Well hello my lovely Peeps, and welcome to the Attic24 Blanket Fest. No particular reason for this little celebration of blankety, hooky goodness today, I’m doing it Just Because. Just because when I was photographing my sweet flower granny blanket…
DIY Toy Pasta and Meatballs for Pretend Play – The Craft Train
Miss K, at age 5, is still very fond of her toy kitchen. She has lots of pretend food to cook, such as rock cakes, toilet roll fish and even the glitter sponge cakes we made a long time ago are still going strong. Sometimes she doesn’t even need food that looks real, ordinary round seed pods become chocolate balls, a few sea shells become biscuits and she is happy as happy can be
Couching with BERNINA Braiding Foot #21 and BERNINA Bulky Overlock Foot #12C
One of the most versatile techniques for embellishing fabric, couching is a technique borrowed from hand embroidery. It’s an easy … More
Entitled Woman Mistakes A Customer As An Employee And Gets Awfully Close To Them
In everyday life, chance encounters can lead to unexpected twists and turns. Our story begins with one such encounter, as a person, known as OP, embarks on a post-Christmas shopping spree, armed with gift cards and a desire to acquire a pair of coveted AirPods. Little did OP know that this seemingly ordinary shopping trip
50 ‘Moms For A Minute’ Chip In To Help Anyone In Need Of A Loving Mother Figure
American adventurer Christopher McCandless, who the movie Into The Wild is based on, is attributed with the phrase "Happiness is only real when shared", and I guess the same can be said about a lot of other emotions, too. We humans are social creatures, and our lives are heavily dependent on the connections we form with one another. Out of those, arguably the most important one is with our mothers. However, not everyone has one.
DIY Natural Deodorant Bar (with Organic Ingredients)
Worried about the ingredients in conventional deodorants? Try this DIY natural deodorant recipe bar made with organic ingredients that actually works.
A Cheap Easy Way To Store Lace
If you are a collector of lace then this is a must see ! Over the years I have collected tonnes of antique lace. It is one of the...
Making Historical replicas: The Frog Purse (or: Leggy Egg)
This is post about a year old project which was fantastic fun, but which I am only just getting around to blogging about! I cannot recall when I first saw a frog purse on the historical makers blog…
How to sew thin leather easily with a regular sewing machine
Leather is very likely the first material used by humans for sewing. How difficult can it be to sew leather? At a first glance – very difficult, or at least that’s what I thought before actually doing it. But after I finished my first serious project I realized that sewing leather is not more complicated than sewing denim for example. On the contrary, because leather doesn’t fray, doesn’t need washing, pressing, doesn’t shrink etc. I made quite a few projects with leather, made some mistakes during the process and discovered so much by trial and error that now I can…
