the window of my third year room on...
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Review of The Knitted Home by Ruth Cross
“Everyone has their own reasons for knitting, but the most unexpected is also the most attractive – it takes time. The quietly meditative process of building something with your own hands is a reason...
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Winner of the Knitted Home by Ruth Cross
Sorry this is a day late, totally forgot yesterday… The winner of the lovely book, The Knitted Home by Ruth Cross (review here), is: Comment number 56 was left by an anonymous reader, far far away in...
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Back with a pop!
I’ve been on my hols (I’ll be boring you with the photos very soon I am sure), and my blog has been a little bit neglected… the good news is that I am going to brighten it up with a pop of colour (and...
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Cloud Craft Felt Giveaway Winner
The winner of the gorgeous felt giveaway from Cloud Craft is: Comment number 43 was left by Chrissie K. Big congratulations to her (I will be in touch by email) and commiserations to everyone else –...
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Cuter than cute sewing kits for you!
I know there are lots of women, who, like me, discovered crafting again when they were expecting their babies. I had an overwhelming urge to make blankets, woolly hats, little shoes, and could not...
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Little Dress Kits Giveaway Winner
Mr Random has spoken! The winner of the Little Dress Kits giveaway is: Comment number 12 was left by Deborah, who chose the little Nurse’s outfit to make for her niece. Congratulations Deborah, I will...
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Review and Giveaway: The Hand-Stitched Home by Caroline Zoob
I was so delighted to be asked to review The Hand-Stitched Home by Caroline Zoob (ISBN: 9781906417932, Jacqui Small), because embroidery and applique takes up a lot of my creative thinking time at the...
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