Tutorial on how to make tube beads


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Over on Pat Winter’s Gatherings Pat has published a step by step illustrated tutorial on how to make tube beads These are quick, cheap and easily made. My daughter was taught how to do them when she was about 8 or 9 years old, so they are even suitable as a craft …

Quilting Video tutorial


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A step by step video tutorial of flying geese block construction was discovered in my bookmarks (yes, I am having a clean out). Anyone interested in scrap quilts or stash busting will find this old tried and true quilt pattern useful. 

A few goodies found browsing the blogs


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Tip Nut has run an article on How to Clean Needlework  Over on Freda’s Hive there is a tutorial for making a Doll house Pot Holder which looks like a good stash busting project. For another stash busting project this tutorial from Craft stylish on How to sew a fabric …

How to stitch a silk ribbon Fargo Rose

After featuring a Fargo rose on some of my crazy quilt blocks, a reader, asked me to write instructions on how work one, so here is a tutorial! This sample of a Fargo Rose is worked using 7mm silk ribbon. First bring you needle through to the front of the fabric. …

How to Transfer Hand Embroidery Patterns to Fabric

When you first start to hand embroider items, or perhaps you have picked up some of my free patterns and want to start stitching, one process that often stumps people is how to transfer hand embroidery patterns to fabric so that you can start to stitch. Here are the 2 …

Tutorials, patterns and freebies for the holiday season


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With December fast approaching and there are tutorials, patterns and freebie downloads all over the net. Over on A Print a Day there are some free Stickers and Tags to download and print off. My to do lists are not very fancy, in fact they are usually on a scrap …

A tutorial on how to crochet a flower


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Recently Linda Permann wrote a tutorial for Craft Stylish, on How to Crochet a Flower. The article illustrates a flower which has been made of standard wool. I am sure anyone interested in freeform crochet will enjoy it. The pattern draws on the tradition of Irish Crochet and as such …